Word: german-german
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...facto national existence until 1972. Today, while still separated by an 863-mile border bristling with armed patrols and barbed wire, the two states have settled into a wary but increasingly pragmatic relationship, held together by more than 70 bilateral agreements governing everything from postal communications to electricity sharing. "German-German relations used to be much worse than East-West relations in general," says Wolfgang Berner, deputy director of Cologne's Federal Institute for East European and International Studies. "This has changed." While no small part of that change is due to West German bridge building, Honecker...
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