Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "The Rise of the East German Economy" video.

  1. My grandmother was born in 1934 in what is now Poland but now lives in West Germany as she did since the beginning of West Germany. Granny always stated that the hardest year was 1946 and the winter of 1947. No transport, no fertilisers made for poor harvests. Greatgranddad died three days before the end of the war leaving her and her brother fatherless. No food. In the winter of 1947 she and her brother scavenged for the potato greens on the barren fields covered in snow so they had something to eat. Never had she been more grateful than for a Care Packet. Had she not received this generous aid it may have been her death and I wouldn’t be here. Contrasting that with the complete destruction of Germany in the four years after the war. Never has a country been cured faster of an ideology after the total defeat and annihilation of the state and society. Granny is 90 years old now and still going on strong It was unreal for those children that 10 years afterwards there was no shortage of anything anymore. My granduncle stayed in East Germany and despite being generally poorer than West Germany; all basic necessities were available at all times in good enough quality and quantity, safe for housing maybe.
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