Witte, James C.; Wagner, Gert G. - 1996
East and West Germany. For many years, in particular from the late fifties through the mid-seventies, fertility patterns in …-seventies, total fertility in the East increased relative to the West. Subsequently, fertility decreased during the final years of the … GDR and then plummeted shortly after Unification. Today the popular expectation is that East German fertility will rebound …