Example sentences of "the [noun] german [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |
| 32 | Files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would , for the time being , remain in East Germany ( and not go to the West German state archive in Koblenz ) . |
| 33 | Despite an agreement reached in late August that files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would remain in East Germany after unification [ see p. 37661 ] , the question in particular of MPs ' and ministers ' alleged Stasi involvement remained a major issue . |
| 34 | His resignation followed persistent allegations that he had been an informer for the " Stasi " ( the East German state security police ) during 1981-88 . |
| 35 | The arrest in October 1990 of Klaus Kuron , a senior West German intelligence officer accused of working for the East German State Security Service ( Stasi ) [ see p. 37828 ] , resulted in the arrests of many others accused of spying [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 36 | Helmut Voigt , a former officer of the East German state security police ( Stasi ) , was sentenced in Athens on Sept. 10 to 10 months ' imprisonment for entering the country on a false passport . |
| 37 | The East German government 's decision to let the refugees leave across their own country came as a surprise to many , including some West German diplomats . |
| 38 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 39 | Pravda , the official Soviet newspaper , has positioned itself unambiguously on the side of the East German government 's authority . |
| 40 | There must be oodles of territory in Saxony and Thuringia that used to be owned by the East German government . |
| 41 | What now seems necessary is , what Brecht said the East German government wanted , to dissolve the population and elect a new one . |
| 42 | In the 1950s Cremer was commissioned by the East German government to create a sculptural memorial to the victims of the Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps . |
| 43 | The East German government was suspicious of Western intentions and two meetings between Brandt and the East German premier , Willi Stolph , in 1970 — though dramatic events in themselves — failed to make much progress . |
| 44 | After the visit the East German government spokesperson declared that " unity must not and can not be a simple annexation " . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , the West German coalition decided on April 23 to offer the East German government a 1:1 conversion rate for savings up to 4,000 Marks and for wages and pensions ( which latter would also be raised , from less than 50 per cent of wages to the West German level of 70 per cent ) . |
| 46 | These proposals were initially welcomed by both Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and his Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( although they were not so favourably received by the East German government ) , but on May 8 Kohl rejected them as " negotiation poker " . |
| 47 | The East German government on June 27 announced that it favoured Dec. 16 . |
| 48 | The East German government estimated on June 17 that the country 's total industrial funding requirement would be between DM5,000 million and DM6,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million-3,577 million ) per month after unification , and that up to one-third of all East German companies would be totally dependent on foreign credits . |
| 49 | The sale of state-owned industries had to be managed so that EC competition safeguards were not breached , and the East German government agreed in July to abide by EC competition regulations even prior to unification . |
| 50 | It also raised doubts concerning the ability of the East German government to ensure the passage of a state treaty on the terms for unification , since without the support of SPD votes the requisite two-thirds majority was unlikely to be obtained in the Volkskammer . |
| 51 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 52 | This 900-page treaty was signed by Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble for the West German government and by the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Prime Minister Günther Krause for the East German government at a ceremony on Aug. 31 in East Berlin . |
| 53 | In early January 1990 the West German magazine Der Spiegel claimed that the East German government had since the mid-1970s trained members of the West German Communist Party ( DKP ) to carry out destabilizing terrorist attacks in West Germany . |
| 54 | On Jan. 27 , 1990 , the East German government announced its readiness to pay reparations to victims of Nazi war crimes . |
| 55 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |
| 56 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 57 | A recently introduced system to be applied to factories functioning in related areas , similar to the East German kombinat , reduced bureaucracy in enterprise management and allowed more autonomy in decision making . |
| 58 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |
| 59 | As though he had always known the Wall should disappear , the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevarnadze , described as ‘ wise and sensible ’ the East German decision to open it up . |
| 60 | In East Berlin Havel held talks with Manfred Gerlach , acting Chairman of the East German Council of State ( head of state ) . |