The respective passage of the Basic Law's Preamble reads: 'The German People ... animated by the resolve to preserve their national and political unity and to serve the peace of the world as an equal partner in a united Europe ... have enacted, by virtue of their constituent power, this Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany'.
2.
The 'flying dutchman' is considered to be the symbol for finding no rest in this world.
3.
These German historians stand for the continuity thesis, opposed by historians like Klaus Gotto, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Michael Sturmer and Werner Weidenfield.
4.
Among those rare Polish historians who are aware of the basic differences between Adenauer's and Brandt's foreign policy options are Jerzy Krasuski and Czeslaw Mojsiewicz.
5.
See Hans J. Morgenthau , Dilemmas of Politics (Chicago, IL, 1958), p. 172ff.
6.
George F. Kennan , 'Disengagement Revisited', Foreign Affairs (Vol. 37, No. 2, January 1959), p. 196.
7.
Raymond Aron, 'Schicksal zweier Volker: Der deutsche Nachbar' in H. Ziock (ed.), Sind die Deutschen wirklich so? Meinungen aus Europa, Asien, Akrika und Amerika (Herrenalb /Schwarzwald, 1965), p.39ff.
8.
Michel Albert, Un pari pour /'Europe (Paris, 1985).
9.
Georg Wolff , 'Mein Gott, was soil aus Deutschland werden'? Konrad Adenauer, seine Zeit, sein Staat', Der Spiegel (No. 40-46, 27 September to 8 November 1961).
10.
Golo Mann, preface to Willy Brandt , Der Wille zum Frieden: Perspektiven der Politik (Hamburg, 1971), p.11-18 and Willy Brandt, ibid, p. 33.
11.
Willy Brandt, Friedenspolitik in Europa (Frankfurt a.M., 1968), p. 49. On page 21 we can also read: 'Our task is it, and the task of the following generations remains it, to complete the German nation....'
12.
Ibid, p. 47.
13.
Bericht der Bundesregierung uber die Lage der Nation im geteilten Deutschland 1970-1 (Bonn, 1971) and the recently published W. Link, 'Aussen und Deutshlandpolitik in der Ara Brandt, 1969-1974', Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Vol. 5, No. 1, 1986), pp. 163-282.
14.
G. Gaus, 'Mit de Gaulle heim ins alte Reich: Egon Bahrs Europa', Europa Union, Uberparteilichliche Zeitung fur die Vereinigten Staaten von Europa (Vol. 23, No. 7, July 1972).
15.
M. Reiman, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbacev: Kontinuitat und Bruche in der sowjetischen Geschichte (Hamburg, 1987), p. 164.
