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251.	Report by the Office of the Presidium of the GDR Government on University and College Admissions for the 1957/58 Academic Year (December 21, 1957) In the 1950s, the GDR government, not least for economic reasons, sought to expand the university system, especially in the fields of science and technology. Nonetheless, the number of applicants....
252.	Federal Minister Franz-Josef Wuermeling on the Task of Family Policy (1958) The family policy measures implemented by two totalitarian regimes – the National Socialists in the 1930s and 1940s, and the East German Communist government in the 1950s – helped discredit state-controlled....
253.	Political Guidelines for Party Organizations on Preparing and Implementing the Jugendweihe (1957) After the Jugendweihe was introduced as a secular alternative to confirmation in the....
254.	Rolf Helm, Department Chief in the East German Ministry of Justice: Reparations in West Germany (1958) Whereas the first nationwide compensation regulations stipulated that claimants had to be residents of the Federal Republic, the Federal Compensation Law [Bundesentschädigungsgesetz or BEG]....
255.	Directive on Programming for Light Music and Dance Music (January 2, 1958) In January 1958, the GDR government issued a directive on light music and dance music programming for the radio and live performances. The guidelines stipulated that at least 60% of the pieces performed....
256.	East German Minister of Justice, Hilde Benjamin: "Who Has the Say in the Family?" (February 1, 1958) The equality of men and women was stipulated in the constitution of the GDR, and the SED celebrated its realization as a great socio-political accomplishment. However, in this 1958 lecture, the East....
257.	Neues Deutschland: "Bill Haley and NATO" (October 31, 1958) In late October 1958, rowdy fans at concerts in Berlin and Hamburg created problems during American rock ’n’ roll singer Bill....
258.	Speech by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev at a Soviet-Polish Meeting in Moscow (November 10, 1958) In November 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev accused the Western powers of violating the demilitarization clause of the Potsdam....
259.	U.S. State Department Memorandum (December 20, 1958) In response to Khrushchev’s speech of November 10, 1958, and the Soviet Union’s Berlin....
260.	John Foster Dulles on the Possibility of Negotiations with the GDR (November 26, 1958) In light of the most recent Berlin crisis, which had been brought about by the Soviet ultimatum demanding that the Western powers withdraw from Berlin, American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles....
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