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East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 |
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Verlag :: Publisher Gale Cengage |
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) came into existence on October 7, 1949, when the German Economic Commission formed a provisional government in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. This move occurred in response to the action taken by the United States, Britain and France, which in 1948 had agreed to unite their respective occupation zones into a West German republic. The division of Germany and the founding of an East German state signified several historical reversals. They included:
Historically, East Germany was the Soviet Union's most pliant and loyal ally in Eastern Europe. Lack of international recognition made East Germany dependent on the Soviet Union. Until the Four Power Agreement on Berlin and the signing of the Basic Treaty by the two Germanies in the early 1970s, the noncommunist world treated the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) as the "real Germany" and East Germany as nothing more than an artificial state lacking international legitimacy. For a time, this sentiment seems to have been shared by the Soviet leadership as well. In 1954 Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet representative at the Four Power Foreign Ministers Conference in Berlin, proposed simultaneous elections in both Germanies leading to the creation of a unified German state. If such elections had been held, the SED would have lost power. The presence of West Germany also made the SED regime more dependent on the Soviet Union. Before the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, 2.5 million East German citizens had walked across the border to live in West Germany. A common language, family ties and access to West German media left the East Germans much less isolated from West European culture than were their counterparts in Eastern Europe. All these factors tended to impede SED efforts to win popular legitimacy for the Marxist-Leninist regime in East Germany. Without legitimacy, both in the eyes of most of the world and in the eyes of its own people, the SED could turn only to the Soviet Union and its allies for support. To ensure Soviet loyalty to the cause of the SED regime, East Germany had to act as Moscow's model ally. This publication reproduces the State Department Decimal Files 762B, 862B and 962B from the General Records of the Department of State in the custody of the National Archives. These decimal classifications, defined below, present a comprehensive view of the internal affairs of the East German state. This view includes a wide-range of materials, including:
The collection includes pages arranged topically and chronologically on crucial subjects, such as:
State Department Decimal Filing System From 1910 to 1963 the State Department used a decimal filing system to organize its Central Files -- its correspondence and reporting repository -- in which documents were assembled and arranged according to their subject, with each subject having a specific decimal code. In 1950, the State Department modified the decimal system without changing the basic structure. The complexity of the postwar world and the increasing involvement of the United States in international affairs had combined to make the original 1910 filing system, last updated in 1939, inadequate to meet the Department's growing needs. The decimal system from 1950 to January 1963 consisted of ten primary classifications numbered 0 through 9, each covering a broad subject area:
Records Relating to the Internal Affairs of East Germany consists of documents contained in Classes 7, 8 and 9. Within these classes each subject is defined by a decimal file number, followed by the country number. |
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