Four-Powers Conference in Berlin

On 25 January 1954 foreign ministers from the Four Powers meet in Berlin. The two primary topics on the agenda include how to ease the increasing tensions between East and West and how reunification of Germany might be possible. Negotiations drag on for weeks with no progress of any kind on the German question. On 18 February the foreign ministers can at least agree on the need to convene another conference in Geneva prearranged to deal with the Southeast Asian sources of conflict (Korea and Indo-China).

© arge Special GDR stamp on occasion of the Four Powers Conference in Berlin