What kept the national government from using its arsenal of weapons? Prayers.
IN THE EARLY DAYS of October this year, Germany will celebrate a noteworthy anniversary: ten years of national unity. October 3, 1990, marked the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the beginning of a new, changed Germany—a Germany without internal boundaries.
The words of Nobel Prize-winner Willy Brandt, "Now that will grow together which belongs together," have come true in a variety of ways. Much has been accomplished, and much is not yet the way it could be—but in most of the comments from politicians, artists, and scientists, gratitude for what has developed, or at least satisfaction, predominates.
