Homepage > Chronicle

Chronicle 1985

  • January 
  • February 
  • March 
  • April 
  • May 
  • June

     
    • 10 June

      1985

      In a memo on a conversation with the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss, SED foreign currency procurer Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski records Strauss as saying that Helmut Kohl had a "bad team" and was showing "serious leadership faults as Chancellor." more
    • 10/11 June

      1985

      The French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius becomes the first government leader from the three Western Powers to go on a state visit to the GDR.
    • 11 June

      1985

      In the biggest spy exchange of the Cold War, 25 Western agents are swapped for four Eastern agents on the Glienicke Bridge between Potsdam and West Berlin.

      less
  • July 
  • August 
  • September 
  • November 
Top of page