Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germans insist that East Germany must not be recognized, in part because they want to keep alive the image of a single and indivisible Germany, and in part because they feel morally indignant about the character of the East German regime. Above all, it is the Berlin wall and the death of those who attempt to cross it that outrages the West Germans...
...West German scientist and former Social Democratic Bundestag member estimated that free access to West Berlin cost East Germany a total of 85 thousand million marks. The East German government believed that it had a legitimate and defensible right to control the emigration of its citizens if that emigration was destroying the economy...
Ever since the Berlin Wall went up, East Germany's Communist government has been pressuring the country's Evangelical Church to break its ties with Protestantism in West Germany. Last week, in a remarkable act of defiance against their Red bosses, East German Protestant leaders unanimously voted to maintain the union-and then went on to join with their West German counterparts in electing a new chairman of the All-German Church Council...
Both actions took place at the annual synods of the two churches, which met under difficult conditions. In the past, the two branches of Protestantism have gathered in different sectors of divided Berlin, and some West Germans have been allowed to visit their brethren in the east. This time, Communist officials forced the East German synod to meet at Fiirstenwalde, 20 miles from Berlin-and made it clear ahead of time that they expected the meeting to end in a formal schism (TIME, April...
...fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the question of East-West relations, Dietzfelbinger was chosen over the pre-synod favorite, Hannover's Bishop Hanns Lilje, who is more closely identified with Germany's political controversies. Dietzfelbinger succeeds Bishop Kurt Scharf of Berlin-Brandenburg, who hopes to return to East Berlin, from which he was expelled...