Page 7- Restructuring the Unified Germany
The division of the city had resulted in the development of separate systems
for police, fire, post, and other services. When the country was reunified,
these systems became redundant and had to be integrated. This presented
huge problems in the form of assigning people new positions because of
differences in training, cuts in positions, and elimination of positions.
This integration generally hurt easterners because they were not as well
trained as westerners. Another change in structure that occurred after
reunification was the changing of street names in East Berlin. Any streets
that bore names memorializing the socialist
Top: German police
car.
Bottom: German
fire truck.
system and its heroes were changed. Lenin Square became the Square of
Nations and Ho-Chi-Minh Street is now Gandhi Street. This discarding of
the socialist names was a further daily indicator that socialism lost
the Cold War.
