Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-611) and index.
Contents
Prologue: European Question -- I. German Answers -- II. Ostpolitik -- III. Bonn-Moscow-Berlin -- IV. Germany and Germany -- V. Beyond the Oder -- VI. A Second Ostpolitik -- VII. German Unification -- VIII. Findings.
Summary
From West Germany's "buying free" of people from East German prisons to the summit conversations between Kohl and Gorbachev, from the German minorities in Eastern Europe to the Bonn government's attitude toward opposition movements such as Poland's Solidarity, every important facet of the policy of Ostpolitik is explored.