Attitude to Unification of the Two German Nations (March 1990)

Attitude to unification of the two German nations.

Topics: Confidence in the future; judgement on one´s own economic
situation at the current point in time as well as in a year; preferred
manner of cooperation of FRG and USA; national pride; attitude to
admission of emigrants from the GDR, ethnic Germans from East Bloc
nations, guest workers and persons seeking asylum; assessment of the
burdens for the Federal Republic arising from this; attitude to
unification of the two German nations; short-term and long-term
expected consequences of unification (two comparable scales); expected
advantages of reunification for businesses or workers; readiness for
social and political changes in the framework of unification;
preference for sovereignty of the GDR and presumed standpoint of the
population in both the East and West on this question; desired point in
time for unification; estimated time required to reach western standard
of living in the GDR; expected influence of GDR elections on the flow
of emigrants from East Germany; ability of the parties in questions of
unification; effects of currency union on the stability of monetary
value; capability of the FRG to construct a new GDR economy; party
preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election 1987; satisfaction with party voted for; religiousness;
interest in moving to the GDR.