European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Mys Only Edys German unification but also has words of caution according to French newspapers Mitterrand said the Gram inns must remember that Are Hru i i or by ccr3 n i. Europe the fun p i f a to. I. To Parr Clicc to i i 1 i ,. Of to Ime a ? car runs a Cut a a. s military stance a Orr s St Al ? i. It Union a s a United Germany he Neutral. Virvle the in cd insets in should be a part of nato West Germany is no of the strongest nato partners nearly 400 000 troops East go Iran has about 200,000 opposite on pm cans in West Germany have begun Ca Brj for troop cutbacks As unification nears but a United Germany s military might is an open question West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has assured the world that German Unity will present no foreign threat. Kohl says German Unity will strengthen All of Europe and will be a positive Factor in the dec s plans for a Barrier free internal Market by 1992 Moisi. The French political scientist said european Unity will undoubtedly slow As West Germany focuses More on unification moreover he believes that East germans must learn a sense of european identity which he contends is shared More by budding East bloc democracies such As Hungary and Poland it is the duty of the West germans As they Swallow East Germany to give them a sense of european identity. If they do so we will have a stronger Europe. If they Don to we will have a Strong Germany within a weak said Moisi Estern zones. Over the years the four Powers have forsaken most of Leir occupying rights in East and West Germany but a Ember of anomalies remain and the victors continue to Jersey Berlin Berlin deep inside East Germany is divided into four 3ctors, each controlled a one of the the British. French and u s sectors make up West Berlin and the soviet sector is East Berlin which East Germany Aims As its capital. Armed forces of the four Powers retain and exercise Leir rights to patrol in the other sectors the Western Owers refuse to recognize East German at Henty in ast Berlin and off scially insist on resolving any disputes Ith soviet officers the Lour Powers military units also have rights to Algol in East and West Germany the Western Powers require East and West Ermany to run troop trains to ferry any of military Between West Germany and Berlin East Ermany must allow Access through three corridors Cross its territory to Berlin the military forces of Britain. France and the United tales remain concentrated in the runes once occupied the victors now Allied with West Germany through in North Atlantic treaty organization the Western Powers also have maintained exclusive hts to Fly commercial planes into Berlin from the West. Though West Germany has recently obtained some 2lhts for joint flights reluctance by the Western Powers to recognize the est German state created under the auspices of the soviets was one of the obstacles to German \ membership in the United nations East and West in Many did t join the United nations until 1973. One of the last joint enterprises of the four Powers As imprisoning Rudolf Hess a Deputy to Hitler whom i by took turns guarding in Spandau prison in Berlin until a died in 1987 at age 93 y 17, 1990 unification a historic struggle associated press t he Gerany that pm into East and Westa or the Ujj Ufau of advil Hitler s Reichin Way 1945 had been a unified nation Lor Only the average Span of one person s life it was a Loose confederation of principalities in the 17th Century Bill under Frederick ii 1740-86prussia began emerging As a european Power. Prussia and Havana were expanded and Many states were eliminated by the Congress of Vienna following Napoleon s defeat it was time for the Era of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck was bound on fashioning a Little Germany one tree from domination by the Austro hungarian Empire. After victories in the Austro prussian War of 1866 and the Franco prussian War of 1870-71. Wilhelm i was proclaimed the German emperor and Germany became the chief Power on the continent Europe s old order came crashing Down in world War i and Germany the loser became briefly the weak Weimar Republic in the turbulent years that followed the Allied Victory in november 1918 in the bitter aftermath of defeat Hitler Rose to Power in 1933 and began his quest Lor world domination that led to the 1939-45 cataclysm of world War ii nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces in May 1945 hitter already was dead a suicide Germany was divided into zones occupied by the four Allied Powers. The Region that is now East Germany came under the jurisdiction of the soviet Union. In april 1946, the East German communist party became the governing political Force in the country. Its leaders came from the anti Hitler communist resistance members who were imprisoned or exiled the Allied Powers formed a new German state the Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany in May 1949 that same year on oct. 7. The German democratic Republic or East Germany was officially founded As an Independent state in the soviet zone of occupation three Days later the soviet military administration Transl red All administrative Powers to the new communist government East Germany put Down a workers uprising with the help of soviet tanks in 1953, and eight years later laced with an exodus of highly skilled East German workers to the West erected the Berlin Wall. Berlin 110 Miles inside East German territory was divided into two sections and was a Western enclave in communist territory. Dissatisfaction in East Germany persisted while West Germany prospered next door and became an economic powerhouse and a bastion of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Finally in August and september 1989. The East German cauldron of discontent boiled Over. Tens of thousands of people seeking passage to West Germany poured into West German embassies in Hungary. Poland and Czechoslovakia. Thousands slipped into Austria through Hungary which dismantled its barriers in May. Weeks of unprecedented political and social upheaval followed. Huge protests marked the 40lh anniversary of communist Rule in East Germany and on oct 18 Egon Krenz replaced hard line party chief Erich Honecker soon East Berlin opened its Western Border and began dismantling the Berlin Wall talk of unifying Germany began in Earnest first on the streets during demonstrations and then among the world leaders on tuesday the United states and its european allies logged agreement with the soviet Union and East Germany in Ottawa on a two stage formula to reunite the two Germany reunification was under Way after 45 years of division. Land ceded by Germany alter world War ii Germany s Borders since 1914 the stars and stripes Page 15
