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1.   Article on the Debate over German Rearmament (September 14, 1950)
The Allied agreements of the war years and the Potsdam Agreement of August 1945 had declared....
2.   Article by a Student on German Rearmament (November 16, 1950)
The Allied agreements of the war years and the Potsdam Agreement of August 1945 had declared....
3.   Western Declaration on Germany, the European Defense Community, and Berlin (May 27, 1952)
The signing of the European Defense Community (EDC) Treaty on May 27, 1952, gave the three Western Powers – France, Great Britain, and the U.S. – the opportunity to affirm their comprehensive security....
4.   Letter from Eisenhower to Adenauer on the Outcome of the Washington Conference (July 25, 1953)
Five weeks after the June 17th workers’ uprising in East Germany, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower....
5.   Soviet-German Communiqué (August 23, 1953)
After the Soviet Union had failed in its attempts to move the Western powers toward negotiations on a peace treaty and on a neutralized, unified Germany, and after the June....
6.   Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Western Powers on the Berlin Conference (February 20, 1954)
At Winston Churchill’s suggestion, the foreign ministers of the four victorious powers of World War II sat down together in Berlin in January and February 1954 to discuss the German question for....
7.   Protocol on the Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany to the North Atlantic Treaty (Paris, October 23, 1954)
At the end of August 1954, the French National Assembly failed to ratify the European Defense Community Treaty. But this only represented a brief setback for the project of integrating a West German....
8.   Protocol Modifying and Completing the Brussels Treaty (Paris, October 23, 1954)
In connection with its acceptance into NATO, the Federal Republic of Germany voluntarily renounced the development, production, and use of atomic weapons. This was not difficult, since a debate on....
9.   The Warsaw Pact (May 14, 1955)
The Soviet attempt to prevent West German rearmament failed when the FRG acceded to the Western European Union (WEU) and NATO. The Kremlin reacted quickly, bringing the Soviet bloc together in the....
10.   The Establishment of the National People’s Army (January 18, 1956)
The GDR’s admission to the Warsaw Pact was the backdrop to the establishment of the National People’s....
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