Ostpolitik
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- Ostpolitik
- What is it?
- Brandt negotiated a complex set of treaties which marked a major turning point in the cold war
- Involved recognition of the GDR regime.
- Treaties
- Moscow treaty (August 1970)
- Was signed by the USSR and FRG
- Declared they both had no territorial claims against each other
- FRG committed to negotiating treaties with Poland, GDR and Czechoslovakia
- East and West Germany can both join the UN
- The Warsaw and Prague treaties
- Between Poland, USSR and FRG
- Poland and the USSR recognized they had no territorial demands over each other
- Trade and financial assistance from the FRG was to be increased.
- Four power negotiations over Berlin
- The Western allies wanted a settlement underwritten by the USSR to confirm West Berlin's link with the FRG and guarantee its freedom of access to the West.
- Soviets conceded to three main principles
- Unimpeded traffic between West Berlin and FRG
- Recognition of West Berlin ties with the FRG
- The right for West Berliners to visit East Berlin
- The basic treaty
- Brezhnev stressed to Honeker (leader of FRG) the solid advantages of the treaty for the GDR.
- West are able to visit East and postal communications are allowed
- FRG recognised the GDR as an equal and soverign state
- Both sides accepted the GDR should be represented in the UN
- Moscow treaty (August 1970)
- Chancellor of the FRG
- Willy Brandt
- What is it?
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