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Relations with FRG - Coggle Diagram
Relations with FRG
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1970 - 72 agreements
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Four Power Agreement - 1971 - Allowed West Berliners to visit East Berlin, secured Soviet acceptance of this provision, made another situation like the Berlin blockade impossible, significantly reduced potential threat of conflict over Berlin.
Basic Treaty - 1972 - Key accord saw FRG and GDR both acknowledge existence of each other as states and agree to settle disputes without force or threat.
Guillaume Affair - 1973 - Brandt's Senior aide, Gunther Guillaume, discovered to be GDR spy, sentenced to 13 years in prison, released 1981 in exchange for Western spies, returned to GDR as national hero and trained spies. Seen as major reason for Brandt's resignation 1974.
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Growth of communications
1969 - only 500,000 phone calls between states. by 1989 this has risen to 40 million.
SED scared of Western influence so in line with demarcation policy, amount of currency Westerners needed to exchange into DM for a visa doubled in November 1973. Numbers visiting East Berlin dropped by 1/3 in 1974 as a result. In response to FRG allowing NATO weapons in its territory, further currency exchange increases happened in 1981.
When SED allowed restricted emigration in 1984, significant number of the 40,000 people allowed to leave were people SED believed were opponents to regime. Helped political control.