Beschreibung

"Communism's peaceful downfall in eastern Germany in 1989 and the country's subsequent unification left many people's lives turned upside down - in the East as well as in the West. (...) But what has in fact changed since the peaceful revolution and the joyful days of unification? What are the directions Germany's economic, social, and political development has taken since, and on which issues do East and West Germans actually have different points of view? Where do we observe consensus? These are the questions this chapter will address. We begin be describing Germany's actual development since unification, relying on official statistics. Then we will look at justice sentiments on both sides of the former border, and how these were affected by unification." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))