Talk:List of German foreign ministers
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[edit] Protected
I have protected this page due to the ongoing revert war. I have protected it on the last stable version - 00:04, 20 May 2004. 172 19:50, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] POV
how can it be POV? As far as I can see, the list is sorted by titles ("State Secretary" and "Minister"). The title has been "Minister of Foreign Affairs" since 1918.) - Burschenschafter, in an edit summary.
It is POV to say that the Federal Republic was the legitimate successor of the German Reich of 1871-1945, because, from 1949 until 1990, there were two German states which both claimed to be the legitimate successor of the German Reich (and which, after 1971, both admitted that they were both legitimate successors to the German Reich). To say that the Federal Republic's Ministers of Foreign Affairs were the "main line", and separate out the DDR's, is to enshrine the Federal Republic's official position of 1949-1971 as the objective truth, which is POV. john 20:06, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] GDR
Why were the GDR foreign ministers removed? The GDR was just as much "Germany" between 1949 and 1990 as the FRG. It continues to be POV to pretend as though the FRG was the lone successor of the old German Reich. john k 22:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
