As in previous years and January of this year, the GDR massively disrupts transit traffic as a reaction to meetings by Bundestag parliamentary parties in West Berlin.
27 November
1970
Start of the negotiations between the state secretaries Egon Bahr (West-Germany) and Michael Kohl (East-Germany). After seventy meetings in the course of two years, the negotiations lead to the signing of the Transit Agreement, the Traffic Treaty and finally the Basic Treaty.