Modern Germany
Subtitle: Politics, Society and Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780415150347
First sentence: 'Bonn ist nicht Weimar.' This oft-qouted remark from the mid-1950s was meant to indicate that the political system in West Germany, with Bonn as its (provisional) capital after 1949, was different from that of the ill-fated Weimar Republic (1919-33), Germany's first attempt at democracy.