"Adenauer's pursuit of Western integration consolidated democracy in the West at the cost of the East." Comment

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According to the newspaper die Frankfurte Allgemeine Zeitung, the number of the unemployed people in Germany has decreased by 25,000 in November increasing the number of unemployed people to 4,531,000. Adenauer's decision to anchor the Western Federal Republic in the capitalist block, rather than to pursue unification at all costs, has created many controversies. Did the policy-making of Adenauer, consolidating democracy in the West, harm the East and delay the German unification?

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[...] In practice, democracy was only partly consolidated under his mandates. As a matter of fact, the process of denazification severely lacked seriousness and proved to be incomplete. A great part of the elite remained in power within the German institutions, such as the Courts or the Civil Service. What is more, in the Bundestag, the electoral logic evolved into a two-party system, leaving little space for an accession of small parties to Parliament. Therefore, the emergence of democracy in post-war Western Germany is far from being unproblematic. [...]

[...] Furthermore, it conceals the long-term benefits of Adenauer's policy-making towards a democratic and united Germany. Bibliography Gordon Smith et al, Developments in German Politics Palgrave Macmillan Houndmills Horst Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, Olzog München http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin-Note aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Peter Pulzer, German Politics 1945-1995, Oxford University Press United States The Postwar Tranformation of Germany, Democracy, Prosperity, and Nationhood, John S. Brady et.al, University of Michigan Michigan H. Doring and G. Smith, Party Government and Political Culture in Western Germany, London. [...]

[...] “Adenauer's pursuit of Western integration consolidated democracy in the West at the cost of the East.” Comment According to the newspaper die Frankfurte Allgemeine Zeitung, the number of the unemployed people in Germany has decreased by 25.000 in November, reaching the stage of jobless persons. The Federal Minister of the Economy, Michael Glos (CSU) spoke in the Bundestag ersten November seit der Wiedervereinigung, in dem es zu keiner Zunahme der Arbeitslosigkeit gekommen Even long after Adenauer's mandates, his heritage is still perceptible in Germany. [...]

[...] In practice however, one must admit that Western integration was the quickest and the safest way to regain stability. The strong policy of Adenauer was only aimed at setting limits to individual rights for the prosperity of democracy.[6] II Adenauer's ambiguous Role in the Partition of Germany At the end of the Second World War, post-war Germany found itself in a position of submission. A militant democratic movement was far more acceptable in the view of the Western powers than a claim for unification as a priority. [...]

[...] Smith, Party Government and Political Culture Brady et.al, The Postwar Tranformation of Germany Peter Merkl in Brady et.al, The Postwar Tranformation of Germany Brady et.al The Postwar Tranformation of Germany Hanrieder, West German foreign policy Pulzer, German Politics Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte Pulzer, German Politics Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte Hanrieder, West German foreign policy [14]John S. Brady et.al The Postwar Tranformation of Germany Krueger, The Federal Republic as a Nation-State, in The Postwar Transformation of Germany Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte Ibid. Ibid. Pötzsch, Deutsche Geschichte General social surveys 2000 in David P. [...]