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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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