REST OF THE FORMER GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (GDR)
The German Democratic Republic East Germany was created in 1949 in the area of Germany occupied East Berlin of the Soviet Union became the capital of the new country such as West Berlin remained a part of the Federal Republic West Germany Germany to the capital was the cause of a great conflict.
The main political figure in the German Democratic Republic Walter Ulbricht who served as secretary general of the Socialist Unity Party 1946-1971 and 1960-1971 Chairman of the State.
On June 7, 1953, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of East Germany in protests that began as a protest against the increased work quotas and sank into the requirements for tanks free elections of red army were brought and the Soviet military commander declared a state of emergency more than 50 people were killed of these, around 20 have been executed, while more than 1,000 have been convicted in the German courts to have the East to take part in a coup attempt fascist state.
In the fifteen years since the Second World War more than 3 million people have emigrated from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in August 1961, the Berlin Wall was built to stem the flow of refugees.
In 1966, Willy Brandt became foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany he developed the Ostpolitik policy of reconciliation between Eastern and Western Europe In 1969, Brandt became Chancellor of Germany the West, it continued its policy of Ostpolitik in 1970 and negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union to accept the borders of Berlin, he also signed the basic treaty with the German Democratic Republic.
In 1972, the German Democratic Republic was admitted to the United Nations with the collapse of communism in 1989, the two German republics were united.
1 Waltraut Krugler, quoted by Hubertus Knabe in his book of the 17th June 1953, a German 2003 uprising.
The street was full of people, saying come with us, do with us, she remembered to 02 hours in the afternoon, the street was packed with people Police said all go home, and we'll respond to your requests, but people shouted at police and threw stones Then the tanks came and people were killed.
2 A joke is German about Walter Ulbricht and Willy Brandt said in the 1970s.
Yes, I collect jokes people tell me, and you said Brandt.
Oh, I collect people who tell jokes about me, Ulbricht said.
3 A joke is German about Walter Ulbricht said in 1970.
The thieves broke into the ministry tonight.
Alas, yes All results of the upcoming elections.
4 A joke circulating in East Germany in the 1970s.
A West German Communist traveling on a train in the GDR, he got into conversation with an old lady.
Back in West Germany, he said, shirts cost forty points each.
Shirts said the old lady had ruefully, we who are here once.
Butter is very expensive in the West, we have to eat margarine, he continued.
Yes, said the old lady, we had margarine here once, too.
Now look here called West Germany, now completely exasperated, you do not have to tell me these fairy tales, you know I am not a Communist.
A Communist sighed the old lady Yes, we have had here once those, too.
5 Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian 17th June 2003.
A German historian has accused the British of betraying an anti-Communist uprising in the early years of the German Democratic Republic, which was eventually put down by Soviet tanks in a book published to coincide with the 50th anniversary today of the insurgency, Hubertus Knabe says that Western powers, including Britain led by Winston Churchill, refused to intervene because they feared a united Germany.
Churchill reprimanded a British commander protested against the execution of a student in West Berlin took in eastern and praised the Russians for their restraint.
M. Knabe, author of 17 June 1953, a German Uprising said the protesters were bitterly disappointed after the rhetoric from the West about the liberation of Europe, and the encouragement of resistance, when they came out in the streets, they received no support.
The anniversary was dragged for weeks by political debates, television documentaries and theater productions in his book, historian cites Churchill expressing surprise that the British commander should have issued a complaint to the Russians without consulting London.
The Prime Minister then asked if the Soviet Union should have allowed the eastern area to sink into anarchy and rebellion, according to a private message quoted by Mr. Knabe and continued I felt the stirring was treated with remarkable restraint.
The West fears the reunification Foreign Minister, Selwyn Lloyd, Churchill said in a note on June 22 that the allies felt a divided Germany is safer at present but none of us dare say in public because of the impact on public opinion in Germany the first east Germans to go to the streets in 1953 were construction workers on Stalin Allee, the highway from the Communist era that splits the east of Berlin.
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