English summary: The Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin presents an edition of 170 previously unpublished documents from the Federal Foreign Office and the GDR Foreign Ministry, most of them from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. These documents give a vivid picture of the dramatic events: from the refugee crisis in the West German embassies in the summer of 1989 to unification in autumn 1990. German description: Deutschlands Einheit 1989/90 veranderte die Welt: Wie kein anderes Ereignis ...
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English summary: The Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin presents an edition of 170 previously unpublished documents from the Federal Foreign Office and the GDR Foreign Ministry, most of them from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office. These documents give a vivid picture of the dramatic events: from the refugee crisis in the West German embassies in the summer of 1989 to unification in autumn 1990. German description: Deutschlands Einheit 1989/90 veranderte die Welt: Wie kein anderes Ereignis markiert sie das Ende des Kalten Krieges. Zum 25. Jahrestag der Wiedervereinigung legt das Institut fur Zeitgeschichte Munchen-Berlin eine leserfreundliche Edition auf hochstem wissenschaftlichen Niveau vor: 170 bisher unveroffentlichte, vorzeitig freigegebene Dokumente des Auswartigen Amts und des DDR-Ministeriums fur Auswartige Angelegenheiten, vorwiegend aus dem Politischen Archiv des Auswartigen Amts, lassen die dramatischen Umbruche lebendig werden: von den Botschaftsfluchtlingen ab Sommer 1989 bis zur staatlichen Einheit im Herbst 1990.
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