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"The Kuratorium Unteilbares Deutschland (or KUD) was a West German organization that campaigned for reunification of Germany during the existence of the East German socialist state. This collection of photographs documents the activities of the KUD and features images of the construction of the Berlin Wall and the response of West German citizens, including campaigns, memorials, and exhibitions; it nicely compliments our East German Poster collection. The work of the KUD focused particularly on Berlin because the organization wanted the West German capital to move from Bonn to Berlin in order to more directly confront the Soviet sphere of influence. The KUD’s influence diminished with the advent of Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik in which the two-state status quo was accepted as a fact and basis for a policy of détente in the late 1960s. In 1991 the KUD ceased to exist."LinkMore Information about the collection