Vol. 20 · No. 2 · Issue 63 · Summer 2002 · pp. 1-48 (48)
What Remains?The Political Culture of an Unlucky Birth
A. James McAdams
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Vol. 20 · No. 2 · Issue 63 · Summer 2002 · pp. 1-48 (48)What Remains?The Political Culture of an Unlucky Birth A. James McAdams
AbstractThe future political culture of eastern Germany and, with it, the relationship between unified Germany's once divided populations will depend heavily upon how all Germans respond to a distinctive fact about the east. The region experienced not one but, counting the German Democratic Republic (GDR), to separate eras of dictator-ship. This fact can be, and has been, understood in two different ways, with significantly different implications in each case. The first is the perspective of the victim. . . . [T]he other way of viewing the GDR's citizenry has been to treat it as at least partly responsible for its fate. |