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Securing peace and overcoming walls - Coggle Diagram
Securing peace and overcoming walls
Gains in international prestige and trust
recognition of
Oder-Neisse
- FRG accepts loss of former Eastern territories bc of WW2
Brandt admits
guilt & responsibility
of Germans for Nazi regime
through
New Ostpolitik
- FRG wins prestige as partner to devoted peace.
Adherence to the goal of German unity
Brandt won Nobel piece prize in 1971 for reducing tensions within blocs
SPD-FDP coalition respects political status quo but gave up on re-establishing a united Germany
Brandt - wants full recognition of GDR by FRG in terms of international law
relations between Bonn & EB →facilitates travel, visits and postal traffic → improvements for East Germans
International détente and its limits
talks on
MBFR
&
CSCE in 1973
Ostpolitik moves to multilateral phrase
CSCE final act in Helsinki 1975
- 35 European & NA countries pledged:
recognise inviolability of borders in Europe
Don't interfere in international affairs of other countries
respect human rights
1975
detente slid to crisis mode
“Second Cold War” and “second phase of Ostpolitik”
invasion of Afghanistan 1979 , Poland Crisis 1980-1 , arms race 1980s
- East-West conflict grew
2nd CW
- focus for Brandt was prevention of nuclear war
1983
SPD seek dialogue w/ Com rulers in East → revitalise Detente , promote disarmament, eastern peace settlement
FRG social-democrats, negotiate w/ SED on nuclear / chemical free zones in central Europe
1980s SPD establish contacts w/ com parties in Poland, Hungary, Czech & SU
Little contact to the opposition in Eastern Europe
Brandt - reserved right toward
eastern european civil rights
had sympathy for opposition but did not want to interfere w/ internal affairs bc of
Helsinki Accords 1975
or jeopardise good relations w/ govern. leaders there - so avoids public advocacy