In the 1970s, Vietnamese people came to both East and West Germany in large numbers.
In 1990, East and West Germany formally united at midnight, burying 45 years of Cold War division.
East and West Germany illustrate the power of markets too, but nothing is so telling as the disparate living standards between North and South Korea.
It is the party of choice for losers from the unification of East and West Germany, and those who think they are suffering from globalisation.
In the years that followed the unification of East and West Germany, the country's desire to be competitive meant that wages grew at a very moderate rate.
In 1990, East and West Germany and the World War II allies signed a treaty to restore sovereignty to a united Germany and define its international status.
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and East and West Germany were finally united in 1990, millions tuned in each night to coverage that spanned nearly a year.
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She could be very wrong as well as right: She insisted after the fall of the Berlin Wall that an attempt to unite East and West Germany was doomed to failure.
Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and demanding that Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down" the wall separating East and West Germany, Reagan advanced a vision of the Cold War that found considerable support.
When the city was divided between East and West Germany, early street artists like French artist Thierry Noir used the western side of the wall as a place to share political messages and commentary on Berlin and the world at large.
In 1989, East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government threw open its border to the West.
What Germany did, however, was to merge two complete systems from West and East Germany to lie them on top of one another in untamed form, such that both were fundamentally redefined.
Even though the North is now reckoned to have enough food to survive, albeit miserably, for another four months, most South Koreans are terrified that their northern neighbour will collapse into their laps much as East Germany collapsed into West Germany's, and that South Korea will find it even harder than West Germany did to meet the enormous costs and social strains of unification.
The rest of the border between West and East Germany also was fortified.
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The fusion of West and East Germany in 1990 led to a spending boom in which big firms became interested in extending their empires and neglected financial discipline.
East Germany portrayed its citizens as co-victims of Nazism and, unlike West Germany, did not own up to German responsibility for the Holocaust.
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On top of that, there are persistent wide differences between pockets of poverty in the old East Germany and the booming South-West of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, 20 years after unification.
He cited a study by a group of European climatic institutes that reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in a region ranging from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south.
After a couple of years of anguished argument, parliament found a compromise between the toughish law of former West Germany and the softer one of the ex-communist east.
Now, by becoming part of the city-state government in Berlin, which straddles east and west, the party is hoping to win acceptance at last as a normal part of Germany's body politic, rather than be dismissed as a regional oddity, doomed to fade away as east and west grow closer together.
Until now, the census figures dated back to a West German one conducted in 1987, and a 1981 one in the former communist East Germany.
Huawei has sold Cisco-type equipment in such noncritical markets as East Africa and West Asia for several years, though lately it has also scored telecom wins in Spain and Germany.
In addition we should forcefully advocate the kind of intervention that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989: East Germany's neighbors, particularly Czechoslovakia and Hungary, made it clear that East Germans could use their countries as transit points to get to West Germany.
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 Germany duly awaited a flood of novels dealing with the joys and sorrows of the reunion of East and West.
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