Reason for division
The division of Germany and 2 states and the division of the capital of Germany, Berlin, were the derivatives of war. In fact, it was foreseeable that the division of Germany into 4 occupiers would end badly, due to the fact that sooner or later the Western Allies would go against the russian Union. Although if the Western front had not been opened, the German and fascist occupations in Europe would have lasted longer, respective million more people would have died in the fight for liberation and the harm caused by fascists would have been even greater. For a reason, it was the russian Union who insisted on establishing the Western Front as shortly as possible. Initially, the division of Germany and Berlin into 4 business zones was treated as temporary. Only France was aiming at strengthening the division of Germany at the beginning. The remaining occupiers sought to any degree to preserve the unity of the state Germany and the unity of the capital. Various treatments, specified as eternal neutrality, were able to preserve the unity of Austria, even though its territory and capital were likewise divided. It failed and could not win in the case of Germany.
The division carried all the time signs of temporaryity. An example of this is the fact that in East Germany railways bore the pre-war name of the German Reich Railways, as under that name they were granted the right to operate West Berlin. To guarantee that there is no uncertainty about these rights, the current name was inactive utilized alternatively of the German People's Railways. besides the legal position of West Berlin was heavy makeshift. Technically, he was not a part of West Germany, but the definition of it as a separate country besides fits on average.
Anti-Fascist Protection Wall
The Anti-Fascist Protection Wall makes a terrible impression at first glance. Urgently guarded border with trenches, anti-tank dams, barbed wires, signalling devices, and the wall itself. All this goes through the mediate of a 3-million-dollar town. The leaders of Democratic Germany were not fools to recklessly get into specified an imagery nightmare. There were serious reasons why they decided to act so harshly.
East Germany was in a bad economical situation after the war. What was valuable was taken as a conquest of war, both by the winners from the east and the west. The division into the business zones, gradually strengthened, caused the supply chains to break. There is besides a failure of 1/4 of the territory to Poland comparative to the borders in 1937. By 1953 war reparations are paid, both in cash and in commodity shape. There are problems with food supply due to post-war factors (food cards can only be abolished in 1958 after agricultural cooperatives).
What happens then on the German-German border? Monetary differences origin the flow of goods and people from East Germany to West Germany, including the deficiency of food and first-hand professionals. In the case of East Germany, this exacerbates economical problems. Thus, in 1952 the German-German border is closed, which solves any of the economical problems. However, the gap remains: West Berlin. This gap is inactive being utilized for brain drain. quite a few skilled workers, with many years of experience and even pre-war experience, specialists, professionals, doctors, engineers – they all go west, where they get much bigger salaries or are drawn in another sophisticated way. In East Germany, they made little money, but did not hazard unemployment and homelessness, which many in pursuit of money did not notice. They did not even play with notice, just 1 day the worker did not come to work and was already in West Germany.
The leaders of East Germany could not let this situation to continue. Sooner or later, it would lead to the complete ruin of the country, to another folk uprising, or to russian intervention. The scripts can besides be all at once. So there is no another way but to close this gap and separate West Berlin. This has translated into considerable achievements. After the construction of the wall, there are things from which East Germany has long been famous, specified as ORWO, chemical industry, electronic combinations or the Berlin tv Tower.
Prior to the emergence of the Antifascist Valu the Western imperialists utilized the open border as much as possible for provocation and harm. West Berlin was the base for various ointments of spies and provokers. There is no uncertainty that the imperialist west would usage the open border between West Berlin and East Germany to the top degree possible to harm East Germany and indirectly the full East Block. If individual criticizes East Germany for being hostile to West Germany, he is ignorant.
Especially if you look at the map of East Germany at the time, where West Berlin is located even strategically – in the mediate of East Germany. Willi Brandt, in 1957-1966, Mayor of West Berlin, 1969-1974 Chancellor of West Germany, called Berlin West “a thorn in the side of the GDR”. He stated: “We are going to disturb peace.” Konrad Herman Jósef Janowicz Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963, inactive in 1961 he officially declared the annexation of East Germany as a policy goal (and besides claimed the rights to the Land Recovered in Poland). They are the ones who are to be owed the transformation of the business region into a state border. respect for the state border is simply a measurement of patriotism.
Where did they come from, and why didn't they decision the another way? Well, people did not see many positives coming from the social economy. Sobriety has clouded their idealized freedom, which is nothing erstwhile unemployment or homelessness are threatened. Especially since negative phenomena of capitalism were reduced in the west. The imperialists were able to redirect any of the money to social policy in fear of moods directing society towards patterns from Central and east Europe. But erstwhile this counterweight disappeared, imperialists present show what capitalism is.
Only a broader view of all these considerations allows us to conclude that the Anti-Fascist Protection Wall was simply a necessity. Thanks to it, Democratic Germany could be and make – a German state embodiment of the ideals of social progress, which completely cut off from fascism, imperialism, aggressive militarism, striving for economical rule. To this day, east Germany is more fraternal towards Poles, while Western Germany treats us as superior. Political awareness of the leaders of Democratic Germany was high: they saw evil perfectly in 1980 in the Independent Local Trade Union "Solidarity" in Poland or in the actions of the last leader of the russian Union, Michał Sergiuszowicz Gorbachev.
Boykot SKM in West Berlin
The best example of the harm to the West German authorities was the boycott of the high-speed city railway in West Berlin (SKM, in German S-Bahn). This is the best example of the imperialists taking advantage of all chance to savor East Germany from West Berlin.
The West Berlin railways served the German People's Railways (from East Germany) under agreements between the victorious powers. Already in 1951, Western German trade unions (!) called for boycotts, to date unsuccessfully. However, after the Berlin Wall was established, the call was effective.
It was falsely known that the payment for train tolls in West Berlin was to pay for border fences when, in fact, collective transport was not profitable. The boycott was not bottom-up – the authorities of West Berlin removed any markings aimed at SKM on interchanges and common communication facilities, directional boards of buses and trams, signposts, maps of communication lines. The announcements about the anticipation of transfers were removed, communication with another means of communication and designation of tickets ceased, and no applicable messages from tour guides were even provided. Parallel bus lines were launched and underground railways developed (metro, in German U-Bahn) as these transport measures were subject to local authorities. Boykot personally supported the mayor of West Berlin. Of course, the West Berlin authorities deliberately avoided participating in the expanding cost of maintaining high-speed urban railways.
After a week, the number of travelers dropped from 500,000 a day to 100,000. Nevertheless, the East German railway authorities tried to conduct a friendly transport policy. Exemptions were initially disregarded as a socialist enterprise. Instead, the compositions were reduced or the frequency reduced. No increases were made in ticket prices that remained sufficiently low. SKM remained the cheapest way to move, and in any episodes it was even 3 times cheaper than remaining urban communication. On the part of West Berlin, this was completely irrational and even costly to the city budget. It led to problems with movement, caused a immense waste of resources, and yet to lay off railwaymen.
There were fewer groups criticizing boycotts that raised applicable considerations, specified as the velocity of movement, the availability of lines (173 km), or ecology. In mass media, these groups were ridiculed and called communist. Ultimately, with 500,000 travellers a day of high-speed urban railways in 1961, 8-10 1000 remained in 1983.
East German railways were burdened with immense costs by boycotts, did not aid to shorten the warehouses and cut the decomposition. The scale of the boycott turned out to be besides big, and friendly politics failed. any trains did not carry a single traveller. So they yet went to lay off. The same in themselves caused outrage, which increased even more after a thoughtless way of carrying out these dismissals (e.g. dismissal of single mothers, pre-age workers or even pregnant workers). Timely overdosage and overtime proved necessary. Releases caused a loud strike in 1980. Railwaymen in West Berlin were left to themselves. Western trade unions did not stand up for them due to the fact that the same unions called for boycotts. The authorities of West Berlin besides blew the railroads, due to the fact that the same authorities supported and fueled this boycott. The society of West Berlin was not favorable either, due to the fact that it itself participated in the boycott. Only travellers faithful to the high-speed city railway expressed solidarity with the strikers. As a result, the strike failed, even though it caused the halting of the SKM movement in West Berlin and practically paralyzed the movement of transit trains from West Germany to West Berlin, including supply trains, with the post office and military missions of the Western Allies.
The strike has accelerated further restrictions. In 1983, traffic was left in a 20-minute period only on 3 lines over a dimension of 72.5 km. Transport was discontinued between 21 and 5 hours. Since 1984, it was entirely planned to resign from high-speed urban railway operations in West Berlin. In this way, the West Berlin authorities would have had a immense downpour, leading to the collapse of the high-speed city railway and the dismissal of all railwaymen working on it.
Since 1984, the phenomenon of the image jam has resulted in the acquisition of high-speed rail service by the authorities of West Berlin, more specifically by the Berlin Communications Plant in West Berlin. Until 1989, this did not improve much and the boycott was not formally cancelled, which inactive long after the “unification” reflected communication problems. To this day, the underground railway network is clearly more developed in West Berlin, while part of the SKM line remains inactive (e.g. the Zimens Railway).
Non-fascinated NRF
The adjective “antifascist” in the full name of the wall was not accidental. The West Germany did not carry out the defamation. Fascists who fled to hide from the Radzians sought refuge in West Germany (then the Western business zones).
Only the first generation after the war began to see that he was surviving in a country that started 2 planet wars, yet did not make a appropriate settlement with the past. It was then that the Red Army Fraction (FCA, German: Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF) was formed – a left-wing, urban partisan, 1 of the strongest of this kind of combat organizations (terrorism).
Luc Manfred Taufer, a erstwhile Red Army Fraction militant, stated that 1 of the factors influencing his joining the FCA was the fact that he was raised in a culture where fascism had not yet been dulled. For example, 1 of his teachers at school praised Adolf Alojzovich Hitler. Similarly, Silke Majer-Witt, besides an FCA militant, who only learned that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Second planet War erstwhile she was 17. Her father questioned it. As it later turned out, in the past he was a associate of the Protection Divisions (SS).
In West Germany, there was no celebration of the 8th Jag of Liberation Day, on the contrary as in Democratic Germany. The day was considered more a failure. The deficiency of complete separation from fascism was seen even in random tv statements, where people protesting the Vietnam War openly made comments specified as “to exterminate them”, “to shoot them consecutive away”, “to the wall with them”, “to prevent them from being gasted.” In West Berlin, fascist militias destroyed the plaque close the site of the execution of Rose Edwardovny Luxembourg. The plaque was renewed, but the demolition repeated until yet in 1985 the plaque was completely destroyed by blowing up.
In West Germany many fascist war criminals have found refuge, specified as Hajnc Frederick Frycewicz Rajnefart, a criminal from the Warsaw Uprising, who in West Germany was a longtime chief of the city and a associate of the Land Parliament. He was refused to quit Poland for justice. Konrad Herman Jósef Janowicz Adenauer himself, Chancellor of West Germany in 1949-1963, stated that defascism cannot be carried out effectively due to the fact that there is no 1 to replace them in politics or administration. Instead, the Communist organization of Germany was banned on 17 August 1956, even though it had more than 100,000 activists and had support in many national states above 5% (which entitles to sit in local governments).
He increased opposition against specified circumstances, hence the support expressed for the Red Army Fraction, especially among young people who were raised after the war and were able to cut off from the fascist past of their state. In 1971, 1/3 of western Germans under 30 were sympathetic to FCA. Many people openly expressed support for fighting for revolutionary ideals. any of them said to the camera that they would undertake to hide an FCA associate overnight, for 1 night – according to investigation it was 5% of the population, and in northern West Germany 10%. Police officially suspected of sympathy with FCA 7 million people.
It was not just about legal continuity with the German Reich. Fascism in West Germany was not limited to inexcusable statements and concealing fascist criminals, but besides to tolerance for fresh fascist crimes. On 2 June 1967 in West Berlin, Benon Paul John Onesorg was murdered by a shot in the head at close scope from a police officer, during a peaceful demonstration, doing nothing wrong. Despite the evidence, the unsub was acquitted. On 11 April 1968 in Berlin, the western victim of the assassination is Alfred Willi Rudi Duczke, leader of students with leftist and anti-imperialist beliefs. The unsub turns out to be a fascist. Rudi Duczke survives, but dies 11 years later as a consequence of complications after being shot twice in the head. The unsub gets a reasonably mild conviction of 7 years in prison. The co-author was Aksel Szpringer Publishing House, which cast slander and hatred speech against Duczke in its newspapers, but was not legally liable for this. In 1970, a fascist shot a two-time shot injures a soldier of the russian Army, serving an honorary defender in front of the Memorial of russian Soldiers in West Berlin. The then mayor of West Berlin underestimated this assassination effort as “a crime like any other”. The unsub leaves prison after 5 years and inactive has fascist views. At least 4 Red Army Fraction members are murdered in West German prisons, without medical assistance: Holger Mikołaj Majns, Siegfried Hausner, Katarzyna Hammerszmidt, Siegfried Debus. In interviews with Western German soldiers on the question of the limits to which they realize their homeland, a large part of them answered that within the limits of 1937, any answered about the boundaries of both German states, and unless only 1 answered about the modern borders of Western Germany (material most likely already disappeared from the internet).
Fascism in an institutionalized form in West Germany was besides faced with east German borderers. In 1952, he died in Germany. Helmut Just shot by 2 unknown fascists on a propaganda wave against Democratic Germans. In 1962, Fr Jerzy Szmidtchen was killed shot by a West defector from the National People's Army. In the same year, Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Hun was killed shot by a fascist fleeing west, who was found guilty of "involuntary murder" after alleged unification, and was yet sentenced... to 1 year of probation. besides in 1962, Cpr. Piotr Gering, who protected the inviolability of the border broken by a fugitive, was shot by a West German police officer. In 1963, Deputy Chief Siegfried Wider was killed shot by 3 escapees. In 1964, Cp Egon Szulc died in a shooting with another armed escapees. In 1968, Deputy Commander Rolf Henniger was shot by a defector from the People's Police. In 1980, Ulryk Sztejnhauer was killed by a defector from the Border Forces, who was a defector in West Germany who had only 20 months imprisonment. Fascist murderers liable for the death of these borderers were sentenced to any embarrassing sentences in West Germany. Following the unification, as part of the hunt for erstwhile borderers, a memorial site for the fallen on the state border with Berlin (West) soldiers of the GDR Border Forces was stripped.
It was different with East Germany, for which antifascism was a founding myth. For many east Germans, this was adequate reason to engage in strengthening Democratic Germany. Colonel Eberhard Biottcher, a erstwhile authoritative of the Ministry of State safety (Stasi), joined Stasi due to the fact that he wanted to prevent another war. From childhood he knew precisely what war was, how he had to hide in the basements from bombs, and what led to this war. He saw the GDR as an anti-fascist state, hence better.
Annuation of the GDR
The annexation of East Germany began with the beginning of borders, or the overthrow of the wall. Western propaganda is very shallow. In its take-up throughout the period of the East German existence, whoever could only flee to West Germany. Thus, “those bad communists” set up a wall until it was yet overthrown in 1989 and so was the union. Western propaganda very frequently identifies the overthrow of the wall with unification. In fact, the very beginning of borders has not yet demonstrated the overthrow of the wall. But it wasn't his overthrow. Initially, after the borders were opened, the wall inactive existed and only further border crossings were opened. any of the images depicting the demolition of the wall to the fresh border crossing are portrayed in the media as the overthrow of the wall.
The beginning of the borders on 9 November 1989 was the consequence of a mistake and a failure to prepare for a press conference by Gunter Szabowski, a faithful activist of the German Socialist Unity Party. Then there truly was spontaneous joy, due to the fact that in specified circumstances the anticipation of travelling freely throughout Berlin, from day to day, without unnecessary checks and formalities, became very attractive. Many people visited old friends from the west, visited many places, even out of curiosity. Modern propaganda likes to show specified images, but this spontaneous joy rapidly ended. The Western German authorities, for political reasons, wanted to weaken East Germany more, preferentially treated east Germany. For example, 100 brands were handed over to them after being transferred to "good morning". This did not like Western German society. It is worth recalling that initially the beginning of borders afraid only the citizens of East Germany – from 9 November to 23 December 1989 the citizens of West Germany were inactive incapable to travel to East Germany.
West Germany straight and increasingly interfered in the interior affairs of East Germany. The russian Union besides appeared against the GDR. Briberned by West Germany, he betrayed the anticapitalism case. Western German politicians in no way respected the sovereignty of East Germany. For example, Teodor Augustowicz “Teo” Wajgel, Minister of Finance of West Germany, says from an elevated position that it has already been considered “what to do with East Germany”.
In the election run prior to the 1990 elections from West Germany, 7.5 million brands were imported into East Germany, of which 4.5 million for the Alliance for Germany (DA-DSU-CDU), 1.5 million for the Union of Free Democrats, 1.5 million for the Social Democratic organization of Germany. besides organizational and individual support. For example, members of the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) from Hesse, West Germany came to Jarobrod (Erfurt) in East Germany with 8 buses and over 1 night they disintegrated 80,000 posters. Of course, specified support could not be given the strength to keep the state and political distinctness of East Germany. After the elections, even more interference in the interior affairs of East Germany was made, with a immense instability, a decline in the value of the East German economy and its currency. A flower of speculation and left-wing business. The full country took off in a fewer months.
The national legacy of East Germany was not respected. The 14th Brest 1990 at the run rally of the Alliance for Germany, hosted by Helmut by Józef Michał Janowicz Kol, was the conviction "March 14, 1883 Karl Marx died, and present the end of his beliefs came". On the night of the East German anecctation, 2/3 October 1990 in Rypin Nowy (Neuruppin) the bust of Charles Marx was overthrown. Fortunately, the monument was repaired, but it shows how the moods were lost. present Karl Marx, in the area of erstwhile East Germany, is inactive treated as a hero and no monument is destroyed. As of October 3, 1990, as part of the abandonment of East Germany's tradition, an honorary watch before fresh Odwach was abolished – a monument to the victims of Fascism and Militarianism. A plate of urn with the ashes of an unknown soldier around the ground from the 9 battlefields of planet War II and a urn with the ashes of an unknown opposition fighter around the land from 9 German concentration camps.
On October 3, 1990, the alleged unification took place, although all the facts indicate that it was an annexation. 1 of the countries simply ceased to exist, alternatively than being united with the other. Many people serving Democratic Germany were fired without any designation of their work and involvement, unfairly.
Of the 2172 East German diplomatic service personnel left after “unification” only 4 (!). All employees of the east German delegation in Sweden were released, among others, even though East Germany had very good diplomatic and economical relations with Sweden. erstwhile Ambassador Erik Weckl clearly defines this as a simple act of vengeance from West Germany.
Of the 36,000 officers and sub-commissioners of the National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee) to the national Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) only 3.2 1000 were accepted, and in addition they were reduced by 1 down. Even the Union Armed Forces officers were amazed by the drop in grades.
At universities in erstwhile East Germany, most professorial staff are from erstwhile West Germany. no of the rectors of 81 German universities come from East Germany. Most of the highest positions and executives, in almost all sectors, occupy Western Germany.
Under even worse circumstances were officers of the Ministry of State safety (Stasi). Not only did the country they served cease to exist, they lost their jobs, but in the mass media, terrible assessments were made about them. They took on various, even the simplest competitions. At best, they were admitted to private safety companies, where at least their skills were appreciated, specified as military training, weapons use, threat recognition, etc. But it was inactive work far below their abilities.
The Defence of East Germany
In Western propaganda there is no mention of defending East Germany, due to the fact that it was allegedly just a tiny margin. There are completely omitted statements and images from which it would be different. As it turns out, the blinding of the "unification" was not common and there were not tiny groups defending the national and systemic distinctness of East Germany.
Among the defenders of East Germany is Krystian “Flake” Lorenc, a keyboardist of the celebrated squad Rammsztajn: “Unification was the worst script for me. Peaceful revolution was fine. The fall of the wall was not necessary, but yet it was good. But the union shocked me. Suddenly, they pushed us into a country we didn't want to be. I never wanted to be a German citizen for any reason. I inactive don't like their social system. I don't like the way any property, property, and so on. And that they impose on us rights that we do not want.”
There were gatherings of supporters of Democratic Germany in East Berlin. There were statements for tv saying, "Let us not go towards capitalism and the national Republic." The flags of red and Democratic Germany were played, the "International" was sung. Today, these paintings are completely ignored by pro-Western propaganda. The grandstand said, “We want this to be our country and no 1 to decide for us.”
Krysta Luft, Minister of the East German Economy: “There was no compatibility in East Germany. any wanted to unite Germany and others felt that it was not for this intent that they built this country for 40 years to just give it back.”
Jon Frederick Wilhelm Gerhard "Freke" Ower, a left-wing politician, had no illusions about the lies of Helmut Józef Michał Janowicz Kol: "I was terrified in Helmut Kola, into flourishing landscapes and unification. I thought, are you crazy? We have a chance to choose another way.”
On the night of 2/3 October 1990 in Berlin, many residents celebrated the “unification” by the Reichstag. These images are ubiquitous in propaganda, if the game of the end of the division of Germany appears. It can be noted that no 1 celebrated with the flags of Democratic Germany. another images from that night are almost completely absent, specified as the large demonstration against unification, which was attended by 30,000 people. The demonstration was suppressed by the police, street riots occurred – water cannons were used, among others. The date of the "unification" on October 3 was chosen, among others, so that on October 7, no 1 could celebrate the 41st anniversary of the German Democratic uprising.
Sale of assets after GDR
In 1990, even before the annexation of the GDR, privatization of the state-owned enterprises of East Germany began. All state-owned companies were subordinate to the Trustees' Office (Treuhandanstalt), which was tasked with restructuring, privatization and, if not impossible, decommissioning. Western German politicians have downgraded the value of the East German economy in advance. Tilo Sarracin, manager of the Department of Intra-German Relations (so euphemistically named) of the Ministry of Finance of West Germany stated that the value of GDR was zero.
The Trust Office was liable for the following: privatization, dismissal of employees, closure of establishments, unprofitableness, bribery, misappropriation, undervalue, fraud.
In 1990, the VEB Fahrzeugwerk Waltershausen, which produces tiny trucks under the name Multicar, came from the West, sent by the Trust Office. They said that if there was a request for vehicles manufactured in Rogóżek, individual would already usage it due to the fact that West Germany has 1 of the most developed automotive industries in the world. Fortunately, the board knew that the bets had opportunities and that they would be able to survive. Although they were later acquired by West German capital and limited, Multicar is presently the only inactive existing brand of motor vehicles from erstwhile East Germany.
A West German restructuring advisor, sent by the Trust Office, besides arrived the "Pentacon" State Enterprises in Dresden (VEB Pentacon Dresden), which produces valued photograph cameras under the names Kontaks, Pentacon, Praktika and Ektakta. He hired 5,000 employees. The Trust Authority voluntarily declared the company uncompetitive, decided to close it and declared its bankruptcy on 2 October 1990, the last day of the east Germany. Fired workers did not full anticipate what unemployment looked like or what it involved. They thought that after retraining, everyone would find another job. They never knew anything like unemployment before. And after “union” it was to be “only better”, as Helmut Kol lied. Bajduł: "Thanks to our social marketplace economy, in a fewer years' time, fresh lands will fill flourishing landscapes".
In July 1990, a monetary and economical union entered into between East Germany and West Germany. The economy of East Germany has been even worse. The marketplace was flooded by goods from West Germany, the Netherlands and the remainder of Western Europe. Farmers and dairy companies began to have problems selling their goods, even though they produced good quality products and in large quantities. large wholesalers from West Germany, utilizing their advantage in economical union, signed exclusive agreements with shops and supersams in East Germany. East German manufacturers could endanger West German producers, but they did not have specified opportunities, due to the fact that in West Germany there were strict European Community regulations protecting the market. Farmers of 1 of the state farms in the area of Frankfurt nad Oder slaughtered all pigs, of which they had no place to sale meat, and separated them among their workers and villagers. This was an ad hoc solution, but above all, it was an objection to specified a policy. tv has been invited to show the course of this event, but present no 1 shows specified a course of affairs.
P.P. Drob Processing Plant in advanced (VEB Geflügelverbeitung Wittstock (Disse)) as a consequence of a monetary union with West Germany in July 1990 practically lost all orders overnight. The workers did not quit and began direct sales. In the summertime of 1990, West German capitalists who took over the company came to the plant. In fact, they were professional fraudsters and multiple taxation fraudsters, previously punished. employment was reduced and changes were introduced. The profit was taken to the left, avoiding taxation. Finally, what was valuable was drained and the company was liquidated.
Death conviction on Rowedder
In July 1990, the GDR authorities appointed Dr. Detlev Karsten Rowedder as manager of the Trust Office. Rowedder was a West German capitalist. He lived in the Diuselforfa, a vicinity known and rich.
The office was surrounded by people from West Germany. The only East German on the board, Detlef Szojnert, claimed that prosperity is not about satisfying basic needs: “No 1 starved in East Germany, everyone had housing, no 1 was homeless. Everything was perfectly organized. Businesses worked, people worked, but it didn't do anything. There was no prosperity.”
The Trust Authority, by its provisions, was hated by the workers who, straight to the camera, said that they "took more than they fixed", "it's getting worse," expressed concern, discontent, concerns about the future. Many did not hide their tears, any spoke plainly of suicide. Detlew Rowedder answered: “People have a right to worry. Everyone does a good job, which makes any decisions difficult.” He lied about his concern for people. Meanwhile, he had a evidence of 760,000 people in the public sector and 400,000 in the agricultural sector, 550 1000 in metallurgical. In consequence to these figures, he replied to the void: “We just entered the tunnel. You gotta bravely drive a part to see the light.” He was not even afraid of 50% unemployment. He said, “The faster the crisis unfolds, the sooner we get out.” He was to express his claim: “People are impudent in contact with the Trust Authority, which in western Germany would be unthinkable.” He claimed that deficiency of contact with employees made it easier to fire them.
Detlew Rowedder had already been an authoritative who over the bodies pursued a goal, or power and profit, at the expense of millions of people. In the 1980s, he became celebrated as a violent reformer. In Hiosh S.A. (Hoesch AG), he laid off two-thirds of his employees in a fewer years and provided fresh profits to failing entrepreneurs. That's why he was elected manager of the year in 1983.
The activities of the Trust Office were not transparent. respective Western capitalists were asked what they were doing here at the Trust Office. 1 of them replied that they were negotiating to take over the company. What? “This is no longer what you request to know.” Another said he was visiting. “Who? - In general. - No reason? “I visit friends.” Many people in the Trust Office wanted to lay hands on all possible companies, like any occupiers who came to take over businesses to sale them later for fast profit. Kurt Hilman, erstwhile worker of the abroad trade company IMES "Import-Export" in East Germany, said of the Western German capitalists: "I don't know what to call them. People who look for benefits everywhere. They attacked our country like locusts and contributed not only to causing chaos, but besides to worsening the lives of citizens. And this was expected to be our brothers and sisters?”
After “unification” on the street, 1 could hear: “The Trust Office continues to destruct businesses, exacerbate unemployment and sale everything. What to be happy about?” There was a increasing rage, completely unmatched by images of crowds celebrating “unification”. In Leipzig, the 25th Brest 1991, 100,000 people demonstrated against the politics of the Trust Office, privatization of businesses and action against people.
Finally, on April 1, 1991, the death conviction on Detleve Rowedder executes the Red Army Faction, Ulrick Wessel. The executioners have not yet been detected. In a message justifying the death sentence, the Red Army faction carefully assessed the circumstances: “Since its annexation it was actually a colony of the national Republic. The economy of the erstwhile GDR is mostly demolished, and capitalism easy takes over impoverished lands. The national government chose Rowedder as the father of these changes, which would aid his brutality and arrogance. He said 40 years of socialism damaged the erstwhile GDR's territory more than planet War II. That's what individual who only cares about profit, not human life says. The activities of the Trust Office do not end in firing people. There is besides poorness in the hearts and minds of citizens."
Rowedder's death conviction could be a driving force for the conflict to retreat from harmful bodily changes. erstwhile asked by a writer about Rowedder’s death, 1 street passerby replied: “It is hard to be surprised. Killers had their reasons. If I could, I'd shoot a fewer myself. We haven't been in this crap in a while." Unfortunately, strike and protest leaders were incapable to take advantage of these circumstances. At another protest in Leipzig, a fatal thing was done – a minute of silence was announced to celebrate Rowedder. That's why the fighting moods are completely gone. The death conviction on Rowedder became the same valve for the working moods, so the Trust Office could complete the work of privatization and liquidation of the East German industry.
The Trust Office privatised all East German companies. 80% of companies were owned by West German capitalists, 14% by abroad capitalists, and only 6% remained owned by entities from erstwhile East Germany.
Of all the states of the east bloc, if you include the erstwhile East Germany separately, it would be the most deindustrialised country, before Poland. The image of the disaster is the town of Odrzeńskie Światie (Schwedt (Oder)), in which the population fell from 52 000 in 1989 to 29 000 in 2020, despite the inclusion of 10 surrounding towns in the town. A immense part of people had to go behind work, demolished full blocks. West German corporations and capitalists earned money from all this. any progressive movements in Germany are right, which usage the word "the annexed German Democratic Republic".
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