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P~G~ 01 BONN  16032  ~IAL 261830Z 163 DECLASSIFIED E.O. 13292, Sec. 3.4 B~NARA, Date///d---0/,  
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P R 261707Z AUG 68 
FM AMEMBASSY BONN 

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TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9680 
INFO AMEMBASSY LONDON 
AMEMBASSY PARIS 
USMISSION USUN 
AMEMBASSY PRAGUE uNN 

C 0 ~IAL BONN 16032 
S~B~ECTa GDR PARTIC~PATION IN CZECH~SLOVAKIAN INV~SION 
l• THE FOREIGN OFFICE TOLD THE EMBASSY THAT THEY H~VE GIVEN THOUGHT TO THE QUESTION OF THE COMPATIBILITY OF EAST' GERMAN FORCES PARTICIPATING IN THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF CZECHo· SLOVAKIA WITH THE POTSDAM AGREEMENT• PART III, PAR~. 3 OF THF 
AGREEMENT PROVIDES THAT "GERMAN MILITARISM ANO NAZISM WILL BE 
EXTtRPATEO AND THE ALLIES WIL~ TAKE IN AGREEMENT TOGETHER, NOW AND .. IN THE FUTURE 1 THE OTHER MEASURES NECESSARY TQ1 ASSURE THAT GERMANY NEVER AGAIN-WILL THREATEN H~R NEIGHBORS O~i TME PEACE OF 
THE WORLDo" 
2• FON MINISTER BRANDT TO WHOM THIS ARGUMENT WAS PRESENTED THOUGHT IT A GOOD ONE, STA!E SECR~TARY oucKWITZ-I~STRUCTED TH~ FONOFF TO BRING IT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE U•S• FOR POSSIBLE USE IN U•S• 01scuss10NS· 
3 • !HE FONOFF EMPHASIZED THAT THE FRG COUlitD NOT R~IT NQT' I TSE~E USE THIS ARGUMENT AS IN ITS VIEW TME POTSoAM AGREEMENT ONLV eINOS THE PARTIES TO IT1 ON THE OTHER HAND, EAST GERMANY HA ALWAY MAINTAINED T~AT IT HAS CARRIED OUT THE ~OTSOAM AGREEMEN~ BECAUSE IT ~S DIRECTbY BINDING UPON GERMAANY, AT ANY RATE• TH OTHER SIGNATORIES COULD MOLD THE SOVIET UNION ACCOUNTAB~E F R ALSO 



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PAG~ 02 BONN 16032 26J830Z 
VIO~ATING THE POTSDAM AGREEMENT BY SENDING EAST-GgRM~N TROOPS INTO A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY WHIC8 ONCE ei~ORE HAD BEEN INVADED BY G~RHAN TROOPS• ~ooGE