Item COLD WAR 11/16 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Professor Dr Wilhelm Grewe, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Dr Wilhelm Grewe, Federal German Ambassador to the USA, 1958-1962, Permanent Representative to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), 1962-[1969], and Ambassador to Japan and Mongolia, 1971-1976, relating to the character and leadership qualities of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963; the possibility of German reunification, [1955]; the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), May 1955, and the European Economic Community (EEC), Mar 1957; the East Berlin uprising, Jun 1953; relations between the Federal and Democratic Republics of Germany, 1953-1956; the USA's influence and relations with the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, [1950-1956]; the official visit by Adenauer to Moscow, USSR, 1955; the threatening ultimatum against West Berlin made by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nov 1958; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the influx of refugees from the German Democratic Republic into West Berlin, 1960-1961; the opinions held by Adenauer on the character of Walther Ulbricht, leader of the Socialist Unity Party, German Democratic Republic, [1962]; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the policies of Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, 1957-1966; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1955; Grewe's opinion of the character of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963; the official visit to West Berlin of US Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961; the visit of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963. 30pp