Klaus Wiegrefe

Klaus Wiegrefe

Klaus Wiegrefe writes forDer Spiegel where he has been in charge of its contemporary history section since 1997.

Updated: 18 January 2017

By Klaus Wiegrefe

Germany: You get unification, we get the euro

While Germans celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand were at war over the consequences of a united Germany. Secret government documents obtained by Der Spiegel appear to show that Bonn was forced to sacrifice the Deutschmark for reunification.

1 October 2010 – Der Spiegel (Hamburg) 2