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During the Cold War, Soviet and East German military units, equipment and activities around Berlin were high priority targets for Western military intelligence agencies. This article examines the imagery gathering undertaken by British, French and US reconnaissance flights along the Berlin Air Corridors and inside the Berlin Control Zone. The quantity of information was effectively multiplied because of the close cooperation between the Western allies and coordination with Allied Military Liaison Mission ‘ground tours’. This cooperation generally went further than has been publicly acknowledged by individual governments. This paper contends that the collaboration provided the most comprehensive and regular collection of imagery on Soviet and East German military units for the duration of the Cold War. It contributed to a multi-dimensional picture of Soviet and German Democratic Republic capabilities and intentions. Soviet motives for generally not interfering with those missions on a regular basis are considered.
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095528
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This article reexamines Anglo-American relations in light of the Berlin crisis during the Kennedy years. The Berlin crisis has been extensively studied, especially after the 1990s when newly declassified materials shed new light on the incident. Using archival sources of the former Soviet bloc countries, recent works have closely explored Khrushchev's motivation for provoking such a conflict in Central Europe, while revealing the dynamics of alliance politics between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).1 On the Western side, while focusing mainly on American and West German decision making, many studies point out that the major Western powers-the United States, Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)-disagreed on how to handle the Berlin crisis.
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098088
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During the Cold War, state-led education exchange programmes between post-colonial states and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were common. The biggest such project, the School of Friendship (SdF), sent 899 Mozambican children for socialist-inspired schooling in the GDR. By the time they returned to Mozambique in 1988, the transition from socialist-revolutionary state to capitalist society was under way. This article discusses the legacies of socialist education, focusing on the lives of some of those who spent the decisive years of adolescence in the GDR. The narratives give insights into the contradictory social reality of this historical period, showing how the SdF equipped the participants with 'modern' virtues that became vital for their future lives, but which had also become largely obsolete by the time they returned to Mozambique. The SdF could thus be judged as a highly politicized programme where children were treated as pawns in a wider political game, while at the same time new horizons opened for its participants.
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095760
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2010.
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Germany and Korea share the experience of being a divided country. However, the German experience is history but the Korean experience is still reality. This paper analyzes similarities and differences of the development of the relationship between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) since the postwar period. The relational development of both states was determined by the ideological conflict between the superpower China and the USSR, therefore the relationship to one another changed over the years. In addition, this paper reports on massive, mostly unilateral East German donations to the DPRK, monetary and non-monetary, since the 1950s, making East Germany a major financier of reconstruction of North Korea after the Korean War.
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170955
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