As Preuss writes, "The transition from an
authoritarian political regime and its concomitant command economy to
a liberal democracy and a capitalist economy is as unprecedented as
the short-term integration of two extremely different societies - one
liberal-capitalist, one authoritarian-socialist - into one nation
state" (57). In other words, the unification of Germany is one of
the most complicated and unprecedented historical events since the
unification of Germany.

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