Daily Telegraph
London, March 9, 1990
German reunification is simply not a realistic possibility, and to talk about it or to advance historical arguments in its favor is to indulge in political fantasizing.
— Richard Evans, ‘The New Nationalism and the Old History — Perspective on the West German Historikerstreit,’ in Journal Of Modern History, Dec 1987, page 785.We are indebted to John Lukacs for drawing attention to the failed prophet Evans in The Hitler Of History (NY: Knopf, 1977, page 233n), and to Mark Weber for telling us about it.