Thursday, December 4, 2014, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Panel Discussion at the GHI - Directions
Speakers: Brandon Grove (chargé and then Deputy Chief of Mission in East Berlin 1974-1976), Rozanne Ridgway (Ambassador 1983-1985), Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University), Robert Gerald Livingston (GHI), and Christian Ostermann (Moderatoer, Woodrow Wilson Center)
The German Democratic Republic, East Germany, was not recognized by the United States until 1974, 25 years after its founding, and was always of minor importance in American foreign policy. On all matters relating to Berlin, Washington dealt with the Soviet Union. That continued even after West Germany's Ostpolitik and establishment of formal relations between the two Germanies in the early 1970s made U. S. recognition of the G.D.R. unavoidable.
Please RSVP (acceptance only) by Sept. 26. Tel: 202.387.3355 - Fax: 202.387.6437 - E-mail