Introduction / Frederic Bozo and Christian Wenkel -- France and the German question, 1945-1949 : on the interdependence of historiography, methodology, and interpretations / Rainer Hudemann -- Economic and industrial issues in France's approach to the German question in the post-war period / Francoise Berger -- France, German rearmament, and the German question, 1945-1955 / Michael H. Creswell -- Impossible allies? Soviet views of France and the German question in the 1950s / Geoffrey Roberts -- An arbiter between the superpowers : Charles De Gaulle and the German question, 1958-1969 / Garret J. Martin -- The German question in the eastern policies of France and Germany in the 1960s / Benedikt Schoenborn -- Perceptions of Ostpolitik : French-West German relations and the evolving German question under Brandt and Pompidou / Gottfried Niedhart -- France, the CSCE, and the German question / Nicolas Badalassi -- The economic and monetary dimensions of the German question : a French perspective, 1969-1979 / Guido Thiemeyer -- The French "obsession" with the German question : Willy Brandt, Francois Mitterrand, the German question, and German unification, 1981-1990 / Bernd Rother -- All about Europe? France, Great Britain and the question of German unification, 1989-90 / Ilaria Poggiolini -- Franco-Soviet relations, German unification, and the end of the Cold War / Frederic Bozo -- Towards a new Anschluss? : France and the German and Austrian questions, 1945-55 / Thomas Angerer -- France, Poland, and Germany's eastern border, 1945-1990 : the recurrent issue of the German question in French-Polish relations / Pierre-Frederic Weber -- A surprising continuity : the French attitude and policy towards the GDR, 1949-1990 / Christian Wenkel.
Summary:
"In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany's fate, and the separation of the country--the result of the nascent Cold War--emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the 'German question' a central foreign policy issue--and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France's approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged"-- Provided by publisher.
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