Berlin: Negotiations between the Berlin Senat and German Democratic Republic: Meetings of the Visits Commissioners

A file containing records of meetings between the visits commissioners of the Berlin Senate and the East German government. Subjects covered in these meetings included the construction and operation of the new autobahn between Berlin and Hamburg, and the associated border crossings; the necessity of improving communications between East Germany and West Berlin; and a campaign of vandalism directed against the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn. Other subjects discussed in these meetings included East German law on visitor traffic; the smuggling of refugees out of East Germany; a list of West Berliners who had broken East German law; the East German minimum exchange regulations; a legal dispute between the Berlin power company Bewag and Deutsche Reichsbahn; a series of border incidents and attacks on the boundary between East and West Berlin; and a visit to Berlin by the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.