From 21 to 23 September 1951, the members of the European Movement met in Hamburg. At the end of this meeting they published a declaration on the relations between Germany and the other western European countries in the framework of a supranational Europe.
On 29 August 1950, the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, sends a memorandum to the Allied High Commission in which he refers to the rearmament of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the resulting lack of security for West Germany.
On 19 September 1950, in New York, Dean Acheson, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman, the Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom and France respectively, decide to simplify the occupation statute in Germany and envisage German participation in a European army.
On 23 November 1951, a confidential North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) document sets out the military capabilities of the Soviet bloc countries if they should attack the NATO countries.
In a secret aide-mémoire sent on 16 November 1950 to the allied high commisioners in Germany, the German chancellor Konrad Adenauer argues for a change in the occupation statute so that the German population might be ready to participate in the defence of Europe.
‘Konrad Greenfingers.' In the 1950s, Ernst Maria Lang, German cartoonist, emphasises the efforts of Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor, to secure the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
On 22 January 1952, the Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) speculates on the country’s rearmament and considers the numerous implications of the establishment of a future German army.
