Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Germany—Berlin [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• Western European Department: Registered Files (R and WR Series). ; FCO33-004984. [More in this 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). ; FCO33-004984

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1976-1982: Module 4
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing the annual review of Berlin for 1980 by the commandant of the British sector, David Mostyn. Subjects covered in the review include a good year for West Berlin's economy -- a bad year for the West Berlin Senate and the governing mayor, Dietrich Stobbe -- the effects of a deterioration in East German-West German relations -- a strike on the railways -- a good year for British relations with Berlin -- and uncertainty over the future in Berlin. The file also includes comments by the British ambassador in Bonn, Oliver Wright -- and a calendar of key events in Berlin during the year.

Notes

• File date: 1981.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2011.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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