Bracher argued that the Federal Republic was one of two rival German states competing for the loyalty of the German people, the successor state to two regimes that failed, and inhabited by two generations with different memories of the past.
布拉赫指出联邦共和国是为德国人民的忠诚而竞争的两个敌对的德意志政权之一，两种统治的继承国由与对过去不一样记忆的两代人占据。