Truth2: Would the Founding Fathers be shocked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of Germany? Not at all. They planned for it!
9, November, 2009
In 1989 leaders of the European Community were shocked and worried about what they considered the dangerous consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall. German unity was inevitable. Some tried to block it. Others warned of a German Reich. Germany had been at the origin of three wars in a century: the Franco-Prussian war… » read more
Posted by David Heilbron Price
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