To be to be seen by the mainstream of dermont and Mainstream Media to just be part of germany and be seen as like part of it and not the. Were sort of cast off fly over country but i just want to ask one thing about a point that is often asserted in connection with Political Attitudes and support for the f. T. Namely the idea that it reflects the communist area era socialization of order germans and even a kind of nostalgia for an easier time do you think thats true yeah definitely and i also think that germans werent good democrats in the fiftys they werent good democrats in the sixtys they had the economic wonder thats the tough one a and thats how that went on until in the seventys and so thats how they became democrats of because the u. S. Forced it upon them and then they had a good good experience with demarc democracy so its stuck sort of you know to put it in a nutshell but and that didnt and that didnt happen in eastern germany obviously they got all this money they got all th
Has lived in poland for 5 years he actively supports german polish Economic Cooperation but he didnt expect this particular debate topic to resurface. I was surprised when i heard about polands demands for german reparations and i was seriously shocked when i saw that many of my friends young poles who dont sympathise with the government saying that they could understand why the government wants this. Why they feel that germany has not yet built sufficiently with what they did to poland. 50 times more sauce oldtown is a symbol of german guilt the city was completely destroyed during the 2nd world war and then rebuilt without any help from germany now after almost 80 years berlin is being handed the bill a Parliamentary Committee has been working on a draft for the government so they can finally put this topic to rest even though for decades they had already considered it closed. Doesnt like the fact were talking about reparations we understand that. But for us the ease and important to
German initials a. F. D. With send shock waves that could up end politics not only in regional capitals but also in berlin nearly 30 years after the fall of the wall it looks as though east and west could be growing further apart rather than together. Why that is is our topic this week here on quadriga and here are our guests. Works for she go online she says German Society is just beginning to deal with the disappointment and trauma eastern germans experienced after the fall of the wall many people felt their experiences had been ignored the a. F. P. Feeds off these feelings. And its a pleasure to welcome my colleague Michele Knight shes chief Political Editor here at t w she says most of all these elections are about what options will be on the table when i think of americas final Coalition Government leaves office and were very pleased to have them back on the show hes an author and commentator for the daily newspaper. He says a generation after the end of nazi. Germany experienced