The establishment’s “firewall” against opposition parties creates a new East-West divide and a two-tier society It’s been more than a third of a century since the German unification of 1990. Between Hamburg and Munich and Cologne and Frankfurt-on-Oder, you’ll easily find adults who have no personal memory of the country’s Cold War division, and even quite a few who were born after it. Germany divided, in other words, is history. And yet, it isn’t. That’s what this year’s Day of German Unity – a