Despite the highly principled talk of self-determination, African nationalists were excluded from the negotiations, and the African colonial prizes of Germany — Togoland, Cameroon, East Africa, and South West Africa — were divided up with little or no consultation of those people. . 48...…
West Berlin was a landlocked capitalist political enclave surrounded by communist East Germany. . ... Not surprisingly, officials in East Germany urged NBC to cancel the documentary. ..…
This move made it impossible for GDR to compete with West Germany in U.S market, the important market in the in those formative years of the fledgling republic and even today.. ..…
By people often totally uninterested in, 'Human rights were demanded Mandela, Leonard Peltier or even 'Berufsverbote West Germany, where some were jailed, many were fired and 1.4 million were investigated by the equivalent of FBI because of their undesirable views... ..…
When one reads the series of thoughtful anniversary articles of the moderate German left-wing press, for example the taz and Der Freitag, it is easy to see why this was so: the West Germans, when taking in the reality of East Germany, were at the same time discovering their own repudiated..…
Thirty years on from German reunification, GDP per individual in eastern Germany is still only 73.2% of what it is in the west. ..…
Gorbachev We saw West Germany as country that embarked on path to democracy after the collapse of Hitler regime. And unification is understood today, as it was 30 years ago, as the fulfillment of long-held desires of the citizens of East and West Germany. ..…
It divided into West Germany and the East Germany, the former democracy of some million anchored into what was to become Western NATO alliance, the latter struggling social experiment, third as large, allied to Communist Warsaw Pact. The day afterwards, British to West..…
The tunnel was built by group of people who had escaped earlier from East Germany to West Berlin. ..…