In 1984, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti aptly summarized popular perception of the divided nationality of the two Germanys, East and West: "There are two German states, and two they shall remain." Few would have disagreed. By the 1980s, both German states had come to occupy respected niches in the international community. Still, neither
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