Inner German relations, also known as the FRG–GDR relations, East Germany–West Germany relations or German–German relations, were the political, diplomatic, economic, cultural and personal contacts be
August 1961: Water cannon protects the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Chairman of the Council of Ministers Willi Stoph (left) and Chancellor Willy Brandt in Erfurt in 1970, the first meeting of the heads of government of the two German states
Monday demonstration in Leipzig on October 16, 1989
A truck is sealed at the inner German border.
German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany, was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culmina
Inner German relations
…Republic (East Germany or GDR), during the period of the West–East division in German history from the founding of East Germany on 7 October 1949 to Germany's reunification on 3 October 1990. After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht in May 1945, the anti-Hitler coalition between the United States and the Soviet…
Germans stand on top of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the days before the wall was torn down
1990 German Unity Day, with flags of all German states at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany
An East German political event on 21 April 1946: Otto Grotewohl (right) and Wilhelm Pieck (left) seal the merger of two parties, SPD and KPD, to form the SED, a communist party that would dominate the future East German state, with a symbolic handshake. Walter Ulbricht is seated in the foreground to the right of Grotewohl.Avraham Pisarek
Berlin Blockade (1948–1949)