People and Politics # Relations Between East and West - from Building the Wall to Reunification # 06.11.2009

We look at two men who played crucial roles in the relations between the two Germanys. Egon Bahr was a close confidante of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and the architect of the latter's groundbreaking policy, Ostpolitik, or rapprochement with the East. Lothar de Maiziere was a lawyer who was involved in the winding down of the communist system and ended up as the last leader of East Germany.