Jens George Reich stated: "People imagine that reunification will be the answer to all their dreams." While reunification marked the official end of communism in Germany, in reality the problems arose from unexpected processes by the German people. Reunification was implemented ineffectively by incompetent management under unfavorable economic and social circumstances which had political, economic and social consequences as the problems associated with the East far outweighed the benefits that could be provided by the West. Indeed, German citizens dreamed that the West could provide a degree of peace and economic stability that would strengthen a cohesive German identity. Despite Germans' favorable view of reunification, the initial stages failed to create a basis on which Germany could respond to people's dreams. of peace, prosperity and unity. The collapse of communism in Europe meant a change in people's way of thinking because the East Germans had suffered repression for forty years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the free elections of March 1990, a positive vision for the future and faith in freedom began to proliferate among East Germans. German Chancellor Kohl had an optimistic outlook for the future and believed that German free enterprise would create “economic miracles.” This new way of thinking was growing in East Berlin before the problems of reunification soon grew within society. Indeed, the early stages of reunification did not meet people's dreams of a democratic society free from debt and repression. Contrary to Chancellor Brandt's statement that “what belongs together would now grow together…… half of the paper…… arose after unification demonstrated that reunification did not respond to the short-term dream of a unified identity of the Germans, but it created many areas of debate and division, as evidenced by the increase in racial violence. Although citizens of East and West Germany dreamed that the reunification process would bring peace, economic stability, and a renewed sense of nationalism, this was not the case. Reunification fulfilled their dreams of freedom and an official end to communism to a limited extent, but it also brought obstacles and difficulties that people had not identified in advance, such as high unemployment rates following reunification. These factors unexpectedly came to create division and instability that German politicians, businessmen, families and workers had to work through during and after the reunification of Germany...