The Soviet party and state leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker meet in the Crimea.more
29 August
1982
In a conversation with the head of the West German Permanent Mission in the GDR, Hans Otto Bräutigam, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski warns that the West German government will be drawn into the vortex of the "economic war" and further international tensions if "clear signals regarding the restoration of the decades-long credit relations between the GDR and major international banks, including banks in the FRG," were not given.
