10/84Value of bank loans to the East German government guaranteed by West Germany: $730,000,000
3/84Books published in East Germany in honor of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s birth: 150
In West Germany: 50
12/85Percentage growth in West Germany’s gross national product in 1984: 4.6
10/90Percentage increase, since last year, in the number of traffic accidents in East Germany: 49
11/90Amount the German government has pledged to help pay for U.S. military operations in the Gulf: $1,000,000,000
Amount it has pledged to pay the Soviet Union to resettle Soviet troops stationed in East Germany: $13,000,000,000
5/90Number of dating services created in Magdeburg, East Germany, since last November: 7
7/90Amount the West Berlin city government has paid East Germany to dump trash there since 1975: $700,000,000
7/90Number of East German spies still operating in West Germany, according to West Germany: 5,000
7/90Number of West Germans expected to file claims for property seized by East Germany since 1949: 500,000
7/90Number of votes received by the Beer Drinkers Union in the East German elections held last March: 2,534
Number of votes received by the Unification Now party: 2,396
12/91Portion of eastern German gross annual product accounted for by government transfers from western Germany: 7/10
12/91Chances that an eastern German acknowledges “some sympathy for radical rightist tendencies”: 1 in 5
11/92Change, since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, in the percentage of western Germans who say they suffer indigestion: +5
Change, since then, in the percentage of eastern German who say they suffer indigestion: -12
2/93Asking price for Amerika, a 27-acre town in eastern Germany’s Karl Marx County: $7,000,000
5/93Percentage of U.S. spies in East Germany since 1948 who proved to be double agents, according to the CIA: 100
9/93Number of East Germans who have joined Weight Watchers since 1990: 70,000
1/98Estimated total eastern German spending on fighter jets that NATO expansion will necessitate: $10,000,000,000
5/05Average number of East Germans who died each year trying to cross to West Germany: 18
6/05Chance that a resident of the former East Germany wants the Berlin Wall back: 1 in 8