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Abstract
Neither of the two Germanies had formulated a separate national identity. Both vaguely defined themselves as a single German nation temporarily separated. With reunification, east and west Germans have realised that they have no common norms to demarcate their identity. They are reverting to nationalism, a definition of the nation by means of hostility to outsiders, as promulgated by neo‐Nazi doctrine and implemented by neo‐Nazi violence. East Germans are more amenable to nationalism because they relinquished their tenuous dis‐tinctiveness to join the FRG and because they are less committed to democratic values.
