The Berlin Wall (80 page)

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