Women in East and West Germany: Victims of Discrimination, Humiliation, Domination

Violence and fear of violence in East and West Germany.

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of major social changes in Germany since 1989 on mortality due to intentional injury. Mechanisms and types of fatal intentional injury in East and West Germany between 1970 and 1995 were determined from death certificates and compared with judicial data on violent crime convictions and recent public survey data on citizen fear of crime. The ...

Political Culture : Differences in East and West Germany

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Determinants of East-West-migration in Germany: A macroeconometric analysis

A main feature characterising the transition process of eastern Germany is the scope with which East-West migration took place before, during, and after the German reunification. Overall, 4 million individuals left East Germany to migrate to the west between 1989 and 2007 (gross migration). Taking into account West-East migration, cumulative net migration amounted to 1.7 million persons. This r...

The Long-Standing Demographic East-West-Divide in Germany

A cell physiologist between East and West Germany.

I was born in 1942 in the small city of Halberstadt. My fa8 ther was a surgeon and owned a small private clinic, he ended 9 up in jail in 1943 when he said something critical about 10 the Nazi regime. In April 1945, Halberstadt was bombed 11 flat. My mother fled with me as a little child into the rocks 12 surrounding the city. In May 1945, the Nazi regime ended 13 and my father was released as ...