The East Problem. Its History and Significance
Das Ostproblem. Seine Geschichte und Bedeutung
The German East in danger! You don't lure a dog out from behind the stove with that these days. Too much danger surrounds us all. But what if it could be shown that there is more here than danger, that there is also the way to salvation? That here, in East Germany and its neighboring countries, where the European knot tightened so disastrously, is also the place to untie it? And in fact! This writing wants to show no less than this. She tackles the problem of Europe, the problem of the time, at the most sensitive and only seemingly remote point: in the problem of the East and its history. And really the problem of time. Not only a political or economic problem, but at the same time that of religion as well as that of stratification and history. Because all this belongs together, is an inseparable unit that is swung by the same pendulum. We shall have to speak of many things: of Baltic trade, of production and need, but also of Christ, of Rome and Byzantium.
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