Die Einheit – Das Auswärtige Amt, das DDR-Außenministerium und der Zwei-plus-Vier-Prozess

Sep 12, 2015

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, this edition presents previously unpublished documents concerning the foreign policy of the two German states and the 2+4 negotiations.

The reunification of Germany in 1989/1990 changed the world: Like no other event of its time, this process marked the end of the Cold War in Europe. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin presents this edition of 170 previously unpublished documents from the West German Foreign Office and the East German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These documents give a vivid picture of the “engine room of diplomacy” and allow the dramatic events of the day to come alive again – from the “embassy refugees” in the summer of 1989 in Prague to the completion of unification in the fall of 1990.

Authors/Editors
Horst Möller 
was Director of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin from 1992 to 2011 as well as Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munich from 1996 to 2011.
Ilse Dorothee Pautsch is Head of Department of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin at the Foreign Office.
Gregor Schöllgen is Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Erlangen.
Hermann Wentker is Head of the Berlin Department of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin.
Andreas Wirsching is Director of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin as well as Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munich.
Heike Amos and Tim Geiger are research fellows at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin.

Published on behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin. Compiled and annotated by Heike Amos and Tim Geiger
2015. 850 pages, 43 b/w illustrations and 20 color illustrations, hardcover € 34,99 D / € 36,00 A
ISBN 978-3-525-30076-3
eBook: € 27,99 D / € 28,80 A ISBN 978-3-647-30076-4