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The Black Zero might have been shattered. But how vindicated Merkel had been

Thrift was her watchword.” – Angela Merkel

Germany has an insurance policy that others do not possess.

The sense of nationhood the Germans built after the war is
based on the horror and shame of the Nazi legacy, and the lessons that needed to be learnt

A CDU under Merz's leadership would have given more defi-
nition.

'I don't think about my role in history. I do my job??

Now that sense of stability from the outside has gone. Indeed, many around the world are looking to the

Germany 'needs to write a new chapter.'

More than half of German households are members of
the ADAC, the automobile association.

A s the radioactive
cloud swept across the continent, Germans went to great lengths t o deal with the contamination.

The protesters' success a t Wyhl brought the issue to a wider
public and inspired the creation of citizens' groups wherever a
nuclear project was mooted o r whenever a transport o f nuclear
waste was planned. I t is this link between anti-nuclear and the
wider environmental agenda that makes the German approach
so distinctive.

the many frus-
trations of life there, the worst was the Sabbath: "The great tyrants
have all died; only i n England one lives on - the English Sunday.'

The Dog Doesn't Eat the Dog
A society that sticks together

Anyone who lived i n the East remembers their towns disfigured
by above-ground pipes and shrouded in black smog.

Her son
teaches politics in the city. 'He's as multicultural as you like, she
admits. 'He doesn't understand the concerns o f our generation

We ll go our own way

We are all searching for our identity

The wall in the mind

عنف فرقة الجيش الأحمر كان تعبيرًا عن غضب جيل الطلاب تجاه الماضي النازي، لكنه ساهم في تعزيز الأمن وإعادة تشكيل وعي المجتمع الألم

The violence of the Red Army Faction was an expression of the student generation’s anger at the Nazi past, but it contributed to strengthening security and reshaping German society’s

رغم العنف والإرهاب الذي صاحب حركة الطلاب في ألمانيا خلال أواخر الستينيات والسبعينيات، فقد أدت هذه الحركة إلى ولادة مجتمع ألماني أكثر تساؤلاً وأقل خضوعاً، وأثرها ما زال قوياً حتى اليوم.

كيف تحوّلت أزمة الحصار والتهديد في برلين إلى نقطة انطلاق لبناء دولة ديمقراطية قوية في ألمانيا الغربية.

كيف ادى حصار برلين الى نقطة تحول لتكون دولة حديثة

The USSR
refused money for itself and for the new Eastern European bloc
that had come under its wing.
رفض الروس لتقديم اي ممساعدة سواء لنقسه او الكتلة الاوربيه

تاريخ الألمان هو تاريخ من التطرّفات.
فهو يحتوي على كل شيء باستثناء الاعتدال، وخلال ألف عام عاش الألمان كل شيء باستثناء الحالة الطبيعي

The history
o f the Germans i s a history of extremes. I t contains everything
except moderation, and i n the course o f a thousand years the
Germans have experienced everything except normality.

For the past half-century Germany has engaged in an
act o f atonement that has dominated all aspects o f life, with
everything referenced back t o the Nazi era.
االهيمنة على مختلف جوانب الحياة وربطها بالنازية