Chronicle of the Berlin Wall 1973 | Chronicle of the Wall

18-22 May
1973

First visit by the Soviet party and state leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to West Germany.
30 May
1973

The "minor border traffic" as laid out in the Basic Treaty is heavily restricted by the GDR: of the 694 border municipalities, 315 remain closed of and 274 are partly excluded.

RIAS report on the construction work at the new Duderstadt/Worbis border crossing, 24 March 1973 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Morgen, Moderatorin/Reporter: Ingrid Tourneau, Jürgen Rusche)
In June, the Bergen/Salzwedel border crossing, which was closed in 1952, is reopened.

RIAS report on the reopening of the Bergen (Dumme) - Salzweder border crossing, 20 and 21 June 1973 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Mittag, Moderator/Reporter: Wolf-Dieter Roeske, Rainer Wolfram, Friedrich Wilhelm Kramer)

Chronicle 1973