The Berlin Wall (81 page)

Konev, Marshal Ivan; meets Western military missions; and Checkpoint Charlie confromation

Königsberg

Korea

Korean War

Kotikov, General

KPD (CommunisT Party of Germany); in exile; refounded; and creation of SED; Brandt and;
Stasi
and; re-founded

Krajewsky, Major Bruno

Kramer, Erwin

Krenz, Egon; engineers Honecker’s; downfall and becomes party leader; meets Gorbachev; purges old guard; retains power; rescinds travel ban; and border opening;; resigns; expelled from SED

Kressmann, Willy

Kreuzberg

Krüger, lngo

Krupp family

Kufsteiner Strasse

Kunzelmann, Dieter

Kurfürstendamm

Kuwait

Kviesinsky, Yuli

Labour Party

Lacomme, General

Lafontaine, Oskar

Lancaster bombers

landmines

Landwehr Canal

Langhans, Carl Gottfried

Laos

LDPD (Liberal Democratic Party); le Carré, John

League of Nations

Lehrter station

Leibing, Peter

Leipzig Ulbricht’s early life in; Americans occupy; and workers’ uprising; University; sport institute; industries; opposition in; revival

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Leipzig Trade Fair

Leipziger Strasse

Leiser and Company

Lemmer, Ernst

Lemnitzer, General

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Leninallee

Leonhard, Wolfgang

Leuna chemicals works

Lichtenberg

Lichtenrade

Lichtedelde

Lichy, Harrmut

Liebknecht, Karl

Liepnitzsee

Life
magazine

Ligeti, György

Lightner, Allan

reports on border closure

enters East Berlin

Lightner, Mrs

Lipschitz, Joachim

Listufer

Litfin, Günter

Litfin, Jürgen

Lobetal

Lochner, Robert H.

London

Longwy

Lorenz, Peter

Lorenz, Siegfried

Louis XIV, King of France

Löwe, Lothar

Löwenthal, Richard

Lübeck

Luce, Major

Luckenwalde

Luisenstrasse

Lunser, Bernd

Luxembourg

Luxemburg, Rosa

McCarthy, Senator Joseph

McCloy, John

McHugh, General

Macmillan, Harold; visits Moscow; meets Kennedy after summit; and Checkpoint Charlie confrontation; resigns; influence on America

McNair Barracks

McNamara, Robert S

Magdeburg; Americans occupy; and workers’ uprising; industries; demonsctations

Magdeburg Bridge

Maginot, André

Maginot Line

Majakowskiring

Malaysia

Malinovsky Marshal

Malzahn, Claus Christian

Mandelstam, Osip

Mann, Thomas

Mannheim Mao Tse-tung

Märchenbrunnen

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria

Marienfelde reception camp; Johnson vists;
Stasi
agents in

Markgraf, Paul

Maron, Brigitte

Maron, Karl

Marschallbrücke

Marshall, General George C.

Marshall Plan

Marx, Karl

Marx-Engels-Platz

Marxism-Leninism

Masur, Kurt

Matern, Hermann

Mauerstrasse

Mauriac, François

Mautner, Karl

Mautner, Martha

Max, Prince of Baden

Maxwell Taylor, General

Mecklenburg

Mein Kampf

Meixner, Hans

Mende, Erich

Merkel, Angela

Merseburg

Merseburger, Peter

Messmer, Pierre

Metropolis

Meyer, Till

middle classes

Middle East

Mielke, Erich; background; heads
Stasi
; and Honecker's downfall; and collapse of GDR; apologia for Stasi; prosecuted; death

Mikoyan, Anastas

military missions

Miroshinchenko, Soviet Deputy High Commissioner

Mittag, Günter

Mitte district

Mitterand, François

Modrow, Hans

Mohrenstrasse

Molotov, Vyacheslavr

Momper, Walter

Monte Carlo

Moscow; Ulbrichr visits; training school; Lenin addresses meeting; military archives; Congress; Olympic Games; Krenz visits

Moscow News

Müggelsee

Müller, Rudolf

Munich

Murphy, David E.

Murphy, Robert

Murrow, Edward R.

Nagy, Imre

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor

NATO; solidarity; commitment to West Berlin; intelligence services; nuclear policy; broadcasts targeted; list of banned exports; right-wing leaders

Nazis; rehabilitation of; party bosses; arrests and expulsions; death camps; join KVP; diehard; resistance to; war criminals; expropriation of Jewish property; film-making; hero-worship; refugees flee; Kiesinger’s membership of; popularity of regime; and homosexuality; denazification; fantasies; era;
see also
neo-Nazis

NBC; finances tunnel

NDPD (National Democratic Party)

Neisse, river

neo-Nazis

Netherlands

Neue Wache

Neue Deutschland
; justifies killings

attacks refugees

Neuk$$$lln; tunnel

Neumann, Alfred

Neumann, Heinz

Neutzner, Matthias

New Forum

New York

New York Times

Newsweek
magazine

Nicaragua

Niemen, river

Nirschke, Karl-Heinz

Nixon, Richard M.

NKVD

Noffke, Siegfried

Nordbahn

Nordbahnhof

Norstad, General Lauris

North America

North Sea

Norway

Nosferatu

Notre Dame University

Novaya Zemlya

NPD

NSV

nuclear weapons; Soviet; stationed in GDR; escalation policy; Soviet tests; for West Germany; missile escalation

Nuremberg; war-crimes trials

Oberbaumbrücke

Oder, river

O’Donnell, James

O’Donnell, Kenneth P.

Oelschlegel, Vera

Oelssner, Fred

Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Ohnesorge, Benno

oil

Olympic Games

Operation Vermin

Orlopp, Josef

Orlov, General Alexander

Oslo

Ostalgie

Ostbahnhof

Osrkreuz junction

Otto-Grorewohl-Strasse

Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza

Pakistan

Palestine

Palmerston, Lord

Pankow

Pankow-Schönholz

Paris; Communists in exile in; four-power meetings; abandoned summit

Paris Match

Pariser Platz

Paschau, Comrade

Pawel, Colonel von

PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism)

Peking

perestroika

Pervukhin, Mikhail

Pérain, Marshal

Peter III, Tsar, II

Philadelphia

Pieck, Arthur

Pieck, Wilhelm; leads SED; visits Stalin; GDR president; death,

Pitsunda

Pittsburgh

Plattenballten

Platz der Republik

Plaza Hotel

Plesetsk

Plzn Poland; dismantled by Frederick the Great; and Hitler-Stalin pact; post-war; Germans expelled; uprising; and exodus from GDR; trade with West Germany; subsidised food supplies; acquires German territory; treaty with West Germany; technology imports; political difficulties; coal exports; Solidarity comes to power; economic revival

Polaris submarines

Polish Communist Party

Pomerania

Portugal

potatoes

Potsdam; wall; Sans Souci palace; grave of Frederick the Great; Cäcilienhof Lodge; military missions; and border escapes; demonstrations

Porsdam Agreement

Potsdam Conference

Porsdamer Platz; border permanently closed; subway station closed; rank craps installed; attack on Wall; new crossing point

Powell, Sir Charles

Prague; GDR refugees leave through; Lobkovic Palace

Prague Spring

Presley, Elvis

prisoners of war

Prussia; unification with Brandenburg; army; awarded royal crown; bankruptcy; and Seven Years War; staple food; expansion; alliance with Britain; under Napoleon; reforms; and War of Liberation; and united Germany; war with Austria; GDR and;
see also
East Prussia

Pullach

punks

Puzo, Mario

Quartier Napoléon

Qassem, Brigadier Abd alKarim

radio and television broadcasts

Radio Belgrade

Radio Berlin

RAF

railways; model;
see also
Berlin rail corridor

Rakowski, Mieczyslaw

RAND Corporation

Ransdorf

Raptis, George

Ravensbrück

Rayburn, Sam

Readiness Police

Reagan, Nancy

Reagan, Ronald; visics East Berlin; becomes president; visils West Berlin

Red Army; helmee design; and Berlin arrests; quells workers’ uprising; suppresses Hungarian uprising, IOI; cuts in manpower; and border closure; counts American reinforcements; and collapse of DR

Red Town Hall

Red Wing, Minnesota

Redel, General Siegfried

Reedy, George; refugees, leave GDR; organizations

Rehfelde cemetery

Reich Chancellery ruins

Reichstag; established; socialist deputies; Ulbricht enters; Nazi deputies; SAP represetation

Reichstagufer

Reimann, Brigitte

Reinhold-Huhn-Strasse

Reinickendorf religion, persecution and tolerance; Adenauer and

Reuter, Ernst; mayor of West Berlin; death

Reuters

Rheinsberger Strasse

Rhine, river

Rhineland

RlAS (Radio in the American Sector)

Riesa

Roberts, Sir Frank

Romans

Rommel, General Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosinenbomber

Restock

Resow, Walt

Rothenkirchen

Royal Corps of Military Police

Rüdow