IMO the key document available from the negotiations on the...

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    IMO the key document available from the negotiations on the unification of Germany and whether
    the Unified Germany would be Neutral or a member of NATO was the letter from baker to Kohl
    on the topic of Germany's NATO membership.

    The two options then were:
    (a) A united Germany as a neutral country
    (b) A united Germany as a NATO member AND that NATO would not move " an inch more eastward"

    Have a read of the entire letter because there is a vast difference between what was documented then
    and an 84 year old's recollection of it some 24 years later, IMO.

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16119-document-08-letter-james-baker-helmut-kohl

    This is why its a contentious issue today, IMO.


 
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