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1.	Adenauer’s State Visit to Moscow (September 9-13, 1955) After being integrated into Western defense structures and recovering full sovereignty in May 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany engaged in direct talks with the Soviet Union. On September 13,....
2.	Analysis of Denazification Categories in the Western Occupation Zones (1949-1950) This statistical overview of denazification in the three Western occupation zones should be interpreted with great caution. It is difficult to draw comparisons among zones, since the completeness....
3.	Correspondence between Nikolai Bulganin and Konrad Adenauer on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the USSR and the Federal Republic of Germany (September 13-14, 1955) The Federal Republic and the Soviet Union established full diplomatic relations in September 1955. On this occasion, Konrad Adenauer made it clear to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin that this did....
4.	Decree on Aid Measures for Former Political Prisoners (1945) In view of the enormity of the crimes of the Nazi regime, compensation was on the list of Allied demands even before Germany’s defeat. After the war, the individual German states were responsible....
5.	Expellees in the Federal States of West Germany (1950 and 1961) This table documents population movement out of the East and into the Federal Republic. In 1950, expellees from various Eastern European countries accounted for one third of the population of Schleswig-Holstein....
6.	From a Communiqué by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED (June 9, 1953) In its declaration of June 9, 1953, the Politburo of the SED acknowledged that the party and the government had made policy mistakes in the past. It also held out the prospect of an improved standard....
7.	June 17, 1953 (map) June 17, 1953, and the days that followed saw protests and uprisings against SED rule in East Germany.....
8.	Line of Demarcation between Soviet and Anglo-American Troops (1945) This map shows the line of demarcation between Soviet and Anglo-American troops at two different points in time. At the end of the war in May 1945, the dividing line was to the east of the intended....
9.	Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, "Stones against Red Tanks" (June 25, 1953) In the Federal Republic, the workers’ uprising of June 17, 1953, was seen as a testimony to the....
10.	Program of the Democratic Farmers’ Party of Germany (1949) Two additional parties were founded in the Soviet occupation zone in the spring of 1948: the National Democratic Party of Germany and the Democratic Farmers’ Party of Germany [Demokratische Bauernpartei....
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