Press 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Families in eastern and western Germany are becoming more and more similar

Press release No. N 008 of 7 November 2019

WIESBADEN – 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the differences in family life between East and West are fading away. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports this to coincide with anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2019.