At the end of April 1995, the Chancellor of the RWTH receives the self-disclosure of the former Rector Hans Schwerte. He admits to having lived under a false name since May 1945 and thus to having concealed his past in the Nazi regime as SS-Hauptsturmführer and head...
On this day 73 years ago, in 1949, Konrad Adenauer was elected the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the course of rebuilding Germany’s democratic structures, he participated in drafting the Basic Law, among other things, and strengthened...
The “Treaty on the Final Settlement Concerning Germany”, in short 2+4 Treaty, was concluded on September 12, 1990 in Moscow between the two German states and the victorious powers of the Second World War (USA, Soviet Union, France, Great Britain). In this...