With the Berlin Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade.

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  • Author(s): Kulish, Nicholas
  • Source:
    New York Times. 11/8/2009, Vol. 159 Issue 54853, p1. 0p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BERLIN Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; QUIZ of the Germans, The (TV program); ALLIED occupation, Berlin, Germany, 1945-1990; SEX education
    • Subject Terms:
      BERLIN (Germany); GERMANY
    • Abstract:
      ''The Quiz of the Germans,'' a lighthearted entry amid a crush of serious examinations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, pitted three West German celebrities seated behind the sloping hood of an old Volkswagen Beetle against counterparts from the East perched above the front of a clunky Trabant. On a television stage emblazoned with an oversize map of unified Germany, the questions about the divided old days were as symmetrical as the antique cars. The topics -- nude beachgoers in the East and sex education in the West, vacation destinations or the funny dialects on either side -- struck a note of shared Germanness that endured even at the peak of the cold war. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]