Wayback Wednesday: Unification of Germany

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Joe rambles about the end of the wall in Germany

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Oh welcome to way back Wednesday Joe’s been away at ramble uh some about uh Germany uh if you haven’t seen or heard uh we have um the October Festival has started so please try to join us for a live there uh semi-fun uh the butts uh family time and us doing random

Uh holiday-ish activities I’m not allowed to tell you our current uh ideas and Angel says that they have to be surprised um but before we do that we have to do a shout out I’m gonna put my a racy thingy all right so the first phrase situation for spaghettism is Pirates

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Comment have a good day near me tell everybody well we’re going to have a little bit of a history lesson and something that ties in with the modern day events now Germany for those of us who are old me um most of us grew up with two Germany so

It was the East Germany and the West Germany yeah after June the 5th 1945 with the Berlin declaration the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Reich World War II was confirmed when the German Reich was does your abolished as well as Germany was occupied by four countries representing the Victorious allies in

The agreement the U.S the UK France and the USSR the Declaration also formed the Allied control Council of these four countries ruling Germany and confirmed German borders before having Austria with the Potsdam agreement in the Potsdam Conference between the three main allies defeating the European axes

On the 2nd of August 1945 Germany was divided by the Allies into occupation zones each under the military government of either the United States the United Kingdom France or the Soviet Union this agreement also modified Germany’s border and the country de facto losing its territories east of the order NSA lined to Poland

And the Soviet Union most of most for Poland because of the Eastern territories the former Poland were annexed by the Russians Germany’s border decision came under pressure from the dictator Stalin of the Soviet Union during and after the war many ethnic Germans who lived in the traditionally German lands in Central and Eastern

Europe including territories east of the safe line fled and were expelled to German post-war and Austrian territory sarland an area in French occupation Zone was separated from Germany when his own Constitution took effect becoming a French protectorate on the 17th of December 1947. well among the Allies geopolitical

Tensions between the Soviet Union and the Western allies and occupied Germany as part of the tent their attention in the world led the Soviets to de facto withdrawal from the ACC on the 20th of March 1948 the four occupying countries restored the act of the ACC in 1971

And blockaded West Berlin after the introduction of a new currency in West Germany on the 20th of June of the same year from the 20th of June 1948 to the 12th of May 1949 although later the USSR could not force the three Allied countries to withdraw from West Berlin as they wanted consequently

The foundation of a new German state became impossible the Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany as the liberal democracy was established in the U.S UK and French zones in 1949 May 23rd West Germany was Leisure established in the tri-zone occupied by the three Western allies and established on the 1st of August

1948. its Forerunner was the bizone formed by the U.S and UK zones on the first January 1947 before the participation of the French one the triazone did not include West Berlin it was also occupied by three Western allies although the city was de facto part of the West German State the German Democratic

Republic or East Germany a communist state with a planned and public economy which declared itself not the successor of the German Reich a legal former German state was established in the Soviet zone on the 7th of October 1949 it the year did not include East Berlin occupied by the Soviets although the

City was de facto its capital the high ideological conflict between German politicians and sociologists and their self-governing East-West Society was preceded by the influence of higher foreign occupiers however they only really Rose to become official with the birth of the two countries of Germany in context to the international intentions period of the

Cold War the capital of West Germany was in Bonn however it was only considered provisional due to the West German Target of Berlin which had been divided by the eastern part de facto managed by East Germany East Germany originally wanted to gain West Berlin and make a unified Berlin become its capital

The Western allies in Western Germany rejected the Soviet Union’s ideally neutral unification in 1952 resulting in the two German governments continuing to exist side by side most of the border between the two germanies and later the Border in Berlin were physically fortified and tightly controlled by East Germany in 1952 and 1961 respectively

The flags of the two German countries were originally the same but in 19459 East Germany changed its flag the West German government initially did not recognize the new and de facto German Polish border nor East Germany but later recognized the Border in 1972 with the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw and East Germany

In 1973 with the 1972 basic treaty when applying a common policy to reconcile with the communist countries of the East the East German government also had encouraged the two-state status after initially denying the existence of the western German policy and the influence of the Soviet policy of peaceful coexistence this Mutual recognition

Between the two germanies paved the way for both countries to be widely recognized internationally the two germanies joined the United Nations as two separate country members in 1973 and East Germany abandoned its goal of reunification with the compatriots in the West in a constitutional amendment the following year I think you’re right in

On paper so there Mikhail Gorbachev had led the country as the General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union since 1985 with the fact that the Soviet Union experienced a period of Economic and political stagnation in the correspondingly decreased intervention from Eastern law policy in 1987 the United States President

Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech at the Brandenburg gate challenging Gorbachev to tear down this wall which prevent freedom of movement in Berlin the wall had stood as an icon for political and economic division since East and West a division that Churchill would refer to as a Iron Curtain

Garbageev announced in 1988 the Soviet Union would abandon its version of Doctrine and allow Eastern European countries to freely determine their own Internal Affairs in early in 1989 under a new era of Soviet policies with glassmast openness and perestroika economic restructuring and taken further by Gorbachev the solidarity movement

Took hold in Poland further inspired by other images of Brave Defiance a wave of Revolution swept through the Eastern Bloc that year in May 1989 when Hungary removed their border fence however this Marathon his old Hungarian border facilities did not open the borders nor were previous strict controls removed and the isolation from

The Iron Curtain was still intact over its entire length the opening of the border gate between Austria and Hungary at the Penn European picnic on the August of 19 1989 then set in motion a peaceful Chain Reaction at the end which there was no longer a gdr in the Eastern blocet disintegrated

Extensive advertising for the planned picnic was made by posters and flyers among the gdr holiday makers in Hungary the Austrian branch of the pan-european Union which was headed by Carl Von Habsburg for distributed thousands of brochures inviting them to a picnic near the border at sopron it was the largest

Escape movement from East Germany since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. after the picnic which was based on the idea by Carl’s father Otto van haftsberg to test the reaction of the USSR Miguel Gorbachev at the opening of the Border tens of thousands media informed East German set off for Hungary

The media reaction of Elder konikers in the Daily Mirror on the 19th of August 1989 showed the public in east and west that there had been a loss of power by the Eastern European communist rulers in their own sphere of power and they were no longer the designers of what happened

Habsburg distributed leaflets far into Poland on which East German holiday makers were inviting to a picnic when they came to the picnic they were given gifts food and Dutch marks and then they were persuaded to come to the West in particular it was examined by haftsburg and the Hungarian minister of State

Emery posgazi the weather Hungary would come in with the command to intervene but with the mass Exodus of the pan-european picnic the subsequent hesitant behavior of the Socialist Unity party of East Germany and the non-intervention of the Soviet Union broke the dams thus the bracket of the Eastern Bloc was broken

Now tens of thousands of media in front East Germans now made their way to Hungary which was no longer ready to keep sporters completely closed or to oblige border troops with the use of arms by the end of September 1989 more than 30 000. Eastern assistance had escaped to

The West before the gdr denied travel to Hungary leaving Czechoslovakia as the only neighboring state in which East Germans could Escape even then many people within within and without Germany still believe that real unification between the two countries would never happen in the foreseeable future the turning point in Germany

Called the wind was marked by the peaceful Revolution leading to the fall of the Berlin wall at the night of November 1989 of the ninth with East and West Germany subsequently entering into negotiations towards eliminating the division that had been opposed upon Germans for four decades no

On the 28th of November 1989 two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall West German Chancellor Helmut cool announced a 10-point program calling for the two germanies to expand their cooperation with a view towards the eventual reunification yeah initially no timetable is proposed however events

Rapidly came to a head in early 1990. first in March the party of democratic socialism the former socialist Unity party of Germany was heavily defeated in elections oops uh Grant Coalition was formed under lothar de malrisi later in the East German wing of coals Christian Democratic Union on a platform of Speedy

Reunification second East Germany’s economy and infrastructure underwent a Swift and near total collapse although East Germany was long recorded as having the most robust comedy yes it was a comedy robust economy in the Soviet block the removal of the Communist head money revealed the ramshackle foundations of their system

The East German Mark had been almost worthless outside of East Germany for some time before the events yeah one thing that also you know comes to light you know the fact that East Germany built the Berlin Wall and worked hard to try to keep its own people there people like to talk about

Walls as keeping people out in this case East Germany built their wall to keep their people in it was like a prism well when the collapse of the East German economy further magnified the problem discussions immediately began on an emergency merger of the two economies

On the 18th of May 1990 the two German states signed the treaty agreeing on monetary economic and social Union the treaty was called Shady establishing a monetary economic and social Union between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany came into force on the first of July

1990 with the West German douchemart replacing the East German Mark as the official currency of East Germany this douche Mark was a very high reputation among the East Germans and was considerable considered stable while the gdr transferred to financial policy sovereignty to West Germany the Wes started granting subsidies to the

Gdr budget and many social security systems at the same time many West German laws came into force in the gdr this created a sustainable framework for a political union by diminishing the huge gap between the two existing political social and economic systems well the volkswimmer the parliament of

East Germany passed a resolution on the 23rd of August 1990 declaring uh Ascension of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany and the extension of the field of application of the federal Republic’s basic law to the territory of East Germany was allowed by August but

Allowed by article 23 of the West German basic law effective third October 1990 today this declaration of a session was formally presented by the president of the volksamer subbing inverted poll to the president of West German buddhistag Rita so Smith by means of the letter dated 25th of August 1990 thus formally

The procedure of reunification by means of recession of East Germany to West Germany and of East Germany’s acceptance of the basic law already enforced in West Germany was initiated as the unilateral Sovereign decision of East Germany as Allowed by the professions of article 23 of the West German basic law

That as it then existed oh in the wake of the resolution of a session the German reunification treaty commonly known in Germany as unification treaty or reunification treaty that have been negotiated between the two States since the 2nd of July was signed by administrators of the two governments on

The 31st of August 1990 in this treaty officially titled the longer version is trading between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic on the establishment of German Unity was approved by large majorities in the legislative Chambers in most countries on the 20th of September 1990.

And had passed 442 to 47 in West German Parliament and then 229 to 80 in the Eastern folks armor treaty passed German buttestrat on the following day the 21st of September 1990 my birthday the amendments to the federal Republic’s basic law was foreseen in the unification treaty or necessary for its

Implementation were was adopted by federal statute on the 23rd of September of the enacted the incorporation of the treaty as part of the law of the Federal Republic of Germany this said federal statute containing the whole text of the treaty and the protocols as an Annex was published in the official journal for

The publicational laws for the federal republic on the 28th of September 1990 in the German Democratic Republic the Constitutional law giving effects of the treaty was published on the 28th of September with the adoption of the treaty as part of the Constitution East Germany legislated its own

Abolition as a state we’re done guys thanks for playing game’s over now under article 45 it entered into Force according to the international law of the 29th of September upon the exchange of notices regarding the completion of the respective internal constitutional requirements for the adoption of the Treaty of both East

Germany and West Germany with the last step and in accordance with Article 1 of the treaty and in Conformity to the east Germany’s Declaration of a session presented to the federal republic Germany was officially reunited at midnight on the 3rd of October 1990 Germany was back as one

East Germany joined the federal republic as the five Lander states of Brandenburg Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Saxony Saxony on Halt and thuringia while East Berlin the capital of East Germany merged with West Berlin a de facto part of West Germany in order to formed a unified city-state of Berlin these

States were the five original states of East Germany but were abolished in 1952 in favor of the centralized system as part of the 18th May treaty the five East German states were reconstituted on the 23rd Berlin still formed a still formally under Allied occupation and that would be terminated later as a

Result of the provisions of the two plus four treaties but the city’s administrative murder and inclusion of the Federal Republic of Germany effective on the 3rd of October had been Greenland by the four allies and were formally approved in the final meeting of the alley control Council on

The 2nd of October the previous day an emotional ceremony at the stroke of midnight on the 3rd of October the black red gold flag of West Germany now the flag renai for United United reunited Germany was raised above the Brandenburg gate marking the moment of German reunification and so just by that

The fact that once people tasted that freedom and they were willing to go to other countries to escape and get to the West you know East East Berlin had been seeing people do things to get to Freedom they saw people jumping out of Windows over the wall they saw people swimming under Rivers

Under the wall they saw people drive through the wall with bulldozers hiding cars one of the one of the funnier stories I remember is one guy had stolen a car for a rental drove it across and then they had brought it back well with this couple who were on a

Honeymoon were driving the car they got stopped and they were looking for that other guy he’s not there guys he’s over there in West Berlin but they’ve had they had guys escape with hot air balloons they had tunnels in several cases As they were working to make it better and better wall they had people that would jump over barbed wire uh they’d have guards that would be so funny the cards would be there to try to keep the people on the outside and then all of a sudden the guards would take off

Go jump over the barbed wire and run for it but as far as Germany you know with everything that happened in such a fast rate because of the pan-european picnic it kind of like pulled the cork out of the bottle and they couldn’t put the car they could

They couldn’t put back in it was it was just a then it became a matter of time and to their uh tasks they were successful there is now only one Germany and their kids grew up knowing of only one Germany so but this is the bearded historian doing a little uh work back

And you folks have a good evening we’ll see you next week