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Chronicle 1984

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    • 2 February

      1984

      The National Defence Council of the GDR decides to remove the menacing spiked obstacles known in the West as "Stalin Lawns" (altogether 38,000) and the "dragon’s teeth" anti-tank obstacles (total length: 19 kilometres) on the Berlin border because of their negative appearance.
    • 9 February

      1984

    • 27 February

      1984

      After the loan of billions of DM to the GDR engineered by Franz-Josef Strauss in 1983, the SED leadership suddenly allows many more people to move to West Germany. By the end of 1984, some 35,000 migrants from the GDR will arrive in West German reception centres (1983: around 8,000).

      Although the Ministry for Security hopes to end the "nightmare of migration" by letting people go to decrease the internal pressure, the opposite effect occurs; the wave of migrations creates an enormous desire to follow suite and more than ever encourages many people to apply to migrate.
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