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German Reunification - Unfinished Business (Paperback)
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German Reunification - Unfinished Business (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of
land were forced from their homes in the eastern sector by the
Soviets, now in control of that area. These families were brutally
evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the
next 45 years, the GDR government would come to control all of the
agricultural land. At reunification in 1990, the earlier abuse of
these farmers was compounded when the German government would not
restore any of this expropriated land to these families. The German
government falsely accused the Soviet Union of insisting on
non-restitution as a condition of reunification. Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev unequivocally denies this claim and insists that
land issues are a German problem to resolve. The temporary
land-trust agency, established by the German government in 1990 to
dispose of land it inherited from the GDR, continues to exist.
After 25 years, this agency still holds almost 20 percent of this
expropriated land. Its agents, most of whom were reared in GDR,
decide who may (or may not) lease land, the conditions of the
lease, and if and when a farmer may buy land - circumstances that
remain deeply controversial. Joyce Bromley draws on extensive field
research, and previously untapped sources, to explore the
reliability of the government's version of these important events.
Is the German government once again, without shame, discriminating
against a group of its own citizens?
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