Amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s border, an escape tunnel that ran beneath the Berlin Wall has been opened to the public for the first time.
in 1990 to 75% in 2018, and its unemployment rate falling from a crest of 18.7% in 2005 to 6.4% in October, not far above Germany's 5% national unemployment figure.
Kohl's prognosis and famous promise of"blooming landscapes" in the East seemed optimistic to many, who found it hard to believe that the Soviet Union — with a half-million troops in East Germany — would let it happen easily, said Kowalczuk, whose book on reunification,"The Takeover," was published in German this year.
Gehrhus had gone to bed early that fateful night. When his parents woke him up to tell him what happened, he grumpily told them to"drink a little less" and rolled back over to sleep. But the rapid transition in about two years from an industrial economy to a service economy was a shock to the system. That was compounded by the move from a communist system, where the state covered child care to old-age care and everything in between, to capitalism, where people could more easily fall through the cracks.
That helped spark the exodus of young working people to the West. Still today, only 16 of the country's top 500 companies by revenue are based in the east, according to a study in Die Welt newspaper, and none of those are on Germany's flagship stock market index, the DAX.
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