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In August 1977, Alan Van Norman, a 20-year-old college student, had been arrested by East German authorities as he was trying to help a family escape to West Germany.An East German lawyer, Wolfgang Vogel, helped secure Van Norman's release after negotiating for the U.S. release of Robert Thompson, a former U.S. Air Force clerk.
East Germany had diplomatic relations with the United States from 1974 to 1990. The GDR's ambassadors to the U.S. were also accredited to Canada as the GDR did not have a physical diplomatic presence there.
The Foreign policy of East Germany was characterized by the close ties of East Germany (German Democratic Republic, GDR) to the Eastern Bloc. During its existence, the most important partner was the Soviet Union (USSR), which acted as a protecting power and most important trade and economic partner, which is why the GDR was often called a ...
American people convicted of spying for East Germany (3 P) Pages in category "East Germany–United States relations" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The United States followed Konrad Adenauer's Hallstein Doctrine, which declared that recognition of East Germany by any country would be treated as an unfriendly act by West Germany. Relations between the two German state thawed somewhat in the 1970s, as part of Détente between East and West and the ' Ostpolitik ' policies of the Brandt ...
Germany 1947: Four occupation zones, the whole of Berlin, the Saarland and the German eastern territories under foreign administration.. After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht in May 1945, the anti-Hitler coalition between the United States and the Soviet Union broke up, and the idea of dividing the defeated country was from then on determined by the emerging East-West conflict ...
The Berlin Agreement and the Basic Treaty normalized relations between East Germany and West Germany. The Berlin Agreement (effective June 1972), signed by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, protected trade and travel relations between West Berlin and West Germany and aimed at improving communications between East Berlin ...
The most controversial agreement was the Basic Treaty of 1972 with East Germany, establishing formal relations between the two German states for the first time since partition. The situation was complicated by the Federal Republic's longstanding claim to represent the entire German nation; Chancellor Brandt sought to smooth over this point by ...