Word: oder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toward that end, Brandt said that West Germans must recognize that "facts have come into being during the past 25 years that we simply cannot reverse." Thus Brandt emphasized that he would be willing to sacrifice German claims to the lands east of the Oder-Neisse Line, which has demarcated the Polish-German border since the war's end, in return for better relations with Poland. Brandt's words were also intended for the East German Communist regime. Next week East German Premier Willi Stoph is scheduled to meet with Brandt in the West German city of Kassel...
...years, the West German weather map has said a lot about the country's political climate. Though German lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers were put under Polish control at the close of World War II, West Germany's two television networks never renounced the German claim to the former provinces of Silesia, most of Pomerania and East Prussia. Each night 26 million West German television viewers saw a map that boldly portrayed German borders as they were in 1937, including the huge slices of land that now belong to Poland...
...progress in West German negotiations in Warsaw and Moscow. In the second round of negotiations between the Poles and West Germans, the two sides reportedly exchanged drafts of parts of a proposed treaty that 1) would end Bonn's claim to former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, and 2) might offer emigration opportunities to people of German descent living in the area...
...Given a reasonable response from Poland, Brandt is prepared to recognize within the next year the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern frontier, thus ceding to Poland the huge former German territories that passed under Polish control...
...would rest more easily if the Russians disclaimed those rights. In Warsaw, Brandt hopes to lay the foundation for the future establishment of full diplomatic recognition and stronger cultural and economic ties. But as Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski told Tinnin, Poland insists on a binding settlement of the Oder-Neisse question before the other issues can be worked out. In East Germany, Brandt seeks the establishment of more humane and sensible relations between the two halves of Germany...