The Berlin Wall in 1986. Divided Germany may have been the plaything of foreign powers, but it perhaps remained more truly German than the country which goes by that name today. (Image source: Wikipedia)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Schalk describes that when he first came to Germany in the 1950s, he flipped on the radio and got not German commentary or classical music, but AFN (Armed Forces Radio) belting out some jazz. It was part of what he describes as the great American inundation. He shifts back to the influence of those Germans who settled in America in the eighteenth century, and their philosophical hopes for America’s revolution.