Item COLD WAR 11/11 - Transcript of interview with politician Klaus Schutz, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Klaus Schûtz, member of Berlin City Assembly, 1954-1957 and 1963-1977, member of Bundestag, 1957-1961, member of Bundesrat, 1961-1977, Governing Mayor of West Berlin, 1967-1977, and West German Ambassador to Israel, 1977-1981, relating to the riots, orchestrated by the SED (German Socialist Unity Party), Berlin City Hall, Sep 1948; the large, public demonstration in Berlin against communist inspired anti-democratic activity and the attempt to prevent the introduction of the Deutschmark in Berlin, 9 Sep 1948; the speech to the demonstration made by Ernst Reuter, Social Democrat Mayor of Berlin, 9 Sep 1948; the importance of Reuter to the population of Berlin, 1946-1949; the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the elections in West Berlin, 5 Dec 1948; the division of Germany into the Federal Republic of Germany and the Democratic Republic of Germany, 1949; the Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; the creation of the Bundeswehr, 1955; the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), May 1955; speculation on the possibility of war between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Democratic Republic of Germany, over Berlin, 1949-1961; anti-communist propaganda broadcast by the Radio in Amerikanischer Sektor (RIAS), and anti-capitalist propaganda broadcast by Radio Berlin, 1949-1961; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961, including the reaction of Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, the influx of refugees from the German Democratic Republic into West Berlin, 1960-1961, and the US response its construction; the visit of US Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson to West Berlin, Aug 1961; the ultimatum, by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to the western powers to withdraw from West Berlin, Nov 1958; the visit of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968; the Cold War acting as a stimulus for the creation of a stable democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1989.