Images - Unification Shock

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11.	Employment Office in Berlin-Marzahn (June 6, 1996) Within the framework of the Honecker-era housing program of the 1970’s and 1980’s, “Plattenbau” settlements....
12.	Inside an "East Shop" (November 18, 1996) Western consumer goods virtually functioned as luxury goods in the German Democratic Republic. This phenomenon was underscored by the establishment of special “Intershops,” where Western goods could....
13.	Raising Calves at a Fomer Collectivized Farm (April 7, 1997) In 1960, after the completion of collectivization, more than 19,000 landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaften (large collectivized farms) existed in the German Democratic Republic. In....
14.	Nationwide Day of Protest by the Unemployed (March 5, 1998) The announcement of unemployment figures on March 5, 1998, gave labor unions an occasion to organize protest campaigns in 200 German cities. Demonstrations in front of Deutsche Bank branch offices,....
15.	Major Construction Site in Dowtown Leipzig (August 3, 1999) After unification, a flurry of building activity touched down in several major East German cities, almost completely transforming the appearance of their downtowns. Between 1999 and 2001, the Burgplatzpassage....
16.	Vacant Apartment Buildings in Wittenberge (February 15, 2001) Before the Wende, the largest employers in the Brandenburgian town of Wittenberge were a publicly owned pulp and viscose rayon plant [VEB Zellstoff- und Zellwollewerke] and a sewing....
17.	Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Peter Hartz (September 10, 2002) To reform the labor market, a fifteen-member “Committee for Modern Services in the Labor Market,” led by Volkswagen personnel director Peter Hartz, was created in February 2002. The Hartz Committee....
18.	Good Bye, Lenin! (February 26, 2003) Whereas West German glimpses at the “exotic” East were predominant in film in the early 1990s, East German and all-German perspectives began to play an increasingly important role towards the end....
19.	Ostalgie on TV: Ein Kessel DDR [A GDR Potpourri] (August 20, 2003) The success of the movie Good Bye, Lenin! prompted a whole wave of Ostalgie....
20.	"Blooming" Industrial Landscapes (April 28, 2004) On July 1, 1990, the Monetary, Economic, and Social Union took effect, and Chancellor Helmut....
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