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Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that made possible peaceful reunification in 1990. Based on extensive research including his personal papers, international archives, and interviews with his contemporaries, this book traces Brandt's nearly lifelong efforts toward the full reintegration of Germany into the community of European nations. Here, Benedikt Schoenborn gives us a Brandt who passionately insisted on the interdependence of German history, reunification, and a lasting European peace, while remaining strategically and intellectually adaptable in a way that exemplified the "imaginativeness of history."
Benedikt Schoenborn is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tampere in Finland. He has won the French Duroselle Prize and the Swiss AAI Prize for his book La mesentente apprivoisee: de Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969 (Paris 2007), and he holds doctorates from the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne.
List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Roads to ReconciliationChapter 2. The First Step: Coexistence (1955-1966)Chapter 3. Projecting East-West Reconciliation (1966-1969)Chapter 4. Summit Meetings as Icebreakers (1969-1971)Chapter 5. Developing East-West Frameworks (1971-1974)Chapter 6. Maintaining East-West Contacts (1974-1992)ConclusionBibliographyIndex
"This is a valuable addition to the literature on Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik. Schoenborn demonstrates that the spectre of the Nazi past was always present, and that reconciliation was a much more ambitious aim than detente." Gottfried Niedhart, University of Mannheim