The Path Towards German Reunification

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This paper looks at the socio-political conditions that prevailed in both the sides of divided Germany, a study which also serves to highlight the part Germany played in the Cold War and the overall struggle between the Soviet East and the Capitalist West.

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Economic Problems of the GDR
Demographic Problems
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Events during 1990

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"In 1987, with Erich Honecker's visit to the Federal Republic, the GDR had achieved recognition in West Germany. Now East German authorities had the task of establishing an East German identity. This would be a task to hard to achieve as the creation of the two Germanies had been a result of foreign intervention and all Germans remained linked trough cultural and historical ties including the recent events of WWII. The initial intensions of the SED regime was to portray the GDR as a revolutionary functioning soviet satellite that would supersede the efficiency of the western dominated Federal Republic. Once this process was completed, Germany would be reunited under the communist rule."

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