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Article: Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War.(Book review)
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- The Romanic Review
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- November 1, 2007
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Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War. Eds. Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman. Albany" State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. 304.
Over the centuries, relations between France and Germany have oscillated between the extremes of love and hatred with all the different shades of emotions in between. Whereas politically, they have ranged from close alliance to war, depending on the power constellations at a certain time, culturally they were informed by the variable sentiments of mutual admiration, respect, fear, and disdain. In fact, just the past 65 years are a case in point when in the space of almost a human life-time, the two nations ...