Kohl 1982-1989
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- Kohl 1982-1989
- Social Problems of the 1980s
- continuing unemployment
- excluded immigrants from society & created division
- Gastarbeiter = 8% of the population but in some areas made up 50% local population
- did not integrate well
- Kohl's desired solution was for them to leave but some were 2nd generation so thought of Germany was their home
- Flick Affair
- one of Germany's largest businesses, the Flick Corporation, exempted from tax payments in return for financial contributions to the FDP
- FDP Finance Minister forced to resign 1984 for accepting bribes & was convicted of tax evasion in 1987
- Bitburg Controversy
- Kohl arranged small military ceremony of reconciliation at Bitburg to mark 40th anniversary of end of WWII as part of Reagan's state visit in 1985
- visit to holocaust memorial at Bergen-Belsen added later in poor attempt to make up for it
- cemetery contained grves of 49 members of **
- interpreted as Kohl's attempt to rehabilitate former-Nazis
- Kohl's Economic Policy
- continued ostpolitik
- return to tried and tested policies rather than innovative new ideas
- Erhard's economic policy
- closer European economic & monetary integration
- reducing govts. role in the economy
- fears of a lack of democracy proved unfounded & there was no constitutional crisis, safeguards were working & CDU/CSU + FDP coalition working
- the removal of Schmidt was seen to undermine democracy as the political system was seen to be manipulated by a small party in pursuit of its own political agenda
- 'Die Wende' (the turning point) indicating the end of SPD rule & the return of Conservative ascendency
- Kohl was saved from resigning in 1989 by the collapse of the E.G. govt.
- Social Problems of the 1980s
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