Germany from Partition to Reunification Aerial views of Frankfurt am Main, 1945 and in the 1970s Germany from Partition to Reunification

A Revised Edition of The Two Germanics since 1945 Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.

Yale University Press

New Haven and London "Inventory" by Giinter Eich (trans. David Young) is reprinted here courtesy of Oberlin Col- lege: Valuable Nail, Field Translation Series 5, trans. Stuart Friebart, David Walker, and David Young (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1981), pp. 41-42. "The Solution" by Bertolt Brecht is reprinted here courtesy of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.: BertoJt Brecht Poems, ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim (London: Methuen, 1976), p. 440. Photo credits: German Information Center, New York: ii, iii, 4, 5, 17, 26, 78, 79, 88, 91, 92, 96, 107, 112, 119, 140, 143, 151, 154, 177, 183, 185, 194, 216, 237, 249. Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August e.V., Berlin, 90, 91. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 94. Landesbildstelle Berlin, 235. Patrick Piel/Gamma Liaison, 236. Copyright © 1992 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Set in Melior type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc., Orwigsburg, Penn. Printed in the United States of America by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr. Germany from partition to reunification / Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: The two Germanics since 1945. 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-300-05345-2 (alk. paper). — ISBN 978-0-300-05347-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Germany—History—1945- . 2. Germany— History—Unification, 1990. I. Turner, Henry Ashby. Two Germanics since 1945. II. Title. DD257.T87 1992 943.087—dc20 92-15192 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

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