My final project will encompass the entirety of Germany. My scale will be the years 1986-1992. I will focus on the population change in East and West Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
My research question is as follows: How was the population of East and West Germany impacted by the collapse of the Berlin Wall? I want to answer this question because I am fascinated with the aftermath of communist failure and how many people sought to find citizenship in the capitalist world once they were free to do so.
