Big Germany, what now?

The new German Question. On the 75th anniversary of the Federal Republic.

History of the Present (week ending 11 May 2024)

Red skies over Germany. (Author’s photo, Elmau, Bavaria)

Big Germany, what now?

Countries, unlike human beings, can be old and young at the same time. More than 1,900 years ago Tacitus wrote a book about a fascinating people called the Germans. In his fifteenth-century treatise Germania, Aeneas Silvius Picco…