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...mired in difficulty. To find out why, Bonn bureau chief James 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...
...that the chief obstacle to normalization of the east is psychological, not political or economic. "All of these people were formed by repressive relationships almost from the moment they were born," says Maaz, head of the department of psychotherapy at Deaconess Hospital in Halle, a dingy industrial city near Leipzig. "The authority of the father was replaced by the authority of teachers and then by the authority of the state." The result is a society of spiraling violence. "The lid is off," says Maaz, "so now the repressed violence can escape. It will get worse because of new social problems...
...violence is showing itself most ominously in scattered eruptions of neo- Nazism. Swastikas are turning up on the walls of Berlin and Cottbus and Leipzig, put there not by elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...
Smidt is ready to make his move even now: he plans to open a branch of his firm, Ecoplan, in Leipzig. He is well prepared, having spent many a vacation since the early '70s traveling in the East. "What pleases me," he says, "is that after 40 years of totalitarianism, independent thinking remains in the East. The people never identified with the communist state...
...case with other East German newspapers. Junge Welt has lost more than half its 1.6 million subscribers, and collapse is imminent. Berliner Zeitung is a takeover target of powerful West German publishing houses. Regional newspapers from Leipzig to Rostock are in similar straits. "During the past few months, we were able to do what we wanted for the first time in our careers," says Oschmann. "We had freedom that we never had before. But it won't last...