№1-2023-10
№1-2023-10
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2023-07-01-91-99
Kristov I.Yu.
GERMAN-SOVIET AND GERMAN-GERMAN RELATIONS AS A FACTOR OF THE INTEGRATION POLICY OF K. ADENAUER IN 1949-1955
The article analyzes the foreign policy course of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1949-1955 in order to determine how much the specifics of Soviet-German and German-German relations during these years delayed or, on the contrary, brought closer the success of West European integration of the FRG. K. Adenauer drew a direct connection between the entry of the FRG into Western Europe and overcoming the occupation situation, which deprived the West German state of real subjectivity. At the same time, the chancellor was connected with the countries of the socialist camp by the need to respond to the development of events, which in one way or another would affect all-German interests. These included, for example, the attempts of the USSR and the GDR to implement the points of the Potsdam agreements related to the preservation of the integrity of Germany and the regulation of its borders. A direct threat to the integration policy of K. Adenauer was Soviet initiatives aimed at neutralizing Germany, preventing the remilitarization of the FRG and forcing Western countries to comply with post-war agreements on the German question. An analysis of foreign and domestic scientific research, as well as various sources (letters, author’s articles, transcripts of Bundestag sessions and speeches) allows us to see how, under these conditions, K. Adenauer’s policy combined the course for the long existence of two German states and the declared desire for the unification of Germany.
Keywords: Konrad Adenauer, neutral Germany, remilitarization, Potsdam agreement, European Defense Community, Western European integration, NATO, «Stalin’s note», events of June 17, 1953.
Voronez State University (Russia)
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