The Role of the Soviet Union in German Unification

Rafael Biermann has transferred all the primary sources from his PhD dissertation on the Soviet role in German unification to the Archive of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. This includes numerous interviews with high-ranking politicians of the time in Moscow, Washington D.C., Berlin, and other places. Overall, there are 18 file folders on German unification. The contract with the Archive foresees that these sources will be made available to the public. Rafael Biermann has worked for the German Chancellor during German unification and for the Federal Ministry of Defense. His book in German is now freely available for download:

Zwischen Kreml und Kanzleramt. Wie Moskau mit der deutschen Einigung rang, 1998pdf, 178 mb · de