Germany–Soviet Union relations

exclave of Russia sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania

meeting of the Allied heads of state near the end of World War II

Baltiysk ( ) is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay. It had a population of

Königsberg (, ) was the historic German name of the city that is now modern-day Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the Old Prussian settlement Twangste by the Teutonic Knights during the Baltic Crusades. It was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who led a campaign against the pagan Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe that was native to the area.

exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950

1990 treaty making Germany fully independent

thumb|250px|Willy Brandt (left) and [[Willi Stoph in Erfurt 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart, an early step in the de-escalation of the Cold War]] Neue Ostpolitik (German for "new eastern policy"), or Ostpolitik () for short, was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) beginning in 1969. Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed "change through rapprochement" in a 1963 speech at the Evangelische Akademie Tutz

administrative division of Nazi Germany in the occupied Baltic countries and parts of Belarus

Ethnic German inhabitants of the Volga region

military occupation 1940–1991

agreement addressing post-war governance in Germany and written by three Allies of World War II: United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union

1941 bilateral treaty

1938 Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier

1961 Cold War incident in divided Berlin

oil pipeline in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

speech delivered by President Ronald Reagan of the USA in West Berlin in June 1987

military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany

international security philosophy that everyone is safer together; that the security of one is the concern of all

USSR space program with the first balloon flight on Venus, in 1985

1942 association football match in Kyiv

Soviet campaign medal to contributors for the victory over Nazi Germany

military decoration of the Soviet Union

1939 Admiral Hipper-class cruiser

German luxury passenger liner

military unit

275px|thumb|A Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany)|Deutsche Reichsbahn official inspects the escape tunnel beneath [[Berlin Wollankstraße station in January 1962.]] 275px|thumb|Movement (1977–1986) Republikflucht (; German for "desertion from the republic", ) was the colloquial term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for illegal emigration to the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), West Berlin, and non-Warsaw Pact countries. The official term was Ungesetzlicher Grenzübertritt ("unlawful border crossing"). Republikflucht applied to both the 3.5 million Germans who migrated l

tactical ballistic missile

ballistic missile family

Treat between the Soviet Union and West Germany

semi-autonomous region in Nazi German-occupied Central Russia

Soviet spy (1899-1941)

soviet secret operation

German politician, diplomat and banker (1872-1924)

1952 communication by Joseph Stalin

1935 Type IIB submarine

Soviet Union aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe

four-masted barque built in 1921

1936 Type IIB submarine

four-masted barque built in 1926

WWII prisoners of war

alleged WWII military plan

internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950

soviet car

Soviet government agency tasked with investigating World War II crimes against the Soviet Union

1935 class of Soviet submarines

thumb|German Lebensraum|colonisation of Eastern European regions as envisaged in a Nazi-era propaganda map published in 1943 '''' (, ; ) is a German term for settlers living on the marches of a realm who were tasked with holding back foreign invaders until the arrival of proper military reinforcements. In turn, they were granted special liberties. Wehrbauern in their settlements, known as Wehrsiedlungen'' (-en being the plural suffix), were mainly used on the eastern fringes of the Holy Roman Empire and later Austria-Hungary to slow attacks by the Ottoman Empire. This historic term was resurre

Soviet double agent (1918–2008)

Soviet-owned cruise ship, built 1966

German philosopher and diplomat (1882-1955)

1947 Soviet bomber

1945 Soviet killing of German civilians

commission that was set up by the Allies during WW2 to make recommendations about postwar political problems in Europe

building in Saint Petersburg, Moscow; formerly housed the Embassy of Germany

monitoring and management committee established by the Soviet Union in order to oversee the leadership of the German Democratic Republic

type of aircraft

Soviet spy (1899–1937)

type of aircraft

covert joint Soviet-German chemical weapons research facility, operational 1926-1933

German international school

group of Wehrmacht orders during the invasion of the Soviet Union