Klaus Wiegrefe
Klaus Wiegrefe writes for Der Spiegel where he has been in charge of its contemporary history section since 1997.
Updated: 1 October 2010
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By Klaus Wiegrefe
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Germany: You get unification, we get the euro
1 October 20101462 Der Spiegel Hamburg
While Germans celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand were at war over the consequences of a united Germany. Secret government documents obtained by Der Spiegel appear to show that Bonn was forced to sacrifice the Deutschmark for reunification.