Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anniversary, when President Richard von Weizsacker tried to deliver an eloquent appeal against hatred from behind a phalanx of police shields, while leftist anarchists chanted "Hypocrites, hypocrites," and pelted him with eggs. That denouement nearly obscured the meaning of a day when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, Germans have watched...
...scene in Berlin only reinforced the unsettling impression that disorder is taking over the streets of Germany and the country is unable to stop it. Although racism is not just a German problem and comparisons with Hitler's state-sponsored pogroms of the 1930s are greatly exaggerated, the world cannot help asking why such behavior is happening again...
...classic symptoms that accompany unemployment -- depression and a sense of powerlessness -- beset much of the eastern region. Deep down, a lot of the anger is really at western Germans for shutting down factories and farms, but easterners are reluctant to say so. Instead, says Michael Wieczorek, a Berlin social worker, the foreigners become surrogate targets...
...member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
...young in the east. And Bonn will have to stop treating the violence as a public relations problem. In seeing xenophobia and racism for the evils they are, the Kohl government can begin to follow the lead of the hundreds of thousands who gathered peacefully in the streets of Berlin...