Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TEAU. French Screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Man From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about the German Occupation and the French preoccupation...
Embittered by this contemptuous treatment, and under pressure from their Russian allies, who fear a revival of German power, the leaders of East Germany are in no hurry to be reunited with the West. Their economic recovery after the war, while not quite as miraculous as West Germany's, has been extraordinarily rapid. Before the war the eastern states of Germany were primarily agricultural with some light industry. Now the world's eighth most industralized country. East Germany has huge steel and petro-chemical installations, and is Russia's most important trading partner. Its citizens have the highest standard...
...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...
...this indignation is misdirected. Until the wall, was erected millions of people, carrying with them money, and technical know-how, deserted their country. And many of these people were consciously lured away by the West Germans. In an open letter to the Social Democratic Party of West Germany in February 1966, Walter Ulbricht wrote: "We have not forgotten, and shall not forget, how, supported and guided by the government of the West German Federal Republic, systematic attempts were made to disorganize the health system of the [GDR German Democratic Republic] by enticing medical specialists. This disruptive activity was systematically concentrated...
...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...