Authors: Frederick Taylor
Rühmann, Heinz
Ruhr industrial area
Rummelsburg station
Ruppiner Strasse
Rusk, Dean
Russia; Napoleon invades; and triple alliance; revolution; land reform; Stalin’s,418;
See also
Soviet Union
Saarland
Sabolyk, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Sachsenhausen
Salinger, Pierre
SALT II arms-reduction treaty
San Antonio
San Francisco
Sandanistas
Sanitz
Santiago
São Paulo
SAP (Socialist Workers’ Party)
Sauerbruch, Dr
Saxony; invaded by Prussia, II; socialism in; careerists disliked; industries; growing unrest; neo-Nazi parties in
Saxony-Anhalt
S-Bahn; strike; cut off at border; stations; attacks on trains
Schabowski, Günter; addresses demonstrators; announces open borders; expelled from SED
Schacht, Dr Hjalmar
Schadow, Johann Gottfried
Schalck-Golodkowski, Alexander
Scharnhorst, General
Scharoun, Hans
Schiffbauerdamm
Schiller Friedrich
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Schirdewan, Karl
Schlaffke, Horst
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schleswig-Holstein
Schloss Wilkendorf
Schmidt, Helmut
Schmidt, Lutz
Schmidtchen, Jörgen
Schmollerstrasse
Schönbrunn Palace
Schöneberg; Town Hall; Kennedy's speech at Town Hall
Schönefeld Airport
Schönfliess
Schönhausen Castle
Schönholz, goods station
Schönholzer Strasse
Schröder, Gerhard
Schröder, Louise
Schubert, Hermann
Schulte, Fritz
Schultz, Egon
Schulze, Peter
Schulz-Ladegast, Klaus; sentence halved; escapes; father released
Schumacher, Kurt
Schumann, Corporal Conrad
Schürer, Gerhard
Schwander, Rudi
Schwedler Strasse
Schwerin
Scott-Heron, Gil
Sebastianstrasse
Second World War; aftermath of
SED (Communist Party); creation of; trails in elections; and introduction of Communism in Germany; demonstrations; and establishment of GDR; purged; and East Berlin administration; admits mistakes; and workers’ uprising; cultural credibility; Honecker and; Brandt and; lifestyle of élites; Mielke and; and border closure
members escape; establishes links with SPD; leadership and demonstrations; members leave; participates in free elections; changes name
Seidel, Harry
Seifert, Major-General
Sejna, Jan
Selbmann, Fritz
Selbstschussanlagen
Semenov, Vladimir
Seoul
Serov, General Ivan
Sesta, Domenico (’Mimmo’)
Seven Years War
Shanghai
Shelepin, Alexander
Shevardnadze, Eduard
Showalter, Colonel
Siekmann, Ida
Silesia
Sindermann, Horst
skinheads
Slovakia
Smaroda, Major
Smolensk
socialism
Solidarity
Soloviev Colonel Andrei I.
Sonnena1lee
(film)
Sonnenallee crossing point
Sorensen, Theodore
South Korean airliner, shot down
Soviet Military Administration (SMA)
Soviet Union; defence of; German Communists in; war reparations; and division of Berlin-; opposes free trade area; and advent of Cold War; nuclear weapons; post-Stalin leadership; economy; flag torn down; purges; rocket science; relations with China; support for GDR; consequences of border; closure; policy on Berlin; acquires German territory; and Berlin Agreement; oil exports; involvement in Afghanistan; confrontation with USA; and German unity; and Brezhnev Doctrine; reform of; troops withdrawn from Germany; collapse of;
see also
Russia
Soviet War Memorial
Spain
Spandau
Spandau Ship Canal
Spanish Civil War
Spartakist League
SPD (Social Democratic Parry); re-formed; and creation of SED; election gains; activists arrested; continues to work in East; under Schumacher; song; Brandt and; in Berlin elections;
Stasi
and; clandestine network in GDR; American relations with; joins government; establishes links with SED; re-forms in GDR; and German reunification,; in GDR elections; in all-German elections; coalition with PDS
Speer, Albert
spies; exchanges; SED; tools of trade; positive effects of spying; Guillaume affair
Spree, river
Springer, Axel; hostility towards
Ostpolitik
; and attack on Dutschke; and political prisoners
Sputnik
Sputnik
magazine
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The
, (film)
SS
Stalin, Josef; pact with Hider,95; and Berlin,; and division of Germany; and nuclear weapons; and creation of SED; and introduction of Communism in Germany; and Korean War; offer on German unification; and GDR borders; death; and ’doctors’ plot’; portraits burned; denounced by Khrushchev; mocks Khrushchev, I; personality cult; body removed from mausoleum; Ulbricht rejects; and Baltic states; and mass murder
Stalinallee
Stalingrad, battle of
Star Wars project
Starnberger See
Stasi
; leaders; established; ’night and fog’ actions; and SED leaders; headquarters; Mielke heads; motto; and border closure; forbidden area; interrogation prison; interrogation methods; military arm; and border escapes; counter-espionage; and crossing permits; strength; informers; and sports; and punks; dog-training school; foreign espionage; costs of; and KoKo; observers at Checkpoint Charlie; and Helsinki activists; and exit-visa movement; surveys popular opinion; and collapse of GDR; Mielke’s apologia for; Hagen Koch’s career; aids Chilean dissidents; killings in
West Germany; films reveal reveal truth about
State Opera
State Porcelain Factory
Steel, Sir Christopher
Stegliz
Stoph, Willi
Strasbourg
Strasse des. Juni
Strassenberg, Gerhard
Strausberg
Strausbeger Platz
Strauss, Franz-Josef
Streletz, Colonel-General Fritz
Strelitzer Strasse
Stults, Lieutenant Claude L.
Stumm police
Stuttgart
Sudeten Germans
Suhr Otto
Sweden
’Swedish drink’
Switzerland
Syngman Rhee
Tägliche Rundschau
Taipei
Taiwan
Tannenberg, battle of
Tegel Airport
Telstar satellite
Teltow
Teltow Canal
Tempelhof Airport
Tempelhof High School
Teufel, Fritz
Tews, Walter
Thälmann, Ernst
Thatcher, Margaret
Thieme, Dieter
Third World; Soviet influence in; students; diplomats; arms sales
Thirty Years War
Thompson, Llewellyn
Thorkildsen, Anna Carlotta
Thuringia; industries; border crossings; doctors in; manufacture of carved toys
Tiergarten
Tiul’panov, Colonel Sergei
Torgau; trade unions; Polish
Trapos
(transport police); shoot escapee
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Westphalia
Trenkner, Joachim
Treptow; tunnel
Treptower Park
Treuhandastalt
Trier
Truman, Harry S.
Truman Doctrine
Tunner, Lieutenant-General William H.
Turkey
Tutzing conference
U-Bahn UFA
Ulbricht, Lotte
Ulbricht, Walter; and KPD; and Communist putsch; goes into hiding; returns to Germany; and creation of SED; mentality; and introduction of Communist in Germany; and establishment of GDR; and Korean War; and subversion of West Germany; intends to close border; policy of ’building socialism’; leadership threatened; personality cult; political survival; and Honecker; declaration on prosperity; receives Khrushchev’s support; provokes Berlin Crisis; lifestyle; becomes head of state; and Kennedy; increases pressure on Berlin; visits China; relationship with Khrushchev; meetings with Khrushchev; reaction against; hints at building of wall; and border closure; informs Politburo and ministers; intentions over Berlin; and border escapes; and myth of defensive wall; and tightening of border; supports construction of wall; and shoot-to-kill policy; fails to achieve peace tearty with Soviet Union; successes; death; rejects Stalin; introduces economic reforms; removed from power; last birthday celebrations; anti-religious militancy
uniforms; Wehrmacht; KVP;
Trapos
; FDJ
United Kingdom,
see
Britain
United Nations; Security Council; GDR becomes member; Human Rights Commission; Charter
United States Information Agency
United States Information Service
United States of America; German exiles in; joins First World War; and division of Berlin; and free trade area; Berliners’ affection for; and division of Germany; military presence in Germany; rearmament; and Stalin's reunification offer; flag; threat from Soviet nuclear weapons; commitment to West Germany,; involvement in Far East; in arms race; commitment to West Berlin; in fourpower talks; response to
border closure; difficulties in relations with West Germany and West Berlin; policy shifts; impact of Vietnam War; increase in military budget; confrontation with Soviet Union; and German reunification; economic revival
Unter den Linden; Napoleon marches down; Nazis parade down; Soviet embassy; demonstrations
UPI press agency
Upper Spree Cable Works
Urban, Rudolf
USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party)
USSR,
see
Soviet Union
Veigel, Burkhart; converted car
Verdun, defence of
Verner, Paul
Victoria, Princess
Vienna; Kennedy-Khrushchev summit
Vietnam War
Villa Hügel
Voice of America
Volkssturm
Vopos (Volkspolizei)
; and border closure; carry our deportations; psychological preparation; stationed along autobahn; and border escapes; and punks; and departure of refugees; and collapse of GDR
Wall Street
Wandlitz; F-Club; social life; wall
Wannsee
War of Liberation
War of the Austrian Succession
Warnemünde
Warsaw; Kohl visits
Warsaw Pact; meetings; economies; and Berlin border closure; economic links with West Germany
Washington, George
Watkinson, Harold
Watson, General Albert
Wedding
Wedemeyer, General Albert
Weeks, Sir Ronald
Weimar
Weimar Republic
Weissensee
Wella
Werderscher Markt
Werner, Dr Arthur
Wessel, Horst
West Berlin: refugees from GDR; US commitment to; geographical vulnerability; police; access to; perceptions of Western inaction; reception for Johnson and Clay; reception for First Battle Group; Adenauer visits; Soviet intelligence in; Allied rule recognised; press; paramilitary police; students; illegal weapons in; Kennedy visits; status as beacon of freedom; culture and radicalism; business and industry; depopulation; and homosexuality; Shah of Iran visits; Reagan visits