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The problem has been well known for years: Ever since the mid-1990s, young Eastern Germans have been fleeing the region due to a lack of economic opportunity, hoping to find jobs in the western part of the country. Some 1.5 million have already left the region -- roughly 10 percent of the population of East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell. Even w

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jordan11
May 31, 2007, 1:26 p.m.
the young men who stay behind are often poorly educated, unemployed and frustrated -- perfect fodder for neo-Nazi groups looking for members.>>>
I think that has more to do with the rise in neo-Nazi's. Maybe the women are leaving because they can't stand that kind of man.
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Radiofreeeuropa
May 31, 2007, 1:32 p.m.
This is strange. I have a mosquito trap that attracts female mosquitoes, no females, no mosquitoes. Dare I suggest....
Nah.
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ETproductions
May 31, 2007, 2:09 p.m.
Can't Germany with its productive might build factories in the East to take advantage of that large, underemployed labor pool?
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Tolchock
May 31, 2007, 5:23 p.m.
Great article but the argument is a little simplistic.. one could argue that the lack of women in East Germany would lead to an increase in homosexual activity as well although that might be more difficult to document and confirm..
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crespi
June 1, 2007, 12:06 p.m.
The German White Supremacists have also totally infiltrated the German environmental movement.