Identity Conflicts and Search for Identity of the East Germans July 1990

National identity and political attitudes in the process of German-German unification. Topics: Interest in politics; attitude to German-German unification; pace of unification; government treaty between GDR and FRG; expectations of currency, economic and social union; regulations of the all-German constitution; effects of unity of Germany on Europe; affiliation of Germany with a military alliance; promotion of friendship with the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe; openness for foreign workers as well as reasons for and against; national identity; understanding of native country; judgement on life in the GDR; assessment of the founding of the GDR; stand on the political and social system of the FRG; preferred sources of information; regulation characteristics of the relationship to one's native country; typcial characteristics of citizens of the GDR; differences between GDR and FRG citizens; place of residence.