Answer:
East Germans were in a worse financial position than West Germans because the East German communist command economy limited economic prosperity.
Explanation:
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. The country was a member of both the Warsaw Pact and Comecon. It state ceased to exist on October 3, 1990, when its states, which had earlier applied for entry into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), were reunited with West Germany.
The Republic saw itself as a "socialist state of workers and peasants". Like the other real socialist Eastern Bloc countries, it remained largely dependent on the Soviet Union during the four decades of it existence.
