Are there any good books in English about the mechanics of German reunification?
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Re. point 3, the German wikipedia has an article on that topic. It seems that for approximately 100 deaths along the border around West Berlin, around 110 former soldiers were tried. Most of them received six months to two years on probation. One former soldier was sentenced to ten years (without probation) for killing someone who had already surrendered.
There were similar trials for the approximately 500 deaths along the border between East and West Germany.
A number of upper military ranks and political functionaries, including the state and party leadership, were also tried. Those defendants usually received harsher sentences than the low-level soldiers. The East German minister of defense was sentenced to 7.5 years. The most prominent defendants (Erich Honecker, Erich Mielke) were not sentenced due to ill health.
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You should read about the Treuhand.
Keep in mind that there was roughly a year between the "fall of communism" and complete reunification. At first it wasn't quite clear if and when reunification would come, or if the GDR would simply reform itself. But pretty soon it became obvious that people would simply leave if the material wealth of the FRG wasn't shared quickly.
Re 1. Certain laws did apply retroactively to the benefit of the inmates, but by and large criminal convictions did stand. There is a process to have GDR sentences appealed, even retroactively. Strafrechtliches Rehabilitierungsgesetz
Re 2. That's complicated. Some restitutions were possible, some where not, and there are still trials going on.
Re 5. Trigonometry was still trigonometry and grammar was still grammar. It did change subjects like civics and history, and also teachers who had been vocal in their support of the old regime. But everybody knew that not paying lip service to Communist orthodoxy was difficult.
There are still intense debates about what went right and wrong, from "FRG capitalists profited by destroying viable GDR industries" to "the GDR economy was totally broke and the 'old states' subsidized the 'new states' with several trillion Euro."
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