But an increasing number of western Germans also move to the east.

Almost half of western Germans are Catholics, while the percentage in the east is much smaller.

People are also coming to us because we are staffed by western Germans.

And even now, the sophistication of western Germans does not extend so easily to the easterners.

Among some, it is causing fraternal strife between eastern and western Germans.

Much of their unhappiness is rooted in economic dislocation, and a sense that western Germans look down on them.

No western German would take such a trip, but easterners fill every available bus.

That is the derogatory term western Germans use for people from the east.

Near-daily items describe how western Germans are grabbing properties in the east.

At the same time, she provides comfort to western Germans who were suspicious about the economic and social drain of reunification.