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Germany and East-West Coexistence 1955–1962

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Indivisible Germany

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Abstract

Approaching the contemporary period, the aims of the Great Powers as they are reflected in Germany appear in sharp perspective. The United States continued to hold fast in Germany in an effort to contain Soviet expansion. To the Soviets the partition of Germany represented a single stage in the struggle to extend their control in Central Europe. Here, as in other areas of the world, “coexistence” meant the adoption of an aggressive role by the Soviet Union as opposed to an often passive one of the West.

We must demand the right of self-determination for all Germans and the reunification of Germany.1

Chancellor Adenauer, December 25, 1961

Manipulating the slogan of self-determination of the German nation in the conditions in which two independent German states exist is a rather cheap trick.2

Soviet note on Berlin, August 3, 1961

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Wolfe, J.H. (1963). Germany and East-West Coexistence 1955–1962. In: Indivisible Germany. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9199-9_5

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