Social Dificulties Caused In Germany By Its Separation

During 1949 Germany was divided between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) GDR for short and the German Federal Republic (West Germany) GFR. During that time police and soldiers weredeployed to keep the borderline between these two republics safe until the barriers were built, Berlin was then officially divided causing social and economic problem to all the habitants. During the timethe cold war was intensified and the lack of support from the COMECON the GDR was in a state of diplomatic disarray leading to the frontier being reinforced. The main issued caused by the dividedGermanys was that the people were separated from their family and the crisis in which East Germany was lead people to leave the country.
The day Germany was divided into two sides east and west thepolice was deployed at the frontiers of each side preventing people from crossing. Berlin was divided and many of those that live on the west side and were on the east while Germany was divided were notallowed to go back, families were separated without notice.
The separation of the two sides was not only a geopolitical division or a physical separation but ones that were created on the level ofindividuals. Long before the construction of the berlin wall began. In 1961 the Germans were forging identities and barriers in the absence of any ethnic differences like language or ideologicaldifferences we see on divided communities nowadays. The image that western Germany had of the east one had completely changed, associating their brothers in the soviet occupied side with vagabond. On adaily basis kids dressed with nothing more than dirty rags would cross the border to the west side to ask for food and spare change thus labeling the east side as vagabonds. Making them worried about whatwas happening on the other side of the iron curtain.
The low quality life in east Germany had as a consequence that many of its citizens stated to leave the country specially the young one that...