They just released another analysis paper on basis of documents that before were kept secret, examining the role of sacrificing the Deutsche Mark for reunification. While what it says may not be wrong, I think it is not complete, because the priority Paris has traditionally put on trying to dominate Europe by establish a centralised European administration inside which Paris hopes to have a decisive word, is not being mentioned with even just a single word. Before reunification, there already were rifts between Bonn and Paris over currency unions and the role the EU should play, and Germany was very much opposing the visions of the French - much over fears that in past years we have learned to have had some very realistic basis indeed.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...719940,00.html
Maybe it was a mistake of Germany to think in terms of feared time pressure, and due to that pressure allowing a lousy compromise with the French. As a price of reunification, I think the Euro and the current state of the EU supertstate is topo high - for all of Europe, not just Germany. Article 23 of the German constitution always allowed reunification if the German states voluntarily would agree on such a step, and if they would have done so (and the civil disobedience in the GDR was working for the destruction of a political elite that could have wanted to prevent that), in the long run there would have been little any of the Allies could have legally done against that, practically. But the diplomatic fallout maybe was feared too much.
It has been avoided at the cost of an even bigger economic and financial fallout, and a continental superstate eroding freedom more and more. And that is quite some price tag for the interests of just 78 million people in the middle of Europe. Now, almost half a billion pay the price for that.