, con- ceived in 1949 out of the ashes and rubble of the last great war, bore the defect of being only part of the German whole, even though it claimed to represent the entire German nation.
True, the Federal Republic of Germany became a homeland for most of the 9 million Germans-East Prussians, Silesians, Pomeranians, Sudetenlanders-driven westward after their ex- pulsion from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere in the wake of World War 11. Similarly, until the erection of the Berlin Wall in...