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The article discusses the author's perspective on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Prussia, Germany. He points that GDR is the last Stalinist in East Europe and its existence depends upon the Soviet divisions stationed within its boarders. He adds that the stressing of things in the East represents a deliberate attempt to identify their own state with the real German past. He also mentions that the East German government has strong historical antecedents from the time of Otto von Bismarck has consistently voted communist.

The article focuses on the education systems of Germany and Great Britain. According to the author, who has been the observer from the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the recent developments in the British education system presents a fascinating spectacle. The dismantling of elements which he had seen as patterns of the British liberality and democracy was also perceived by him. The observer sympathizes with the infuriated reactions of his liberal colleagues in Great Britain and their protest against Thatcherism in education. Nevertheless, at the same time the observer from the FRG cannot but regard their annoyance as a manifestation of an insular limitation of their horizons. It is further noted in the article that the British education system as a whole, however has attracted only little attention in the ERG, comprehensive descriptions of education in Great Britain, accessible to a wider public are virtually non-existent. The author finally comes out with the conclusion that the present British interest in the education system of the FRG has one distinctly recognizable motive.