Authors: Frederick Taylor
Felix Dzerzhynski Regiment
Ferdinand, Grand Duke
First World War
Flächensperren
Flanders
Fonteyn, Dame Margot
Ford, Gerald
Ford Motor Company
Foreman, Milos
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Frahm, Ludwig
Frahm, Martha
France; revolution; defeat; and triple alliance; and First World War; invades Ruhr; and division of Germany; Communists in; and free trade area; and Stalin’s reunification offer; commitment to West Berlin; and nuclear threat; in four-power talks; appeasement; war in Algeria; and German reunification; in Second World War
Franke, Herr
Frankfurt
Frankfurt on the Oder
Frankfurter Rundschau
Frederick II of Brandenburg
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia
Frederick III, Emperor
Frederick III, King of Prussia
Frederick VI of Brandenburg
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Frederick William I, King of Prussia
Frederick William IV, King of Prussia
Free Democratic Party
Free University of Berlin; and border escapes; Kennedy’s speech
Freienwalder Strasse
French Communist Party
French Revolution
Friedenau
Friedensburg, Dr
Friedrichsfelde
Friedrichshain Public Park
Friedrichstadt-Palast theatre
Friedrichstrasse; tanks appear on; barrier prepared for; Station; visitor processing centre;
see also
Checkpoint Charlie
Friesland
Fuchs, Wolfgang
Fulbright, J. William
Furrer, Richard
Gagarin, Yuri
Galadshev, General
Galbraith, J.K.
Ganéval, General Jean
Gartenstrasse
Gatow Airport
Gaudian, Christian
Gelb, Norman
Geneva
Gensler Strasse
George, Heinrich
Georgetown
Georgia
German Administration of the Interior (DVdI)
German Confederation
German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany): elections; established; flag; population; borders; collectivisation of agriculture; campaign against churches; population loss; industry; economy; workers’ uprising; securiry; strategic importance; Soviet missiles stationed in; flow of refugees; Soviet support for; Soviet forces reinforced; army; economic links with West Germany; Western intelpligence gathering; increasing repression; Allies and possibility of unrest; Lutheran Church in; consequences of border
closure; education system; political prisoners; deportations; and magnet theory; international recognition; press; repression eases; conscription introduced; and convergence; economic improvements; youth in; pollution; communal pride; sports; Western perceptions of; and homosexuality; denazification; judiciary; punks in; visiting rights; signs Basic Treaty; technology imports; economic crisis and KoKo system; military budget; credit agreement; signs Helsinki Accord; subcultures; black economy; exit-visa movement; outward transfer of technology; national anthem; abolishes death penalty; rigged local elections; plans for concentration camps; fortieth anniversary Soviet publications; banned; economic collapse; Gorbachev visits; borders opened; leadership Stands down; free elections; post-reunification emigration; reconstruction; age profile
German Football Association
German People’s Party
German State Opera House
Germany admiration for Frederick the Great; and War of Liberation; revolution unification; ‘Prussianisation’; army; industrialisation; welfare system; navy; and First World War; economic collapse; Communists return; post-war dismantling; divided between Allies; borders redrawn; post-war hunger and unemployment; currency reform and economic recovery; free trade area; country divided; strategic importance; US forces in; national anthem; birthplace of Marxism; industrial production; reunification; currency; border controls abolished; all-German elections; faces economic competition;
see also
Federal Republic of Germany; German Democratic Republic
Germany, Soviet Zone; political revival and creation of SED;; elections; arrests; special camps; nationalisation and land reform; and Marshall Plan; food supplies; Soviet troops in; border closed; SED tightens grip
Germany Treaty
Gerstenmaier, Eugen
Gestapo
Giessen
Gildner, Jay
Girrmann, Detlef
Girrmann Group
Gisecke & Devrient company
glasnost
Gleisdreieck
Glienicke; bridge
Goebbels, Josef
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gomulka, Wladyslaw
Good Bye, l111in
!
Gorbachev, Mikhail; comes to power; and; Honecker; visit West Germany; visit GDR; and collapse of GDR
Göring, Hermann
Göring, Privace Peter
Graetzstrasse
Graf, Jürgen
Grass, Günter
Great Depression
Grechko, Marshal Andrei
Greece
Green Party
Griebnitzsee
Gromyko, Andrei
Gross-Ziethen
Grotewohl, Otto; GDR prime minister
GRU
Grunewald
Gueffroy, Chris Guillaume, Günter Gulag system; East German
Gundel, Cadet
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden
Gyptner, Richard
Habsburgs
Hadrian’s Wall
Hagen
Halberstadt
Hall, General William
Halle; Americans occupy; workers express dissent; industries; demonstrations; unemployment
Hallstein Doctrine
Halversen, Lieutenant Gail S.
Hamburg
Hanover
Hans-Rosenthal-Platz
Hardie, Keir
Harnisch, Colonel Gerhard
Harris, Sir Arthur
Harris, Seymour
Harvard University
Harvey, Bill
Harzer Strasse
Haus des Lehrers,
Haus Zu den Birken
Havel, river
Heidekampgraben
Heidelberger Strasse
Heikle, Richard
Heinemann, Ursula
Heinrich-Heine-Strasse I 6;; checkpoint
Heimstedt
Helsinki Accord
Hemsing, A1
Herald Tribune
Hermes, Dr Andreas
Herrmann, Joachim
Herrnstadt, Rudolf
Herschel, Hasso
Herter, Christian Archibald
Heym, Stefan
Higgins, Marguerite
Hildebrandt, Rainer
Hillebrand, Martin
Hilton, Conrad
Hilton Hotel
Himalayas
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul van
Hider, Adolf; rise to power; pact with Stalin; birth; resistance to; US support for; occupation of Rhineland; exercise of covert control; legacy of; and Baltic States
Höckersperren
Hof
Hoff, Roland
Hoffmann, General Heinz
Hohenschönhausen
Hohenzollern family
Holland
Holy Roman Empire
Home, Alec Douglas
Honecker, Erich; background and rise to power; homesickness; responsibility for security; lifestyle; enacts border closure; and tightening of border; enhances fortifications; succeeds Ulbricht; leads GDR; controls; hard-currency account; signs Helsinki Accord; meet church leaders; visit to Bonn aborted; visits West Germany; compared with Kohl; revisits Saarland; and German unity; and Gorbachev; and shoot-to-kill policy; hard-line ideology; boasts about Wall; undergoes operation; permits refugees co leave; downfall;; succession to; prosecuted; joins Communist Party; defence of Wall; death
Honecker, Margot
Honecker, Sonia
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horn, Gyula
Howley, Colonel Frank L.
Hoxha, Enver
Hübner, Lieutenant-Colonel
Huguenots
Huhn, Private Reinhold
Human Rights Watch
Humboldt Harbour
Hungary; elections; uprising; trade with West Germany; escapes through; technology; imports; opens border I4; economic revival
Hurd, Douglas
Hussiten Strasse
HVA
Hyannis Port
lch Klage An
Independence, Missouri
India
Ingolsradt
intelligentsia
International Press Centre
Invalidenfriedhof cemetery
Invalidenstrasse; checkpoint
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Iron Cross
Iron Curtain
Israel
Italy
Jäger, Lieutenant-Colonel Harald
James I, King of England
Japan
Jena; battle of
Jenapharm drugs company
Jercha, Heinz
Jerusalem
Jerusalem Strasse
Jesenskä, Milena
Jew Süss
Jews; and ’doctors’ plot’; in Görden prison; property expropriated
Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg
Joffre, Marshal
Johannisthal
John Paul II, Pope
Johns, Colonel Glover
Johnson, Lyndon B.; visits Berlin; chastises Brandt; love of shopping, 255
Junkers
Kabin
Kafka, Franz
Kaiser, Jacob
Kaiserswerther Strasse
Karinhall
Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Stadt
Karlshorst
Kane, Hans Hermann van
Katyn massacre
Kegel, Gerhard
Keibelstrasse
Kelly, Petra
Kennedy, Jackie
Kennedy, John F.; sworn in as president; background and rise to power; and ’missile gap’; and Khrushchev
summit with Khrushchev
television address; and border closure; ill health; response to border closure; irritation with Brandt; Brandt’s letter to; reply to Brandt; letter to Khrushchev; and Checkpoint Charlie confrontation; and Peter Fechter killing; and Cuban Missile Crisis; Berlin visit; ’jelly donut’ story; assassination
Kennedy, Joseph
Kennedy, Robert; and Bolshakov channel; and Berlin visit; promotes cultural-exchange programme
Kessler, General
Keutschen KGB
Khrushchev, Leonid
Khrushchev, Nikita; denunciations of Stalin; appoints Gomulka; support for Ulbricht; and rocketry and nuclear weapons; declaration on prosperity; mocked by Stalin; provokes Berlin Crisis; and Kennedy; and Ulbricht’s Berlin policy; relations with China; relationship with Ulbricht; stations missiles in GDRO; modest personal status; summit with Kennedy; and Kennedy’s television address; meeting with McCloy; and border closure; intentions over Berlin; intentions over GDR; and XXII. Congress; agricultural policy; and Checkpoint Charlie confrontation; resumes nuclear testing; and Cuban Missile Crisis; stripped of powers
Khrushchev, Sergei
Khrushchev, Yulia Nikitchna
Kiel
Kielberg, Elke
Kiesinger, Kun Georg
Kim II-sung
kindergartens
Kippemammler
Knorr-Bremse
Koch, Private Hagent
Kohl, Helmut; and German unity; raises subject of Wall; visits Warsaw; relationship with Mitterand; and German reunification
Köhler, Dodo
Kohler, Foy
KoKo