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). ; FCO33-004465. [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). ; FCO33-004465

Data source

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

Summary note

A file containing documents relating to meetings between American, British, French, and West German politicians and officials to discuss Berlin. The principal subject covered in the file is a meeting held Brussels in December 1980, in conjunction with a NATO summit. Subjects discussed at this meeting included a deterioration in East-West relations, causing the situation around Berlin to become more delicate -- new rules imposed by the East German authorities, which affected inner-German travel and dealt a severe blow to relations between East Germany and West Germany -- a strike by railway workers in West Berlin that affected the S-Bahn suburban railway -- Western policy on flights to and from Schönefeld, the airport serving East Berlin -- and the continued imprisonment of the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess.

Notes

• File date: 1980.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2010.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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