Leipzig professor on the East-West debate: “The East has perspectives that the West lacks” | free press

Shouldn’t the East-West debate be over long ago? No, thinks the Leipzig German studies professor Dirk Oschmann: We should rather start from scratch and, above all, in a complex way: at least as long as the West defines the East as a general problem area. In his book “The East: A West German Invention” he summarizes views,…