The GDR Council of Ministers issues a ruling regarding the activity of Western press correspondents in the GDR. West German broadcasters ARD and ZDF and news agencies, daily newspapers and magazines in the Federal Republic all send correspondents to East Berlin. The Council also agrees to set up four new border crossings on the inner German border for inner German "minor border traffic".
8 March
1973
The GDR rejects the payment of any reparations to Israel.
13 March
1973
Spring trade fair in Leipzig: in 1972, German-German trade hits a new high at over five billion DM.
15/16 March
1973
At an international conference of the SED Central Committee, the SED’s chief ideologue, Kurt Hager, speaks of an "irreconcilable difference" between the "socialist nation in the GDR" and the "capitalist nation" in West Germany.
