5 May 1985Visit to BitburgHelmut Kohl
Reagan visits the Bitburg Nazi cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Khol
Historical records for Germany in 1985, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Reagan visits the Bitburg Nazi cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Khol
Mengele becomes the worlds most sought-after fugitive with a bounty of $4 million
West Germany, Israel & the USA announce a combined effort to track down Josef Mengele. Mengele becomes the worlds most sought-after fugitive with a bounty of $4 million
Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
Mengeles body is exhumed from a grave in Sao Paolo
Kohl represents West Germany in the member-state settlement admitting Spain and Portugal.
Signs the Schengen Agreement for West Germany, committing the participating governments to gradually abolish internal border controls.
Genscher backs Germany's participation in the founding five-state agreement for gradually reducing checks at common borders. German policy links open internal borders with stronger external controls.
Leads West Germany when the five founding states sign the Schengen Agreement on the gradual removal of controls at their common borders.
In Germany, Zimmermann starts adapting border and policing arrangements to the commitments created at Schengen. Bonn also backs intensive police cooperation between participating states.
Engelhard helps review legal consequences of the agreement's programme for progressively freer cross-border movement. Germany supports freer travel alongside common security and visa rules.
Investigators believe they have discoverred Mengeles body
Represents Germany as the Milan European Council considers institutional reform and completion of the internal market.
Supports the Milan decision to convene an intergovernmental conference on treaty reform and the internal market.
Death of Heinrich Boll
Directs Manner, an international breakthrough for West German comedy.
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
Directs the television film Death of a Salesman.
Death of Ernst Zimmerman, assassinated
Realizes a working low-energy electron microscope for real-time imaging of surface structure and processes.
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
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