The political and legal process, completed on 3 October 1990, by which the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Free elections in East Germany in March 1990 produced a government committed to rapid unification, and the Two Plus Four Treaty, negotiated among the two German states and the four World War Two Allied powers, settled the external and security questions reunification raised. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had proposed a ten point unification plan the previous winter, became the first chancellor of the reunified country.
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LocationGermany, formalized with the accession of the five East German Lander to the Federal Republic of Germany, effective in Berlin on October 3, 1990. 1 Connections
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The wall's opening on 9 November 1989 removed the practical and symbolic barrier to reunification, completed less than a year later.
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German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990.
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