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1.   Unification and Property Issues (June 15, 1990)
The regulation of property issues was among the most important topics in the negotiations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in the summer of 1990. The principle....
2.   The Privatization of the GDR Economy (June 17, 1990)
In June 1990, the GDR Volkskammer passed the so-called Treuhandgesetz [Trusteeship Law]. It regulated the restructuring of the planned economy into a free market economy and the privatization....
3.   "Blooming Landscapes" (July 1, 1990)
On the day the Deutschmark was introduced in the territory of the GDR, Chancellor Helmut Kohl called upon the citizens of the Federal Republic to show solidarity....
4.   The Example of Sket (December 21, 1992)
This article looks at Sket, a heavy machinery combine [Kombinat] in Magdeburg, and describes how a once-venerable industrial enterprise was struggling to survive. With the disappearance of....
5.   The Unification Crisis (December 31, 1992)
Munich historian Christian Meier argues that the problems facing Germany should be subsumed under the heading “unification crisis,” since the term does justice to their true dimensions. He sees the....
6.   Privatization of a Government-Owned Bookstore (c. 1993)
The occupational uncertainties faced by former GDR citizens in the wake of unification come to the fore in this conversation between author Landolf Scherzer and Annegret S., a bookseller in Thuringia.....
7.   Solidarity Pact I (March 16, 1993)
In March of 1993, representatives of the federal government, the parties, and the minister presidents of the Länder [federal states] agreed on the so-called Solidarity....
8.   Unification makes Progress (October 2, 1995)
In an editorial in the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel, journalist Hermann Rudolph reminds readers that the unification process was making progress despite all of the difficulties involved.....
9.   GDR Nostalgia (1996)
In the mid-1990s, an alleged GDR nostalgia made headlines in the German news media. In the following....
10.   Property and Justice (February 19, 2004)
Richard Schröder had been elected to the GDR Volkskammer in 1990 as a member of the SPD. In the face of yet another flare-up in the debate on how to deal....
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