History of Reunification of Germany
The history of Reunification of Germany traces back to the fall of the Berlin wall. The wall was constructed with the intention of creating a demarcation between the east and the west Berlin. Erected in the year 1961, the wall was meant to prevent the mass exodus of people from either side of the territory, especially the Eastern part of Germany. All the connecting pathways between the two territories were blocked with a barbed wire, except for a few, which were used to exchange the captivated spies from either side.The fall of the Berlin Wall proved to be a very important event in the Reunification of Germany. The fall was sparked off when the reformist Hungarian Government aided the refugees from West Germany to escape into the nearby provinces of East Germany. With the increasing number of such secretive immigrations, the Berlin Wall was finally forced to be dismantled in 1989. The whole process of Reunification of Germany is known as Die Wende, which means a turning or a change.
On 18th March 1990, GDR or the German Democratic Republic and the FRG or the Federal Republic of Germany, endorsed into a treaty called the Unification Treaty. The four occupying allied powers joined in the treaty to form the Two Plus Four Treaty. The treaty granted complete sovereignty to the unified Germany, irrespective of the differences that the two territories had between themselves.
The reunified German State remained a part of the NATO and the European Community, which was later renamed as the European Union.
