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This 8 page paper examines the contrast between East and West Germany between World War II and 1990, when reunification took place. Included is a history of both countries.
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times, has been the "whipping boy" of blame among the international community; its runaway inflation during the 1930s didnt do much to help the worlds economy. And as an instigator
of two World Wars, as well as the author of some of the most horrifying atrocities of our times. Interestingly enough, however, much of Germanys divisiveness between 1949 through 1990
came about, not solely because of internal problems. Deitrich Orlow, in his book A History of Modern Germany, 1871 to the Present, discusses asymmetrical modernization (especially in the time of
"two Germanys" when one half would be surging forward while the other lagged behind). Also a factor in divisiveness was the influence of outside countries.
Germany, always a country of "city-states" was further divided into zones following the Second World War ("Germany"). This was done, partly as a check to curb what
was feared might be a return of Nazi aggression, and partly as punishment of the nation. Exhausted and humiliated from the war and the betrayal of Adolph Hitler, and shellshocked
from the constant rumble of bombs throughout the war, Germans also suffered shortages of food a bad economy and, in parts of eastern Germany, the return of millions of German
refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had lived in former German territories ("Germany")
At that time, the country was sliced up much like an uneven pie: the allied forces, consisting of Great Britain, France and the United
States took control of western portions and various of the country, while the eastern side were under the jurisdiction of Poland and the Soviet Union ("Germany"). Because of the Soviet
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