Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification

304 Pages·1994·25.179 MB·English

by  A. James McAdams

GERMANY DIVIDED
PRINCETON STUDIES IN
INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS
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Richard H. Ullman
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GERMANY DIVIDED
FROM THE WALL TO REUNIFICATION
A. James McAdams
P R I N C E T ON U N I V E R S I TY P R E SS P R I N C E T O N, N EW J E R S EY
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McAdams, A. James.
Germany divided : from the wall to reunification / A. James McAdams.
p. cm. — (Princeton studies in international history and politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-07892-0 (cl)
ISBN 0-691-00108-1 (pbk)
1. Germany—Politics and government—1945—1990. 2. Germany—Politics and
government—1990- 3. Germany (East)—Foreign relations—Germany
(West) 4. Germany (West)—Foreign relations—Germany (East) I. Title. II. Series.
DD257.M26 1992
943.087—dc20 92-15654
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To My Parents

Comrade L. I. Brezhnev: "When are you flying back? I've
heard as early as tomorrow."
Comrade E. Honecker. "Yes, tomorrow afternoon. As you
know, August 13, 1981, is the twentieth anniversary of
the erection of the anti-fascist protective wall."
Comrade A. A. Gromyko to Comrade L. I. Brezhnev: "Yes,
that is 'the Wall.' "
Comrade E. Honecker: "Yes, 'the Wall.' It has now existed
for twenty years. That was a great event then."
Comrade A. A. Gromyko, jokingly: "Perhaps one should
erect a monument to this event someday."
(A meeting in the Crimea, August 3, 1981.
Courtesy of Central Party Archives, Berlin)