WEST BERLIN: WEST BERLIN AND EAST GERMAN OFFICIALS AGREE TO OPEN THE BERLIN WALL FOR CHRISTMAS.

Record ID: 344682

  • Title: WEST BERLIN: WEST BERLIN AND EAST GERMAN OFFICIALS AGREE TO OPEN THE BERLIN WALL FOR CHRISTMAS.
  • Date: 25th November 1965
  • Summary: 1. SV Horst Korber arrives 0.15 2. SV Doctor Kohl arrives 0.33 3. GV Building 0.37 4. SV Doctor Kohl leaves speaks to pressmen 0.46 5. SV Tape recorders 0.49 6. SV Horst Korber surrounded by pressmen 0.52 7. SV Tape recorders 0.56 8. TV Korber into car 1.02 Initials DS/V/RM/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 10th December 1965 12:00
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  • Location: West Berlin
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAB0XW8UHWQO0TUK3N6PUQGLEC8
  • Story Text: The Berlin Wall will be opened again this Christmas to allow West Berliners to visit their relatives on the other side. West berlin and West German officials today (Thursday) signed an agreement after five months of difficult negotiations which will open the Wall for the third time since it was put up in 1961.

    Agreement between the authorities came just in time. An estimated 600,000 West Berliners would not have obtained their passes in time for Christmas if 16 offices, set up by East Germany, did not reopen on Monday. The accord will also allow West Berliners to visit the Eastern sector for urgent reasons until March 31, next year.

    Dr. Michael Kohl, East Germany's State Secretary, and Herr Horst Korber, a West Berlin City Councillor, signed the agreement for their respective administrations. It is a compromise between West German views that the old 'Wall' agreement continue for another year and an East German proposal that the previous accord be extended for only another four months.

    Fresh talks on a new, and perhaps longer arrangement, will begin in January.
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