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PDF 90 Jan 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 12 to FCO (1641Z) (“The German Question: Our Public Line”) [MT comment: "She thought it showed a lack of understanding of our policy which she found alarming"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 18 to FCO (1735Z) (“Talk with Genscher about the German Question”) [Genscher dismisses confederation; "thinks territory of FRG could remain in NATO after unity"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 20 to FCO (1824Z) (“Talk with Teltschik about the German Question”) [Kohl would announce no new policy on 10 Jan; Federal Government worried about rise in emigration from GDR and risk Communist Party will manipulate GDR elections] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 25 to FCO (1515Z) (“GDR Internal Situation”) [Round Table almost collapses; demonstrations resume in Leipzig] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 26 to FCO (1605Z) (“GDR Internal Situation”) [neither government nor opposition have popular support; likelihood of increased emigration and support for unification] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 10 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (1150Z) (MT, Hurd) ("German reunification") ["We should not simply regard this as inevitable and wait for events to overtake us": need for "specific proposals to put to President Mitterrand on 20 January"; Hurd warned "What we could NOT produce was a blue print for stopping German reunification. The Prime Minister accepted this", but repeated that it should not be regarded as inevitable] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 37 to FCO (1941Z) (“Kohl on the German Question”) [Kohl's "carefully measured statement ... in his first major comment of the New Year"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 42 to FCO (1748Z) (“Call on Genscher: the Four Powers and the German Question”) [Genscher warns against Four Power discussion of Germany as opposed to Berlin] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 11 to FCO (1600Z) (“GDR Internal Situation”) [serious troubles] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Policy Planning Staff letter to No.10 ("Trilateral Conference on Ostpolitik: 12 & 13 January") ["This Konrad-Adenhauer-Stiftung Conference was supposed to be about Eastern Europe. In practice it was about Germany... The strong German team... all expected that a decisive move towards German unity would take place in the course of this year"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 41 to FCO (1020Z) (“GDR Internal Situation”) [government break-up avoided by Modrow conceding on main points; 15,000 emigrate in first two weeks of January] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 conversation record (Powell, Teltschik) [Kohl suggests Powell and Teltschik "had one of our meetings fairly soon"; MT agrees] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 49 to FCO (1005Z) (“The German Question”) [fresh thinking from Federal Government about proposed "contractural community" with GDR] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Paris telegram 73 to FCO (1215Z) ("Kohl's Paris Speech: the German Question") ["Germany's role in the Europe of tomorrow"; summary of main points; "His purpose was clearly to reassure his mainly French audience"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 63 to FCO (1850Z) (“GDR Internal Situation”) [briefing MT before her talks with Mitterrand; "The situation is fragile and volatile. The governability of the country is in question"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 70 to FCO (1930Z) ("Secretary of State's visit to the GDR: talks with Modrow") [Modrow "leaves overall impression that GDR could easily tip over the edge into chaos"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 conversation record (MT, Hurd) [Hurd recounted briefly his visit to East Germany; touch and go whether Modrow would last until May elections; important to prevent East Germany sliding into total chaos; keeping close contact with French] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 92 to FCO (1804Z) (“Call on Kohl: German Question”) [Powell comment: "A very clear ... statement of Kohl's ambitions: reunification by 1 Jan 1995" with US forces remaining, no mention of French or British] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hurd minute to MT (“Visit to the GDR: 22-24 January”) [main concern in GDR is getting through until free elections 6 May; Modrow "a decent, tired man near the end of his tether"; "practical unification is happening day by day"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: BMG Berlin telegram 015 to FCO (1400Z) (“Call on Weizsaecker: the German Question”) ["more cautious and sober than Kohl"; MT comment: "He is just cleverer. His aims are the same"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 103 to FCO (1714Z) (“German Question: Seiters/Modrow meeting”) [Seiters briefing three allied ambassadors confident bringing forward of East German elections should enable them to be held without major breakdown] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 83 to FCO (1630Z) (“GDR: Internal Situation”) [election advanced to 18 March] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 81 to FCO (1550Z) (“GDR-Soviet Relations”) [Modrow to visit Moscow 30 Jan] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (“Representation of Berliners in Bonn”) [FRG wants this to establish that Berlin will be the capital of a united Germany; best course - "lie low on this until the Russians show their hand"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 109 to FCO (1621Z) (“Germany and NATO”) ["Genscher states publicly that in a united Germany today's GDR should not become part of NATO"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 240 to FCO (1612Z) (“Bilateral discussion of German issues”) [Patrick Wright's talks in Washington on Germany - "Americans worried events may run away with us, hence need for rapid and secret bilateral clearing of minds"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Powell letter to Hurd PS ("Germany") [MT "finds the overall picture very worrying. Events are moving faster than ever"; considers "substantial message" to Bush & follow-up visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (1740-1815Z) (MT, Hurd) [Hurd report on his discussions with Bush & James Baker] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (1740-1815Z) (MT, Hurd) [MT "considering getting together a few academic and other experts on Germany and Central Europe for an informal discussion"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 248 to FCO (0015Z) (“Secretary of State's call on Vice-President Quayle”) [discussion of German unification, which Quayle thought "would certainly come"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Jan 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Moscow telegram 148 to FCO (1223Z) (“Soviet Union/GDR: Visit of Modrow”) [Gorbachev tells press "no one casts doubt on the question of German unity"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 126 to FCO (1842Z) (“The German Question”) [further statement of Genscher of how best to achieve unification in a European framework] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 127 to FCO (1920Z) (“Genscher's speech of 31 January: Germany and NATO”) [NATO membership irrevocable; "a neutralist unified Germany was not in question"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Gorbachev letter to MT (Germany) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Paris telegram 139 to FCO (1856Z) (“Call on Dumas: developments in Europe”) [strongly favours closer cooperation with UK but also faster European integration] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 276 to FCO (1700Z) (“Bilateral discussion of German issues”) ["clear US message is that speed is essential if we are to avoid a free fall to German unity"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE East Berlin telegram 100 to FCO (1615Z) (“German Unification”) [GDR Foreign Minister summoned HMA to give weight to Modrow's remarks on unification; need to protect Four Power interests and dangers of revived nationalism] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Hurd letter to MT (message for Kohl) [seeks permission to take a personal message to Kohl that MT believes CDU victory crucial in autumn polls and offering help] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Moscow telegram 180 to FCO (0929Z) (“Soviet Union-GDR: the German Question”) ["Gorbachev expresses understanding for the German striving to rapprochement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 conversation record (Charles Powell, Kossov) [delivers 2 Feb message from Gorbachev to which Powell gives initial response] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 letter to FCO (Hurd letter to MT) [MT agrees his approach to Kohl but underlines of agreeing main steps to unification with the Four Powers and the crucial importance of Germany remaining in NATO] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 137 to FCO (1644Z) ("FRG policy on the German Question: German political director gives read out on Genscher's talks with Baker") [Powell comment: "This is it: the Germans are going full tilt for reunification without waiting for anyone"; "Kastrup says that the situation in the GDR is now so near collapse that the Federal Government is embarking immediately on economic and monetary union. ... Kastrup claims that Baker is on board for this"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKREP Brussels telegram 306 to FCO (1908Z) (“Foreign Affairs Council: 5 February: Lunch: Germany”) [Genscher gave long account of GDR over lunch emphasising institutional collapse and strength of call for 'unification'] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 139 to FCO (1813Z) (“German issues”) [opportunity for western allies to influence FRG policy] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Paris telegram 142 to FCO (1732Z) (“Discussion of German issues”) [French "worried about German priorities"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Washington telegram 295 to FCO (1730Z) (“Genscher's visit to Washington: 2 February”) ["further confirms US views that unification is on the fast track"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 133 to FCO (0646Z) (“Germany and NATO”) ["SPD unsoundness on a united Germany's eventual relationship to NATO"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 134 to FCO (0956Z) (“Your visit to Bonn 6 February”) [FRG government and public wholly preoccupied by unification] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 136 to FCO (1531Z) (“Kohl's speech in Davos on 3 February”) ["Heavy stress on Europe as context within which Germans should see their future"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO letter to No.10 (“German Unification”) [German press still misrepresenting government's position on German unification - suggested reply for MT to make to PMQ tomorrow] [declassified Jul 2017]

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