Details

Subject(s)

• Border security [Browse]
• Berlin—Politics and government [Browse]
• Berlin—Foreign relations [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FCO33: Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European Department: Registered Files (R and WR Series) ; FCO33-1521. [More in this series]
• FCO33 : Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European Department: Registered Files (R and WR Series) ; FCO33-1521

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1967-1975: Module 3
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning civil disturbances and unrest in Berlin. The file includes a discussion of the case of Ekkehard Weil, a West German neo-Nazi who shot a guard at a Soviet war memorial in West Berlin -- notes on the police investigation following the shooting -- notes on the trial of Weil and the defence prepared by his attorney -- comments on Soviet press coverage of the Weil case -- and a discussion of the political implications of the case for Soviet-West German relations. Other documents in the file include an account of an incident in which a West German citizen was arrested for trespassing in a Soviet guardhouse in Berlin -- a letter about strikes at Berlin universities -- a report that a tunnel has been discovered under the Berlin Wall in the French sector of Berlin -- and charts and graphs of attempted crossings into West Berlin by East German refugees.

Notes

• File date: 1971.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2002.
• File was closed until January 1, 2002, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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