Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins
with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his
extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic
Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the
vindication of a life-long devotee of European democracy. It is
unlikely that any comparable memoir will be written, since Lasky's
career spanned the entire history of wartime and postwar Germany,
especially in divided and Wall-torn Berlin.Voices in a Revolution,
now in paperback, offers an in-depth portrayal of the Communist
police state before the breakdown, followed by a blow-by-blow
account of the drama of breakdown and regime transformation.
Characters in the everyday cultural world of Germany come alive as
harbingers and heralds of the end of the old and the necessity of
the new.Lasky understands the role of accident as well as of
necessity. The West Germans had all but abandoned the slogan of One
People, One Nation when they were faced with the immense task of
supervising just such a reintegration. The work ends with the
awakening conscience at the very point that the Berlin Wall came
tumbling down. This is a memorable work--one likely to sear the
conscience of lovers of freedom and analysts of tyranny alike.
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