The division of Germany

The East and West Germany came into being in 1949, after almost 80 years of running as a joint state. (For Details see appendix)

During the Cold War, FRG and GDR swerved in their social experiences for the first time from 1871. While the economic and social rebuilding of the FRG was directed by the self-governing consumerist West, the reconstruction of GDR was strongly administered by the Soviet Union. Progressively, while the Cold War attained its peak, the Soviet Union established it essential to build up an “East German national identity” like a way of maintaining power over the region. Therefore, the Germans were no more assumed to share the similar experiences and values and the adherence to the identical territory, but rather undergo alienation because of the ideological differentiations of the Soviet Union and the U.S.

The crisis of conferring national and cultural dissimilarities among East and West Germany is in the mock superimposition of the political differentiations among the people of the same cultural and historical past. Regardless of the lately created separate political characteristics, the citizens of West and East Germany were from the same place, and their belief and values systems were basically identical. The new socialist distinctiveness created by the socialist heads of East Germany was a mock body, and it might not obtain strong seize with those citizens who came of age in the years prior to 1949. The cohort born in the years following the division of Germany was very inclined to the fresh ideology; however the system was not ready for an extended adequate time for these values to begin (Library of Congress, Ch. 3). This was extra provoked by the differentiations in the living standards among the people of West and East Germany, and a particular extent of jealousy undergone ...