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    • 4 December

      1971

      While deciding on the installation of anti-personnel mines on the inner German border (SM-70), there are some qualms in the executive committee of the GDR Ministry of Defence as to whether the likely triggering of the mines might not provoke a politically unfavourable reaction from the West and whether it might not therefore be better to develop and use less effective mines. Defence Minister Hoffmann proposes allowing Erich Honecker to decide this question as general secretary. – On 10 January 1972, Hoffmann announces to top staff that the mine will be introduced.
    • 20 December

      1971

      In East Berlin, the "agreement between the Senate and the GDR government on the facilitation and improvement of travel and visitor traffic" and the "agreement between the Senate and the GDR government on the regulation of the question of enclaves created by territorial exchange" are signed. more
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