That 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 borde

That 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.