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Second World War by defeating Britain? one novelist has wondered. Set in
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the authoritiesare esteemed by younger Germans “rebelling against their par-
ents. Questioning the state. Listening to American radio stations. Circulating
their crudely printed copies of proscribed books. . . . Chiefythey protested
against the war―the seemingly endless struggle against the American-backed
Soviet guerrillas.” But forget about a history that never happened. One of the
two regimes that had supplanted the defeated Reich was the German Demo-
cratic Republicwhose censors were wary of American cultural imports. In
the 1960sKurt Hager served as the leading ideologist on the Central Com-
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