| In the following days, Austria was incorporated into Germany as the German province of Ostmark. |
| Like nearly all former East Germans, he is unsentimental about the Ostmark. |
| Germany was for a long time dominated by the Ostmark, which became Austria. |
| Germany's introduction of a common currency upon reunification proved costly because the East's ostmark had a preunification value just one-fourth that of the deutsche mark. |
| The President asked me to advise on the economics, particularly the plan by Kohl to exchange one deutsche mark for one ostmark. |
| Thus, bell confiscations were undertaken in Austria as vigorously as they were in Germany, with the Ostmark losing more than 72 per cent of its bells. |
