"Mindful of the bitter experience of two devastating world wars which started from German soil, the German Democratic …"

"A socialist State in the heart of Europe at the boundary between the most powerful alliance systems of our time, the …"

"The all-European Conference of States has no precedent in the changeful history of the European continent. Its conclu…"

"As an inseparable part of the socialist community the German Democratic Republic has had its share in the set of Euro…"

"The States assembled in Helsinki confirm the turn from "cold war" to détente in Europe. It is for the first time on o…"

"Nobody in (unified Germany) has the right . . . to charge me, let alone sentence me, for things I did to fulfill my r…"

"I bear the main political responsibility . . . for the fact that people trying to cross the border without authorizat…"

"Without the wall through Berlin there could have been a nuclear war with thousands or millions of dead."

"It is highly symbolic that the first conference of the European States, the United States of America and Canada is ta…"

"Recognition of the principle of the inviolability of frontiers remains the criterion of whether or not a policy reall…"