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Chronicle 1971

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    • 10 January

      1971

      GDR Defence Minister Hoffmann announces that directional anti-personnel mines (SM-70) are to be installed on the inner German border. The effectiveness of the SM-70 had been shown in the trial period: 75 percent of game hit by this type of mine suffered fatal injuries.
    • 21 January

      1971

      Under the leadership of Erich Honecker, 13 of the 20 members and candidates of the SED Politburo approach CPSU General Secretary Brezhnev, asking him to hold a discussion with Walter Ulbrich obliging the latter to hand in his voluntary resignation.
    • 21 January

      1971

      During "Green Week", the traditional agricultural exhibition in West Berlin – visited by the West German president among others – the GDR again hinders transit traffic to the divided city.
    • 31 January

      1971

      After a 19-year interruption, telephone connections are resumed between the two sections of Berlin on a limited basis.
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