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November 27, 1987

Letter, Heinz Kessler to Comrade Erich Honecker [about the 20th Meeting of the Committee of the Ministers of Defense of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty]

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Defense Minister Keßler highlights the necessity to defend the Warsaw Pact's territory at the borderline between East and West Germany. Soviet Defense Minister Jasov looks into the military consequences of the Warsaw Pact's new defense military doctrine. 


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DVW-1-115512, bl. 231-285. Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau. Contributed by Stephan Kieninger and translated by Bernd Schaefer.

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