On 2 October 1990, at the ceremony on the eve of German unity, Lothar de Maizière, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), gives an address in which he describes the historic impact of the creation of a reunified German state.
‘It’s reunification …’ In 1990, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, illustrates the fears and mistrust of the Western countries regarding the fresh clout of the reunified Germany on the international stage.
In 1994, the Federal German Government invests heavily in modernising the economies of the former GDR Länder, as shown on this sign outside an industrial site in Saxony-Anhalt.
