Deutschland Uber Alles?
Michael Burleigh examines how the impact of German unification has affected the evaluation of the country's history from both sides of the former divide.
Earlier this year, the trustees administering state firms in the former GDR froze the account of the Amsterdam-based foundation which has been editing the works of Marx and Engels on behalf of the Soviet and East German Communist parties. Gregor Gysi, the chairman of the PDS, the revamped Communist party, protested that 'even the scientific and cultural achievements of Marx and Engels are not immune from acts of revenge', a claim which would have carried more weight had the PDS sought the necessary permission to funnel 9 million pounds of former SED funds to the Amsterdam foundation, whose forty-odd employees now face the sack.
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