20% of Germans want the Wall back

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Fourteen years and a trillion euros after reunification, nearly one in five Germans would like to see the barrier that split the country during the cold war put back, according to a survey released yesterday.

A poll by the Forsa institute found that a quarter of west Germans wished the 15 million east Germans could be cut off again by the Berlin wall, while 12% of east Germans did not want to be part of the united country.

Many westerners said they were disgruntled because they had had to foot the bill for reunification - 24% said they had suffered financially as a result.

In the formerly communist east, where wages are still below western levels and unemployment is twice as high, a third said they were no better off financially because of unification and the end of communism.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1300142,00.html

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2. Posted earlier today

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