's "economic miracle" has become a cliche. We focus here less on the country's industrial resurgence than on the society that pro- duced it-and the new society that it made possible. Success creates its own problems. Below, historian Konrad Jarausch re- calls the West's long love-hate relationship with the German people; journalist David Binder looks at the legacy of World War I1 and the evolution of the modern Federal Republic; and histo- rian David Schoenbaum analyzes West Germany's...