Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Bonn, West Germany: General Correspondence

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Reference: FO 1042
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Bonn, West Germany: General Correspondence
Description:

This series contains general correspondence from the British Embassy in Bonn, West Germany.

The files cover a wide range of subjects, including the disposal of Nazi property, war criminals and the management of Spandau Prison, Communist infiltration, the Munich air disaster of 1958, the status of Berlin (including the Four Power talks on Germany and Berlin in 1971), Anglo-German agreements, and NATO.

Date: 1952-1974
Related material:

For earlier records of the High Commissioner, see FO 1008

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, West Germany, 1968-1990

Foreign Office, Embassy, West Germany, 1955-1968

Physical description: 451 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the achievement of full independence by West Germany in 1955, the office of UK High Commissioner was abolished, and normal diplomatic relations resumed. The British embassy was based in Bonn until after October 1990, when East and West Germany were re-unified and the embassy moved to Berlin. An embassy office in Bonn was maintained after this to liaise with those organs of the unified German state which remained in Bonn.

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