Translating Berlin

Beneath the seemingly benign surface of German unification serious problems are emerging. Most of the problems seem to originate in the attitude taken by many western German citizens to their new compatriots in eastern Germany. The generous, welcoming attitude displayed by many western Germans to their eastern German neighbors before unification has changed quite drastically. [...]

Hard drive damage should immediately follow a hard drive repair to prevent another occurrence. Bad sectors on the magnetic disks need be checked and a change of the hard drive will be done since the bad sectors cannot be corrected. At times we may ignore feedback from the computer and this information and action needed [...]

Dessert apples are by far the most important fresh fruit exported. Until 1988 the amount exported annually, including re-exports, was between 34 000t and 39 000t but in 1989 this leapt up to 49 000t, with re-exports averaging some 10 000t. In 1989/90 producer organisations achieved record sales on the German home market and for [...]

The party celebrating Germany’s transportation into Europe’s largest democracy is finally over. What is left is the debris to clear away and the hangover to nurse. The climax was reached December 2 with the first all-German elections in 58 years, two months after the national celebrations on October 3 for unification day. Yet looking back, [...]

In the summer of 1989, Sybilli Schimmel’s life was traveling along as if it were on autopilot. After all, the routine had been the same for years. An eight-year veteran of the East German women’s handball team, Schimmel would rise early in the morning in her one-bedroom apartment in East Berlin, have a bite to [...]

The Waldheim affair has thrown an unwelcome light on Austria’s attitude to the past, a curious mixture of oblivion and impenitence. We have all been fascinated by President Waldheim’s amnesia about his war service, and by the reaction in Austria. There were the polls that supported Waldheim, the deputy mayor of Linz who complained about [...]

Within ten years, it was said at the time. the new Germany will be an economic colossus of 80 million people (it far surpassed that, of course) — the five eastern Lander fully integrated and, hopefully, enjoying the same high standard of living as their western neighbours. But the path to this new Germany will [...]

THE outstanding event of 1990 was the reunification of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.) and the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3 after monetary union between the two states had preceded it on July 1. Inclusion of the East German economy is currently not yet possible. In the meantime the statistics for the five [...]

What sparked more than 100 West Berliners to climb over the wall to the Communist East was a dispute over the fate of the Lene Dreieck, 40,000 square meters of mud and shrubs directly bordering the wall in the one-time center of pre-war Berlin. In the 1920s this area near the Potsdamer Platz was one [...]