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...Jackson and correspondent Daniel Benjamin traveled across the republic for several months. They spoke with economists in Munich, psychologists in Halle and Wuppertal, even frightened foreigners in a western asylum camp. They attended classes at the University of Leipzig, interviewed fledgling eastern businessmen, and met with youth workers in Berlin. From the windows of a Soviet-built helicopter, Jackson snapped photographs of military bases, an unheard-of act only two years...
Finally it has come together for the Germans. After years of waiting and praying, Germany is one nation again, a people united. The Berlin Wall, once the ugliest scar on a wounded country, has been knocked down, its pieces carted off to a huge depot for resale as art or to be crushed for use as roadway ballast. The border fences marking the Iron Curtain that for so long divided Europe have been dismantled...
...have imagined. Only a year ago, on July 1, 1990, monetary union made the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic a single economic zone. Three months later, on Oct. 3 -- henceforth to be the national day -- the raising of the black, red and gold flag above the Reichstag in Berlin made Germany a single political entity. It should have ushered in a prolonged period of rejoicing, a time for rebuilding...
...Burda and the Axel Springer group. One result is an outpouring of sensationalist and sometimes sleazy newspapers and magazines targeted specifically for the east. The western quality press is barely penetrating the new market. "They don't have anything to say to us," says Marion Fischer, an east Berlin translator...
...wonder that the image of the Wessi is a fat man with alligator-hide shoes and a Mercedes-Benz, a Goldgraber, best translated as carpetbagger. "They are unbelievably arrogant," says Stephan Engelberger, 24, an east Berlin hairdresser who recently opened his own salon. "They have plenty of money, but they come over here because everything is cheaper. They behave as if everything belongs to them, as if they know it all and we are stupid...