Schröder's Kulturkampf

October 24, 2002 | This article appeared in the November 11, 2002 edition of The Nation.

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Coming as it did in the final weeks of a precarious re-election
campaign, incumbent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's resolute
"No" to German participation in any US-led war on Iraq was

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Hugh Eakin

Hugh Eakin, a freelance journalist, was a 2001-2002 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin.

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