The minister went on to explain that peace in Europe is today embedded in this realization: if East European countries had thought that millions of ethnic Germans would like to return, ``the Iron Curtain would have never come down.''
El ministro siguió explicando que la paz de Europa está íntimamente vinculada con esa comprensión: si los países de la Europa oriental hubieran pensado que millones de alemanes étnicos deseaban regresar, ``el telón de acero nunca se habría desplomado''.