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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Germany's Security Model: Demilitarized Unification

Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When news of the fall of the Berlin Wall reached the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, on November 9, 1989, all of its members stood to their feet to sing the national anthem. One day later, after it was apparent that East and West Germany was on the road to a secure and peaceful reunification, the mayor of West Berlin, Walter Momper, echoed many Germans when he said: "We Germans are today the happiest people in the world."(1) But if...

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