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However, escapees were never more than a small minority of the total number of emigrants from East Germany. Far more people left the country after being granted official permits, by fleeing through third countries or by being ransomed to the West German government. During the 1980s, only about 1% of those who left East Germany did so by ...
This migration was to such an extent that by the time the German Democratic Republic was founded, between a third and a quarter of the population of East Germany was Heimatvertriebene, i.e. ethnic German migrants who fled or were expelled as part of a wider trend of population transfer among the countries and regions of Eastern Europe following ...
This is a list of wars and war-like conflicts involving the modern Kingdom of Denmark and predecessor states. Danish victory Danish defeat Another result * *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Denmark, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
In August 1961, East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall, effectively closing the loophole. [ 130 ] With virtually non-existent conventional emigration, more than 75% of those emigrating from Eastern Bloc countries between 1950 and 1990 did so under bilateral ...
East Germany [i] was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". [ 5 ]
East Berlin: Germany, East: Germany: 1949 1990 East Berlin and West Berlin merged to form reunified Berlin, country ceased to exist after reunification of Germany Hanover: Hanover, Kingdom of: Germany: 1814 1866 Hanover annexed by Prussia, became capital of the Prussian Province of Hanover, currently the capital of the German state of Lower ...
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (German: Berlin-Krise) was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War concerning the status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").