Helmut Kohl, Catholic statesman Jeffrey Gedmin, Washington Post Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II are often credited with winning the Cold War, but the role of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s management of the reunification of Germany was as important as anything that happened in the 1980s. © 2023 The Catholic Thing. All rights reserved. For reprint rights, write to: [email protected] The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own.
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Helmut Kohl, Catholic statesman
Jeffrey Gedmin, Washington Post
Tuesday, June 20, 2017