... long Cold War. When this happened, the whole country basically kept the West German political and economic system, instead of using a combination of the two Eastern and Western regions. Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor preferred this approach, calling it a "fast track" to unification. And so with that, the country resumed using West Germany's Basic Law as a form of a constitution. "The ... ...

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