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GERMAN LANGUAGE GUIDE 1. KONRAD ADENAUER A. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Papers as President (Ann Whitman File), International Series, Boxes 14-16 Consists of some 30 file folders. Includes social and official correspondence between Eisenhower and Adenauer, background documentation surrounding Adenauer’s visit to the United States in 1960, and memos discussing issues of joint U.S.-FRG concern. Some of Adenauer’s letters are in German with State Department translations provided. The student can report to the class on German “diplomatic language” found in Adenauer’s letters and not normally learned in the classroom and can also describe important issues facing the United States and Federal Republic of Germany during this period. B. Papers of John Foster Dulles, General Correspondence and Memoranda Series Box 1, File Folder: “Memos of Conversations General A Through D (1).” Contains memoranda of Secretary Dulles’ conversations with Adenauer on various European matters. Box 2, File Folder: “Strictly Confidential - A-B (1).” This file includes letters exchanged between Adenauer and Dulles, including letters in German plus translations. These cover relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, and other matters and reflect the close relationship between Secretary Dulles and Chancellor Adenauer. C. Papers of Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Box 13, File Folders: “Adenauer Funeral (1)-(3).” These three folders include material on the state funeral for German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, which Ms. Dulles attended. The folders contain some material in German, various schedules and itineraries of President Lyndon Johnson who attended, and newspaper clippings of the event. The student can report on religious terminology found in the funeral program and not normally studied in the classroom. D. Papers of Lauris Norstad, Box 126, File Folders: “Adenauer Tributes 1963 (1)-(4).” Folder 1 contains an issue of Der Spiegel devoted to tributes to Konrad Adenauer. This magazine should test advanced students’ language skills. These file folders contain other correspondence with some in German. E. Adenauer Briefs 1951-1953, by Siedler Verlag. This volume contains Adenauer letters in German and should be a challenge to advanced students. Suggested Reading: Konrad Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer, Memoirs 1945-53, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1965 Richard Hiscocks, The Adenauer Era, Philadelphia/New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966 2. U.S. POLICY TOWARD FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY A. Records of White House Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, NSC Series, Policy Papers Subseries, Box 23, File Folder: “NSC 5727 U.S. Policy Toward Germany.” NSC 5727 is a 61 page document issued by the National Security Council on December 13, 1957. This paper covers such issues in U.S.-German relations as German reunification, the Federal Republic’s relations with Western Europe, and other political, military and economic aspects of U.S.-FRG relations. B. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Papers as President (Ann Whitman File), NSC Series, Box 9, File Folder: “354th Meeting of NSC, February 6, 1958.” The summary of discussion at the 354th NSC meeting includes a discussion of NSC 5727 with comments by the President and other members of the National Security Council on U.S. Policy toward Germany. This document reflects the formulation of U.S. Governmental policy at the highest level. C. Records of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, International Series, Box 6, File Folders: “Germany - Volumes I, II, and III” (10 folders). These folders contain memoranda of conversations between the President and Ludwig Erhard, and with Secretary Dulles as well as correspondence, messages and memoranda on U.S. forces in Germany, military equipment, Konrad Adenauer, Berlin, and other issues and personalities. D. Papers of John Foster Dulles, Subject Series, Box 8, File Folders: “Germany 1953 1954 (1)(2).” These folders contain correspondence and memoranda of Secretary Dulles’ conversations with Konrad Adenauer, James Conant, and others regarding the European Defense Community, and European affairs during these first two years of the Eisenhower Administration. E. United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of Germany and Austria. The Foreign Relations series constitutes the official published documentary record of United States foreign policy. The volumes on Germany and Austria cover the major issues involving these countries during the specified time period including German unification, establishment of contractual relations, the Berlin Conference of 1954, exchanges of notes with the USSR, status of the Saar, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and relations with Austria. These volumes can be used to supplement several of the student projects and can be profitably used by students wishing to delve more deeply into the history of the period. Suggested reading: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, One Germany or Two, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1970. Oral History 70, Eleanor Lansing Dulles (Columbia University Oral History, 1962- 67). Consists of 23 interviews covering most aspects of Ms. Dulles’ career, much of which was associated with Germany and Austria. Interviews #13-16 may be especially pertinent for U.S.-German relations in the 1950s with considerable discussion of Berlin. 3. U.S. OPTIONS TO COUNTER AN ATTACK AGAINST WEST BERLIN A. Records of White House Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, NSC Series, Policy Papers Subseries, Box 8, File Folder; “NSC 173 United States Policy and Courses of Action to Counter Possible Soviet or Satellite Action Against Berlin,” dated December 1, 1953. This National Security Council policy paper, though heavily sanitized in places, provides the student with insight into the various contingency options available to the U.S. in the event of blockade or attack against West Berlin. B. Records of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, International Series, Box 6, File Folders: “Berlin Vol. I and III” (6 folders). While much of the documentation in these folders pertain to diplomatic aspects of the Berlin Crises (see Project #4), the folders contain considerable information on military concerns such as status of Berlin stockpile, a State Department paper on legal aspects of contingency planning, and President Eisenhower’s meetings with congressional leaders to brief them on military and diplomatic options available to the United States. C. Papers of Lauris Norstad, Box 86, File Folders: “Berlin--Live Oak 1958-60” (1)-(4) “Berlin--Live Oak 1961 thru 30 Aug” (1)-(4) “Berlin--Live Oak 1961 1 Sep - Dec (1)-(5) “Berlin--Live Oak 1962” (1)-(3) “Watson Berlin” (1)-(4) Box 113 (Berlin Wall 1961) Many documents in these folders are still security classified, but a sufficient number have been declassified in full or in part to enable students to sense the urgency of the Berlin Crisis and to study military activity during the crisis years. Much of the documentation pertains to the Kennedy Administration period and includes some information on the Berlin Wall. D. White House Office, National Security Council Staff: Papers, Executive Secretary’s Subject File Series, Box 7, File Folder: “Berlin (3).” This folder contains a Special National Intelligence Estimate dated March 17, 1959 on Berlin. This report gives the United States intelligence community’s view of the situation in Berlin and its assessment of Soviet intentions. (7 pages in length). Suggested Reading: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Berlin: The Wall Is Not Forever, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1967. 4. BERLIN IN GREAT POWER DIPLOMACY A. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Papers as President (Ann Whitman File), International Series, Box 11, File Folders: “Paris Summit Meeting May 1960 (1)-(4),” and Boxes 39-40, “Paris Meetings May 1960.” These folders contain correspondence, memoranda, messages, memoranda of conversations, statements, and press releases which document the ill-fated Paris Summit meeting. Students can examine this material for references to Berlin as a major issue at the conference and can compare and contrast United States positions with those taken by the Soviet Union and by the United Kingdom and France. This provides a glimpse at diplomacy conducted by the heads of the great powers. B. Records of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, International Trips and Meetings Series, Box 11, File Folders: “May 1960 Summit (1)-(5)” “U.S.-USSR Business and Background - Summit (1)-(3)” These folders contain briefing papers, memoranda, agendas, itineraries, memoranda of conversations, messages, and statements reflecting positions taken by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union at the Paris Summit, with numerous references to Berlin and to Germany. Suggested Reading: Michael R. Beschloss, Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. This is a thoroughly researched and highly readable account of the Paris Summit meeting in the context of the U-2 Incident. It contains a good discussion of Khrushchev’s ultimatum on Berlin. 5. GERMANY AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) A. Records of the White House Office, Office of the Staff Secretary, International Trips and Meetings Series, Boxes 3-5 These boxes contain 46 file folders on NATO 1954-60 and NATO Heads of Government meeting in Paris in 1957. This is a key file of documentation on the Eisenhower Administration’s NATO policies. It contains a wide variety of documentation including correspondence, memoranda,