Reform in the German Democratic Republic (GDR): What Should the U.S. Do

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasko K. Eckel
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
The U.S

Belgium-Federal Republic of Germany-Italy-Netherlands-United Kingdom-United States: Agreement regarding Inspections relating to the Treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The U.S

This Agreement, signed three days after the Treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the Elimination of Their Interme¬diate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles [at I.L.M. page 84], is referred to as the Basing Country Agreement because U.S. systems subject to the Treaty are based in these five countries. The Agreement confirms that the inspections called for in the INF Treaty will be permitted by the five U.S. Allied Basing Countries and provides the legal basis for the U.S. to make its commitment to the Soviets with regard to Soviet inspections in Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The Basing Countries for Soviet Union are the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia.

The 1952 Stalin Note on German Unification: The Ongoing Debate

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ruggenthaler
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
German Translation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Missed Opportunity

On 10 March 1952 the Soviet government unexpectedly sent an identical diplomatic note to the U.S., British, and French governments proposing the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany on the basis of neutrality. This document, widely known as the Stalin Note, has been a source of controversy ever since, pitting those who see it as an insincere ploy against those who argue that it was a missed opportunity for German unification. Declassified documents from the former Soviet archives, first published in German translation in 2007 in the book Stalins großer Bluff, allow scholars to reconstruct in a detailed way the preparation of the note and to examine whether Iosif Stalin was really ready to sacrifice the GDR and to reunify Germany. This article shows that the Stalin Note was merely a ploy to facilitate the incorporation of the German Democratic Republic into the Eastern bloc and to blame the Western occupying powers for the division of Germany.

Struggles in "the Stronghold of World Imperialism"

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Jason Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
East Germany ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Do So

This article centers on the League of People’s Friendship of the German Democratic Republic. The League, composed of a main organization in East Berlin and national partner societies scattered around the globe, served as a tool of nontraditional diplomacy for East Germany’s ruling communist party across much of the Cold War. This article sketches out the activities of the League’s partner organizations in the U.S.—the first analysis to do so—arguing first that given the variety of challenges and problems the League and its partner organizations faced, the limited success of these groups in the U.S. is, in the end, rather remarkable. Second, this essay argues that these organizations offer further evidence that East Germany was not exactly a puppet state.

Issues Surrounding the Development of the Neo-Nazi Scene in East Berlin

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Brothers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

The rise of neo-Nazism in the capital of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not inspired by a desire to recreate Hitler's Reich, but by youthful rebellion against the political and social culture of the GDR's Communist regime. This is detailed in Fuehrer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naxi by Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House, New York, 1996). This movement, however, eventually worked towards returning Germany to its former 'glory' under the Third Reich under the guidance of 'professional' Nazis.

On the automodel properties of the counter-current regurlarly stacked trickle bed columns

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Gierczycki ◽  
Vladimír Staněk ◽  
Petr Vychodil ◽  
Vladimír Jiřičný ◽  
Jerzy Pikoń ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Liquid Velocity ◽  
Empirical Correlations ◽  
Hydrodynamic Behaviour ◽  
Trickle Bed ◽  
Counter Current

An approach utilizing the automodel properties in describing the hydrodynamic behaviour of counter-current columns has been extended to regularly stacked beds. Two new kinds of the packing have been investigated: The so-called K-packing, developed in the German Democratic Republic and the Cellular packing, developed in Poland. The results of experiments have been presented in the form of plots of the normalized liquid hold-up, hp, versus the normalized liquid velocity, Ql, and two empirical correlations. A comparison with previous results with randomly packed counter-current trickle bed columns has also been made.

scholarly journals Music for International Solidarity: Performances of Race and Otherness in the German Democratic Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
ELAINE KELLY
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
West Germany ◽  
International Solidarity

AbstractCentral to the official identity of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was the state's positioning of itself as the antifascist and anti-colonial other to West Germany. This claim was supported by the GDR's extensive programme of international solidarity, which was targeted at causes such as the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. A paradox existed, however, between the vision of a universal proletariat that underpinned the discourse of solidarity and the decidedly more exclusive construct of socialist identity that was fostered in the GDR itself. In this article, I explore some of the processes of othering that were embedded in solidarity narratives by focusing on two quite contrasting musical outputs that were produced in the name of solidarity: the LP Kämpfendes Vietnam, which was released on the Amiga record label in 1967, and the Deutsche Staatsoper's 1973 production of Ernst Hermann Meyer's anti-apartheid opera, Reiter der Nacht.

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