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The collapse of the Berlin Wall in Novem- ber 1989 suddenly made German unifi- cation a live issue, and West German chancellor Helmut Kold embraced it as lus own. With firm and crucial support from the United States, Kohl skillfully brought about the Vereinigung (unification) the next October. But in that election year of 1990, he "did not say that the pat11 to unity would be expensive, arduous, and long," Heinrich August Winkler, a historian at Humboldt-Universitat...