2007-01-27 04:16:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I've read that some did.
2007-01-27 04:22:32 · answer #1 · answered by Lucy Lou 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally yes. I'm German and from what was West Germany. I was 8 years old when the Berlin Wall fell and the German-German border was opened, so I don't remember much the time of division, but I remember that everyone was very happy about the opening of the border and the reunification one year later. I already heard as a child that the East Germans were confined in their country, that they were quite poor, that they had no democracy, that they had to be afraid of the Stasi (secret police) if they were oppositional and that some people were killed when they tried to cross the border illegally, and so I felt sorry for them.
2007-01-27 04:29:53 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
West Germany replaced into below u . s . a . administration. usa had a greater effective investment gadget for Europe. usa could lend money to Euro international locations. those international locations could then spent it on u . s . a . supplies. usa then spent this earnings rebuilding/helping those international locations. East Germany replaced into below Soviet administration. The Soviets did no longer have a reconstruction plan like usa nor did they permit usa to speculate in East Germany. It replaced into no longer a count of communism. It replaced right into a count of investment in reconstruction. The Soviets have been too busy coping with inner issues and coping with usa to spent money reconstruction on eastern Europe.
2016-12-16 14:51:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋