West Germany has successfully cleared its rubble, and achieved a hard-won economic recovery. But how successfully has it cleared its old habits of thought? Opportunities to test such changes of mind are hard to come by. Last week a cabinet crisis in Lower Saxony provided a dramatic test case.
When a new state government took office last month, the job of Minister of Culture went to aggressive, 34-year-old Leonhard Schlüter. He had been a hard, bright, ambitious youngster in Hitler's Germany. His mother was half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed...
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