"Germany has been, in the grips of its history, a divided people. The pivot of Germany's tragedies and its greatest glories have been its geography. All that passes through Europe, east to west, north to south, crosses Germany and has affected its character directly and indirectly." So says Leonard Freed, who spent significant time after the second World War traveling through the Germanic countryside. He has captured the multi-faceted identity crisis of a nation searching for itself, one where families have been divided, new immigrants arrive daily on its borders, and people struggle for normality...