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• 28 April 1965

  The Bundestag passes a new "Law on the Entry and Abode of Foreigners in the Federal Region"
  Prior to the adoption of the law, the applications of refugees were still decided on according to laws passed by the Nazis. During the process of denazification, these were only expurgated of discriminatory terms.
• 28 May 1965

  Hessian Education Minister Ernst Schütte opens the exhibition Exile Literature 1933-1945
  In the following years the exhibition is shown at over 20 locations in Germany and abroad. The exhibition and the catalogue generates sustained interest in investigating the period of German exile from 1933 to 1945.
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  Talks between the negotiators of Tunisia and Germany on the Recruitment Agreement in Bonn (1965)

  Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F020825-0001, photographer: Patzek, Renate

  7 October 1965

  West Germany and Tunisia sign a recruitment agreement.
  The treaty contains special stipulations: Tunisian workers are permitted to stay for a maximum of two years and only unmarried persons are recruited.
• 10 March 1966

  Publication of Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto is prohibited by Hamburg’s Superior Regional Court.
  The adopted son of Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Gorski, considered the novel slanderous of his adopted father and took legal action to have it banned. However, his first attempt at Hamburg’s Regional Court failed and the book was initially published.
• 31 January 1967

  The Protocol on the Legal Status of Refugees is issued.
  The protocol supplements the Geneva Convention and removes the temporal and spatial restrictions in the Geneva Convention that limited the rights of refugees
• 20 March 1968

  In a case concerning Klaus Mann's novel Mephisto, the Federal Supreme Court rejects a revision by the Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung in favour of a successful injunction action which ceases publication.
  The adopted son of Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Gorski, saw the novel as denigrating his adoptive father and filed a complaint. The court stated that the memory of the deceased must first be faded away to a certain extent before a such a work can be published.
• 12 October 1968

  West Germany and Yugoslavia sign a recruitment agreement for workers.
• 26 June 1969

  The Bundestag revokes the statute of limitations entirely in cases of genocide. Ten years later, in 1979, all forms of murder are excluded from the statute of limitations.
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  Inauguration of the new Federal Chancellor Willy Brand takes office; striding down  the guard battalion of the German Armed Forces

  Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F030285-0013, photographer: Wegmann, Ludwig 

  21 October 1969

  Willy Brandt - a former exile - is elected German Federal Chancellor.
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  German Chancellor Willy Brandt (sitting 2nd from left) during the signing of the Treaty of Moscow (“agreement to renounce the use force and cooperate”) in the Catherine Hall in the Kremlin

  Bundesregierung / Photographer: Engelbert Reineke

  12 August 1970

  The Treaty of Moscow is signed
  This German-Soviet treaty concerning the renunciation of violence and the recognition of the existing borders in Europe is one of a series of treaties, the so-called Eastern Treaties, that are concluded between the Federal Republic of Germany and countries of the East.