On the Scene: Two Times Two Germanies

Munich

THE European countries are muddling along, suffering the pains of growing together, but also left directionless by the end of the Cold War and weakened by a spiritual malaise. But within this general drift Germany has its own peculiar problems, which derive not only from the Nazis and World War II but before that, as George F. Kennan said so correctly, from the outcome of World War I, the source of all our evils.