The speed with which change was brought to East Germany was almost unfathomable. By one estimate 80% of East German workers, at some point in the post-reunification years, found themselves out of a job. You see it in a small, but persistent economic gap. Wages in the East are between 80 to 85%, the average of what they are in the West. There's a productivity gap. The proportion of large German companies that are headquartered in the East is absolutely tiny. And then you have things like, they call it the transfer of elites, of the sort of upper echelon of public jobs in the East, only 4% of them are occupied by East