23/07/2015 · East-West divide still exists in Germany. In October, Germany will celebrate 25 years of reunification, but the situation on the ground shows marked differences between east and west. (Photo: Merlijn Hoek) By Peter Teffer. Brussels, 23. Jul 2015, 09:29. The Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany may have come down over 25 years ago, but ...

02/10/2014 · The Federal Republic, as West Germany was (and today's Germany is) formally known, enveloped the former East Germany, and the new entity was something familiar, at least at first. The West had ...

13/11/2009 · East and West Germany reunite after 45 years. Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as “Unity Day.”. Since 1945 ...

03/09/2019 · West Germany, or the Federal Republic of Germany, followed principles set forth by the U.S. and U.K., while East Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union and its communist policies. As a result, there was severe political and social unrest in Germany throughout most of the mid-1900s and in the 1950s millions of East Germans fled to the west.

07/04/2021 · Between 1949 and 1961, an estimated 2.7 million people migrated from East to West Germany. East Germany had a communist government with a socialist economy and was a satellite state of the Soviet ...

05/04/2020 · The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the reunification of West and East Germany. German separation in 1949 into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and its reunification in 1990 offer a unique setting of a rather unexpected introduction and termination of a communist regime in one part of a previously and afterwards …

01/10/2010 · Photos show the Inner German border, then and now. Photo: DPA. 1 October 2010. 07:32 CEST. Nearly 30 years ago, a hobby photographer set out to photograph the entire border between East and West ...

05/10/2020 · Today, a little more than 7% of East Germans are unemployed, higher than in the West. Because of that any many other challenges the far-right AfD party has obtained a foothold in all six East German State Houses, accumulating more than 20% of the collective vote.

24/01/2018 · Until 1945, East and West Germany shared central cultural elements, including language, common norms, values, and habits. After 1945, East Germany gradually became a communist society and its people were increasingly exposed to collectivism.

There are, however, marked differences between the regions of the former West Germany and East Germany: significantly more children are born out of wedlock in eastern Germany than in western Germany: in 2012, in eastern Germany 61.6% of births were to unmarried women, but in western Germany only 28.4%.