In the introduction to his 1982 book Zeit der Ideologien (Age of Ideologies), Bracher wrote: "When the realization of high-pitched political expectations was found to come up against certain limits, there was a revival of the confrontation, especially painful in Germany and one that was generally believed to have been overcome".
在他1982年著作《Zeit der Ideologien》（意识形态的时代）的引言中，布拉赫写到“当认识到高度倾向性的政治期望被发现以破除某些限制降临的时候，出现了一种对峙的重现，在德国尤为令人痛苦，而且是通常被认为已经克服了的”。