Cold War history of Germany

Palestinian terror attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany

German amateur aviator and activist

thumb|250px|Willy Brandt (left) and [[Willi Stoph in Erfurt 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart, an early step in the de-escalation of the Cold War]] Neue Ostpolitik (German for "new eastern policy"), or Ostpolitik () for short, was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) beginning in 1969. Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed "change through rapprochement" in a 1963 speech at the Evangelische Akademie Tutz

one-Germany policy during the Cold War

German general, Nazi, spy (1902-1979)

border which separated the territories of the FRG and the GDR

disused train stations

national archives of Germany located in Koblenz

1989–1990 process disestablishing the GDR

aspect of history, when Germany was divided into two separate states

HIAG () was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Its main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS.

Fernsehen der DDR news program

intelligence agency established in June 1946 by the US in the US zone of post-war occupied Germany

radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin during the Cold War

thumb|275px|Three Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic|Border Troops guards in a [[watch tower on the Inner German border in 1984]]

government organization for political education in Germany

terror attack in Munich, Germany

1979 event

Espionage case

unofficial Cold War-era abbreviation for the Federal Republic of Germany

1950 document on West German rearmament

1972 treaty between West Germany and East Germany

United States program to help build up the military of West Germany after World War II

clandestine deal between East and West Germany

thumb|right|A that was rejected by the Deutsche Post of the GDR. The 1 DM West German stamps depict the Melanchthonhaus, which was located in East Germany. '''''' (German for "Western package", plural: ) is the common term for care packages sent by West Germans to their friends and families in East Germany during the division of Germany from 1961 to 1989.

eighteen German nuclear researchers who authored the 1957 Göttingen Manifesto

pest control campaign and propaganda operation in the Warsaw Pact, ca. 1950-1960

voluntary association

Kidnapping and murder of German manager and industry association president Hanns-Martin Schleyer by terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1977

massive underground complex built during the cold war, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Officer in SS Sicherheitsdienst; CIA operative

refugee transit camp

affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.

thumb|Hundreds of East Germans queue outside a post office in Skalitzer Straße, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, to collect their "Welcome money", 11 November 1989. ' (English: "Welcome money'") was, from 1970 until 29 December 1989, a gift from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) to visitors from the German Democratic Republic (GDR - East Germany). This situation originated with the policy of the GDR government restricting the amount of East German Marks (M) that could be exchanged into Deutsche Marks (DM) by GDR citizens when on approved travel to the West. At first, the