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...central pieces are the 1970 treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and ruled out the use of force in any future disputes between West Germany, Poland and Russia. Brandt made their ratification by the Bundestag contingent upon the conclusion of a satisfactory agreement improving the status of West Berlin...
...response was instantaneous. Within four days after the new regulations went into effect along the Oder-Neisse frontier, 15,000 Poles trooped into East Germany, snapping up cameras, household appliances and electric shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...
Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...
...their own hands, if there is to be any hope for a just solution between the two Germanys and to the cold war. I am glad that Willy Brandt has the courage to seek new ways of establishing peaceful coexistence with East Germany and the countries east of the Oder-Neisse line. This man and his countrymen deserve our support...
...most of the World section's stories on Germany for the past five years, and last March completed his third visit, during which he met Brandt and other leaders. In a story at that time, he predicted that a treaty with Warsaw would be signed, giving over the Oder-Neisse lands, and that Brandt would move toward easing tensions between the two Germanys. "It seemed obvious that Germany was changing," says Tinnin, "and it was very important that the changes should be fully understood...