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Article: Is eastern Germany really bouncing back?
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 6, 1994
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THE new Opel car plant in Eisenach, a town in the eastern German state of Thuringia, is one of the world's most advanced. A planned DM2.7 billion ($1.7 billion) factory for making silicon chips, to be built in Dresden by Siemens, Germany's biggest electronics company, is also being hailed as state-of-the-art. Eastern Germany's shipbuilding industry, revived with big investments from western owners, will be among Europe's most efficient. German magazines now illustrate their articles about ex-East German industry with pictures of workers in surgical garb manning high- tech machines.
Dwell on such prodigies and you might conclude that eastern Germany's industry has not ...