Newspapers published a colored map showing voting patterns across the city, showing the Christian Democrats in black and the PDS, the successor to East German dictator Erich Honecker's Socialist Unity Party, in red. Bush Made a German Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl attended a ceremony at Berlin's City Hall on Monday to confer honorary German citizenship on former U.S. President George Bush. The Wall came down during Bush's presidency. The Christian Democrats carried the election, but it was a wakeup call to the government. On top of the economic divide, envy, resentment and distrust are splitting East and West.
Easterners feel they are treated like second-class citizens.
A few slabs of concrete are all that remain of the wall. A path of cobblestones snaking through Berlin now marks the old divide. Even the optimists say it may take another decade, even another generation, to bring that barrier down. Since unification in 1990, hundreds of former East German border guards and officials have been convicted on charges related to shooting those trying to flee to the West. Keep up on the latest developments on this story and the rest of Europe by clicking here to our Raw News page.