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	Socialist Unity Party of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED) was the governing party of East Germany from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990.
		The SED was created in 1946 from a Soviet-influenced merger between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) members and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) members who lived in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and the Soviet-occupied sector of Berlin.
		Official East German and Soviet histories portray the merger between the SPD and KPD in the Soviet sector as a voluntary pooling of efforts by the socialist parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany (828 words)

	MSN Encarta - East Germany
		Germany, East, common name of a former republic of central Europe, bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea, on the east by Poland, on the south by the Czech Republic, and on the south and west by the former West Germany.
		East Germany occupied the areas which are now the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony (Sachsen), Saxony-Anhalt, and Thüringen.
		In the 1950s East Germany's relations with capitalist West Germany became strained after West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer claimed that all Germans were one nation and insisted on dealing with the Socialist Unity Party rather than with the East German government.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553194/East_Germany.html (802 words)

	Encyclopedia: Socialist Unity Party of Germany
		The Communist Party of Germany (in German, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands â€“ KPD) was formed in December of 1918 from the Spartacist League, which originated as a small factional grouping within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the International Communists of Germany (IKD).
		The Soviet Military Administration in Germany (Russian initials: SVAG (Советская военная администрация в Германии, СВАГ); German: Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland - SMAD) was the Soviet military government which directly ruled the eastern areas of Germany from 1945 until the establishment of East Germany in 1949.
		East German political parties Major General Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov was the director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany which governed eastern Germany from 1945 - 1949.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Socialist-Unity-Party-of-Germany (2095 words)

	Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German : Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED) was the governing party of East Germany (the GDR) from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990, following the GDR government's collapse.
		The SED was created in 1946 from a Soviet -influenced merger between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) members and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) members who lived in the Soviet controlled sectors.
		Erich Honecker - supervised construction of the Berlin Wall ; later premier of East Germany.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany.html (977 words)

	East Germany Opens Frontier to West for Migration or Travel; Thousands Cross
		East German radio announced that the uncontrolled crossings would be ended at 8 A.M. today, after which East Germans would be required to obtain a visa.
		The immediate reason for the decision was evidently a recognition by East Germany's embattled authorities that they could not stem the outward tide by opening the door a crack and hoping that rapid liberalization at home would end the urge to flee.
		Other East Berliners were more muted in their reaction, reflecting the skepticism forstered by the dizzying rate of change in East Germany in recent weeks.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/111089germany-frontier.html (1809 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - East Germany
		From 1968 to 1989 East Germany was governed under a constitution that defined the country as a sovereign socialist state in which all political power was exercised by the working people.
		Relations with West Germany improved after West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph agreed to ease West German travel restrictions to West Berlin in 1972 and instituted formal diplomatic relations in 1973.
		New trade, aid, and travel agreements were signed with West Germany in 1984, and in 1987 Honecker became the first East German head of state to pay an official visit to West Germany.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761553194__1/Germany_East.html (1432 words)

	Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The was created in 1946 from a Soviet -influenced merger between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) members and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) members who lived in the controlled sectors.
		Official East German and Soviet histories portray merger between the SPD and KPD in Soviet sector as a voluntary pooling of by the socialist parties.
		As of 2003 the PDS remains influential in Eastern of Germany especially at local levels.
	www.freeglossary.com /Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany (639 words)

	Stasi
		General Pavel Koshevoi, commander of Soviet forces in East Germany, was spooning caviar into his mouth from a crystal bowl and taking bites from a slab of dark bread, washing it down with vodka.
		East Germany had become a police state, and when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the entire population because the state's prisoners.
		However, the facts of East Germany's espionage operations began to surface more frequently in the West by the mid-1950s, when the number of spies arrested increased as a result of improved West German counterespionage methods.
	www.futuris.net /stasi/intro.htm (2115 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		His comments have renewed a debate in Germany that began when he told an election rally in Hannover a week ago that if his Social Democrat government is returned to power in next month's poll, it will resist involvement in any U.S. war to depose Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
		Schroeder also said in his weekend comments that Germany's military capacity is stretched to its limits -- with the stationing of military units in Afghanistan and the Balkans and the deployment of naval forces off the Arabian coast.
		Germany was quick to offer its support to the United States after the terrorist attacks of 11 September.
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2002/08/12082002153312.asp (874 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - New Germany: Prosperity and pain
		In 1989, most East Germans were in favour of reunification but later felt steamrollered by the many changes and developments unfolding after the Berlin Wall came down.
		Ironically, according to Pollack, many people in East Germany also felt they were passengers rather than drivers and "felt pushed into a corner" by the unfolding events.
		In 1991, the average worker's gross salary in eastern Germany was about 48 percent compared with that of his counterpart in the west.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/germany/stories/walls.mind (920 words)

	Germany: The Promise of Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		First, postwar Germany has joined the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations, and is integrated into the world economic order in a way that wasn't true during the first half of this century.
		Second, today's Germany is a constitutional democracy in which the military is solidly under civilian control, and a system of checks and balances characterizes the German federal government.
		Because of these characteristics, which differentiate present-day Germany from its past, Germans realize that military aggression is unproductive and would only lessen the world economic influence that their post-World War II leaders have worked so hard to acquire.
	www.libertyhaven.com /countriesandregions/germany/germanypromise.html (2250 words)

	Germany for Kids
		Germany is situated in the heart of Europe and has the largest population in the European Union: about 82 Million people live there.
		Germany shares its borders with nine neighboring countries: Denmark to the north, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the south, and the Czech Republic and Poland to the east.
		The Cold War led to the division of Germany into an eastern part, the German Democratic Republic (GDR, also called East Germany), and a western part, the Federal Republic of Germany; a border divided the two sections.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/culture/life/G_Kids/g_in_brief.htm (257 words)

	The 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At the beginning of the 1960s, East Germany portrayed itself as a socialist paradise.
		With the permission of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, East Germany decided to seal the border, building a wall between East and West Berlin.
		But East Berliners were not free -- and for the next three decades, the Wall would remain a symbol of Europe's division and the cruelty of the Cold War.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/century/episodes/07/timelines/headlines/infoboxes/berlin.html (172 words)

	Index Gr-Gy
		Germany launched a "tariff war" on Poland, and the Deutsche Bank sold large quantities of the new Polish currency in the money markets of Berlin and Vienna.
		Indonesia invaded in December 1975 and in 1976 annexed East Timor as a province.
		The PDS won 22.6% in the Berlin election (6.9% in the west, 47.6% in the east) and joined a coalition government (sworn in Jan. 17, 2002) led by the Social Democrats, in which Gysi became senator (minister) for economy, labour, and women.
	www.rulers.org /indexg4.html (13862 words)

	east germany -- east germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist satellite state of the former Soviet Union which, together with West Germany...
		Appeal of former Criminal Judge in East Germany is rejected The second chamber of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court declared as inadmissible the complaint of a former judge from...
		Maps of Germany This is a map of West and East Germany Overview Maps Political Map of Germany Physical Map of Germany Road Map of Germany East & West Germany West and East Germany Map of West Germany...
	www.ddberlin.com /eastgermany (3851 words)

	Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		TheSED was created in 1946 from a Soviet -influenced merger between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) members and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) members who lived inthe Soviet controlled sectors.
		After 1990, the party reformed itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism, and continues tohold influence in German government, especially in the east.
		Official East German and Soviet histories portray the merger between the SPD and KPD in the Soviet sector as a voluntarypooling of efforts by the socialist parties.
	www.therfcc.org /socialist-unity-party-of-germany-71083.html (625 words)

	German Far-right Makes Huge Gains In East Germany, Schroeder's SPD Punished (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meanwhile the former communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), successor to the party that ruled East Germany for 40 years, was able to improve its score in both states, profiting from its reputation as an advocate for eastern concerns.
		Brandenburg premier Matthias Platzeck of the SPD, who will likely be able to continue his grand coalition with the CDU in the state, said the election had been an uphill battle.
		The results reveal widespread frustration in the east with enduring economic malaise and a chronically high unemployment rate -- 18.5 percent -- that is twice as high as in the west.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=27694 (752 words)

	Germany
		Germany's major rivers are the Danube, the Elbe, the Oder, the Weser, and the Rhine.
		The issues of the cost of reunification and the modernization of the former East Germany were serious considerations facing the reunified nation.
		Germany's recession continued in 2003: for the previous three years Europe's biggest economy had the lowest growth rate among EU countries.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107568.html (2697 words)

	Germany to host Chinese premier for talks - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany will host Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for talks on May 3 as the latter embarks on a tour of European capitals, a German government spokesman said Monday.
		The premier will fly into Germany on May 2 on the first leg, meet with the chancellor the next evening and stay until May 5, the spokesman said.
		p> Germany is already China's principal trade partner in Europe and China is Germany's biggest trade partner in Asia with bilateral trade in 2002 valued at 27.8 billion dollars, according to Chinese statistics.
	www.eubusiness.com /afp/040421123203.ocllsqsm (329 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Including informants, the Stasi at one point would number one operative for every 66 East German citizens; so ruthless and efficient were they in their efforts to squelch dissent that even the KGB found itself occasionally appalled by the Stasi's methods.
		While West Germany was the Stasi's main area of operations, it spied on NATO and the United States as well.
		East German officials at a reception are referred to as "apartchiks" who are "stuffing themselves and guzzling vodka".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813337445?v=glance (3262 words)

	Socialist Unity Party Of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On the other, the PDS is unpopular in the west due to its past as the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany which ruled East Germany during the...
		The draft statute, which uses the experience of the handling of the assets of East Germany's former ruling Socialist Unity Party as reference, aims to...
		The party is competing in Sunday's elections in alliance with the western Germany-based Labor...
	www.wikiverse.org /socialist-unity-party-of-germany (783 words)

	Ulbricht, Walter -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		He served as deputy premier of East Germany (1949–60) and as chairman of its council of state (1960–73).
		He was forced to retire as first secretary of the SED in 1971 when the Soviet Union opened new relations with West Germany, but he retained his position as head of state until his death.
		The ruler of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, from 1949 until his retirement in 1971 was Walter Ulbricht.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=406779 (816 words)

	The New York Times > International > Europe > East Germany Swallows Billions, and Still Stagnates
		RESDEN, Germany - Standing outside her freshly painted, restored apartment house here, Gabi Kaminke gazed ruefully across a parking lot at her old home, a grim six-story concrete hulk that was built during the waning days of the Communist era and now awaits the wrecking ball.
		Once one of the largest housing complexes in East Germany, Gorbitz has become a bricks-and-mortar symbol of the malaise that grips eastern Germany nearly 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		The private sector withered, and by the mid-1990's the gap between east and west began to widen alarmingly.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/07/21/international/europe/21dres.html?ex=1248148800&en=465e6b5ab2514bdd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (802 words)

	east germany -- east germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Papers among thousands of files captured from the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, claim tons of live Second World War munitions were buried in concrete bunkers beneath the runways of...
		Speeches by East German Leaders A speech by Albert Norden on the Division of Germany from 1966.
		East Germany's Church 1/89 BAD BLANKENBURG, East Germany (EHC)- Eighty Christian leaders from 19 communist nations gathered in East Germany last September for an unprecedented conference that could...
	www.yoberlin.com /eastgermany (3976 words)

	Willi Stoph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He was replaced (1973) as prime minister by Horst Sindermann and given the ceremonial position of chairman of the Council of State.
		He was expelled from the post in 1989, in the midst of unrest that led to the collapse of the Communist dictatorship and the subsequent electoral defeat of the Communist party (Mar., 1990).
		Germany: History - History Various aspects of the early, medieval, and early modern history of Germany are covered in...
	www.infoplease.com /ce5/A0846835.html (303 words)

	INSIDER TOUR, BERLIN CITY GUIDE
		The present issue is: whether to rebuild the Hohenzollern Palace, grand in scale, rich in historical sentiment, at the expense of tearing down the East German Palast der Republic, with its white panelling and reflective glass facade, aesthetically representative of the Soviet styled modernism of it's era.
		Though today in a Germany rebuiding a constructive sense of nationhood historical maturity and responsibility are likely to prevail, as the most probable end result is a project incorporating the facade of the Hohenzollern Schloss with the present Palast der Republik - a suitable compromise it would seem.
		Following the end of the Second World War Berlin and Germany were then divided amongst the Allies: The French, British, and Americans in the Western sectors; and the Soviets in the east of Berlin and Germany.
	www.insidertour.com /templates/showcityguide.php/aid/73 (3282 words)

	Germanisation of the land between the Elbe-Saale and the Oder rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In this context the population density east of the Elbe and Saale was not substantialy lower than in the Empire.
		In the northern half of east Germany, the Polabian heartland,Slavic settlements were still numerous and were mentioned in many historical documents and chronicles until the fifteenthcentury.
		Besides the large number of records and documents indicating the strong Slavic presence east of the Elbe and Saale, there is some indirect evidence that germanization of the local population was predominantly a result of loss of ethnic and cultural identity rather than mass population movements.
	gcjm.dyndns.org /sw/inhalt11/d01.htm (10823 words)

	Stoph, Willi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		German sports administrator who, as president of the West German Olympic Committee, played a key role in returning the Olympic Games to Germany after an interval of 36 years; those Games, however, which were held in Munich in 1972, were marred by the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists (b.
		Although disorders resulting from single-gene defects that demonstrate Mendelian inheritance are perhaps better understood, it is now clear that a significant number of single-gene diseases also exhibit distinctly non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance.
		The totalitarian East German government at first ignored—and then opposed—the gradual political liberalization that was occurring in the Soviet Union.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342784?tocId=9342784 (436 words)

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