31.   Then came the collapse of Communism and German unification.

32.   Under the German unification treaty, only acts that were illegal under former East German law can be prosecuted.

33.   A Hamburg native, Reineck moved to Leipzig after German unification.

34.   A decade later, Kohl planned German unification there as communism collapsed.

35.   After German unification, Berlin courts cleared his record and granted him the right to apply for restitution.

36.   Almost five years after German unification, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that spies of the former East Germany are subject to only limited criminal prosecution.

37.   At the time, just months before German unification, the newly created PDS held vast assets as successor to the communists.

38.   At the time, just months before German unification, the PDS as successor to the communists held vast assets.

39.   Berlin Wall falls in November, Kohl seizes on it to secure German unification.

40.   Bremer Vulkan, based in Bremen, bought shipyards in eastern Germany as well after German unification.