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The German Question, seemingly dormant for many years, resurfaced with surprising vehemence during the early 1980s. The period of détente marked by West Germany’s Ostpolitik appeared to have laid the German Question to rest, but it reemerged with the end of détente and the onset of a new Cold War that was characterized by renewed efforts on the part of the United States to contain the Soviet Union. The German Question, raised and repeatedly posed during the first Cold War, seemed to receive a new impetus as the second Cold War set in.
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Schweigler, G. (1989). German Questions or The Shrinking of Germany. In: Larrabee, F.S. (eds) The Two German States and European Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19879-5_4
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