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East Germany
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...this is a two-fold country, and, what's more, everyone in it is two-fold, one part possibility and the other its refutal
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― The Quest for Christa T.
― The Quest for Christa T.
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I find it difficult to say whether the leadership's 'second echelon' could have preserved the German Democratic Republic. Helmut Kohl later told me he had never believed that Egon Krenz was capable of getting the situation under control. I do not know — we are all wiser after the event, as the saying goes. For my part, I must admit I briefly had a faint hope that the new leaders would be able to change the course of events by establishing a new type of relations between the two German states — b
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― Memoirs
― Memoirs
