» Treuhand « for many East Germans, the term is still synonymous with arbitrariness, economic power and non-transparent deals. A difficult-to-understand system in which the powerful pushed the fillets of the East German economy back and forth without considering losses This once largest state holding in the world not only turned the entire Eastern economy inside out, it was itself also an instrument of the respective political circumstances, and these changed several times during this time. Government firmly: In order to "preserve public property," the GDR companies were to be, privatized, redeveloped or shut down. The book "Die Treuhand, ein Deutsches Drama" traces the history of the polarizing institution. Based on the economic situation in 1989/90, the starting conditions, opportunities and problems of the imminent economic transformation are ,presented, in order to make it clear with the aid of specific case studies: The decline of a company shaped entire regions all over the East - and changed people's lives lastingly. The diversity of the stories makes the multi-faceted work of the Treuhandanstalt clear in all its ambivalence: sometimes it was a helper, sometimes a brake block and sometimes a gravedigger.
