What are you looking for?

Content
Number of results found
Taxonomies A – Z

Navigation

Welcome

The Political Archive

Political Archive

The Political Archive

The Political Archive is the 'memory' of the foreign service. It has preserved the files on German foreign policy since 1867, as well as the international treaties signed by the Federal Republic of Germany and its predecessors in title.

Filing documents

Syrian donates money for German refugees in 1989

Report of September 1989 from the Embassy in Damascus

The birth of European unification: the Schuman Plan

Schuman and Adenauer (centre) after signing the Schuman Declaration

22 December 1989 – Brandenburg Gate re-opens

Kohl and Modrow at the opening of the border crossing point at the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989

9 November 1989 – News of the fall of the Wall goes around the world

Young people with hammers and chisels helping to bring down the Berlin Wall. Berlin, 9 November 1989

Foreign propaganda and warfare: the “Führer’s Order”

Excerpt from the “Führer’s Order of 8 September 1939”

19 August 1989 – A picnic for freedom

Jubilant GDR refugees: They crossed the border between Hungary and Austria on 19 August 1989

The July Crisis: an ultimatum and an unexpected response

Postcard from 1915 of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph I

The “border pass agreement” of 1963

The protocol of 17 December 1963

Online archive on the July 1914 crisis

Reading Room of the Political Archive

The European Union’s eastern enlargement

Public celebration in Słubice in the night from 30 April to 1 May 2004

Document of the month: The “blank cheque” of 1914

Secret! This was at the top of the telegram later known as the “blank cheque”.

Document of the month: The Sarajevo assassination

Document from the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office