Volume 32, Number 1 · January 31, 1985
Which Way Will Germany Go?
By Timothy Garton Ash
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Wo Deutschland Liegt: Eine Ortsbestimmung
by Günter Gaus
Hoffmann und Campe (Hamburg), 288 pp., DM 29.80
Die Fernen Nachbarn: Erfahrungen in der DDR
by Klaus Bölling
Stern Buch (Hamburg), 304 pp., DM 22.80
From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review
by Rudolf Bahro, translated by Gus Fagan, by Richard Hurst
Verso (distributed by Schocken), 238 pp., $9.50 (paper)
Cassandra
by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 305 pp., $17.95
Die Deutsche Geschichte Geht Weiter
by Richard von Weizsäcker
Siedler (Berlin), 318 pp., DM 36
Fighting for Hope
by Petra Kelly, introduction by Heinrich Böll, translated by Marianne Howarth
South End Press, 121 pp., $7.00 (paper)
Judith
by Rolf Hochhuth
Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Reinbek bei Hamburg), 264 pp., DM 25
Schwarzenberg
by Stefan Heym
Bertelsmann (Munich), 310 pp., DM 34
The Wall Jumper
by Peter Schneider, translated by Leigh Hafrey
Pantheon, 139 pp., $11.95
The 'German question' as it has been posed with renewed intensity in Western capitals over the last five years is really two questions. First, is the Federal Republic still a fully committed and reliable member of the Western alliance? Do not its distinctive foreign policy toward East Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union (Deutschlandpolitik and Ostpolitik), its harking back to détente, and its disagreements with the Reagan administration reflect a revived yearning for reunification, and Germany's historic, geopolitical propensity for maneuvering between East and West?
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