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161.	The Right of Codetermination and the Right to Strike: Letter from Konrad Adenauer to Hans Böckler, Chairman of the Confederation of German Trade Unions, and Böckler’s Response (1950) In a dramatic confrontation over the survival of codetermination in the coal, iron, and steel industry, the Confederation of German Trade Unions [Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or DGB] threatened....
162.	Political Persecution of the Former Concentration Camp Inmate and Communist Ernst Busse (1950s) In the 1950s, even former concentration camp inmates were not safe from politically motivated persecution. The case of KPD functionary and Reichstag deputy Ernst Busse, who had been incarcerated....
163.	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....
164.	From a Lecture by Oberstudiendirektor Kurt Hahn at a Sex Education Workshop for Young People at Jugendburg Bilstein/Sauerland (September 14, 1950) The erosion of familial and social structures during the war and the postwar period, as well as the direct contact with occupying soldiers, refugees, and so on, meant that many young Germans were....
165.	Proclamation of the Principles of Urban Planning by the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic (September 15, 1950) In the planned Socialist economy of the GDR, urban planning was entirely in the hands of the state. The GDR had suffered less wartime destruction than the Federal Republic, and it also met with a....
166.	Speech by GDR Minister President Otto Grotewohl: "For the Happiness of Our Mothers and Children" (September 27, 1950) In 1950, GDR Minister President Otto Grotewohl laid out the basic principles of gender and family policy in East Germany. The GDR constitution, as he explained, enshrined the full legal equality....
167.	Circular from the Ministry for Labor and Health Care on the Termination of Pregnancy (October 2, 1950) The beginning of the 1950s spelled the end of the liberalization of abortion that was briefly discussed in the Soviet occupation zone. Issued within the framework of the “Law on the Protection of....
168.	The Federal Executive Board of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany: Working Directive on the Law for the Protection of Mothers and the Rights of Women (November 6, 1950) The equality of men and women was enshrined in the GDR constitution, and the SED made every effort to further increase the number of women in the workforce. In 1950, the Democratic Women’s League....
169.	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....
170.	The Present Status of Denazification (December 31, 1950) At the end of 1950, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy wrote a positive review of the denazification process in the American zone. He pointed out that the initial goal had been to....
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