Germany from Adenauer to Angela (TRIH ep 102)
1990 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the history of post‑war German democracy by running through successive West German and German chancellors up to Angela Merkel. They open with the devastation of 1945 and the mixed idea of Stunde Null, then discuss Konrad Adenauer’s pragmatic rebuilding and early Cold War choices, Ludwig Erhard’s technocratic economic role, and the controversy around Kurt Georg Kiesinger’s Nazi past. Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik and symbolic gestures are covered, as a...
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