The world, it seems to me, has no choice but to support the positive side of the split and to extend its hand to a democratic Germany.
This memory should not vanish: it is part of democratic Germany's defense against the temptation to gather around some new extreme nationalism in the future.
"We want to show the new Germany: democratic, united and unpretentious."
He travelled frequently as a representative of the new, democratic Germany.
The election marked the final milestone in the revival of a united and democratic Germany.
He finds a new democratic Germany which invoke feelings of both love and hate.
People who were brought up in a communist culture became integrated with those living in democratic western Germany.
He traveled to Europe before his inauguration to study industry and cooperatives in social democratic Germany.
He also declared that Europe "need have no fear of a democratic Germany."
It then promptly set out to build yet another "new Berlin," this time as capital of a prosperous, democratic and single Germany.