East Germany Reunification West Germany

When East and West Germany reunited one year ago, the new Germany instantly became the most populous, potentially most politically powerful state in Europe. The leaders of the other Western European powers looked with awe and foreboding upon that phoenix nation, risen from the rubble and shame of World War II. They waited anxiously to see what role the new creature would assume in world affairs.

When East and West Germany reunited one year ago, the new Germany instantly became the most populous, potentially most politically powerful state in Europe. The leaders of the other Western European powers looked with awe and foreboding upon that phoenix nation, risen from the rubble and shame of World War II. They waited anxiously to see what role the new creature would assume in world affairs.

U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters declared Sunday that the current flight of East Germans to the West indicates that East and West Germany might be united in the near future. It marked the first time that a senior allied diplomat has spoken of the possibility of German reunification in the short term--rather than in the distant future.

U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters declared Sunday that the current flight of East Germans to the West indicates that East and West Germany might be united in the near future. It marked the first time that a senior allied diplomat has spoken of the possibility of German reunification in the short term--rather than in the distant future.