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Many of the people who started the protests in East Germany did not have the aim of reunification either. Their goal was to reform and open up the system. Only
by ema 9y ago
Many of the people who started the protests in East Germany did not have the aim of reunification either. Their goal was to reform and open up the system. Only later when the protests had swelled up in numbers did the slogan of "Wir sind ein Volk" appear.
- woodpanel 9y agoThat is true. Technically, to be precise, it wasn't so much a reunification as it was an annexation. Wanted by the majority of people on both sides of the border. While I doubt, that anything else than a single Germany would have happened after all - how the reunification came to be could have certainly be different. But looking at the options that are usually brought up when speaking about "the lost chances" of remaining an independent but free East Germany, the implications are usually so undesirable and unrealistic, that a) those still complaining about it come across as melancholic revanchists and b) the reunification as it happened seems to have been inevitable.