Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Relations between the GDR and
FRG (under Honecker 1971-89)
- Improvement
in relations
- 1971 Basic Treaty -
normalised relations
- 1973 - GDR citizens can
receive FRG TV and radio
- Improvement in postal services
and telephone cconnections
between FRG and GDR
- New motorway between
Hamburg and Berlin - FRG
improved links to West Berlin
- Travel arrangements
relaxed in mid 80s
- 1989 - those in the
GDR could appeal
for a passport
- 1984 - 40,000 east
Germans allowed to
emigrate to the FRG
- both joined the UN
- Worsening
in relations
- GDR portrayed the FRG as
americanised, and itself as the
true 'anti-fascist' Germany
- East German exports
labelled as 'made in the
GDR' - seperate identities
- The FRG referred to
themselves as 'Germans' and
the GDR as 'The Soviet Zone'
- The GDR disagreed with
the 1975 Helsinki
Accords - no free travel
- Pensioners were encouraged
to leave the GDR - to
strengthen economy
- The GDR doubled the amount
of currency that Westerners
needed to exchange into East
German currency
- FRG announced
NATO's deployment of
nuclear weapons in 1983
- Minimum charge was
doubled for visits