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June 21, 1953	Diary Entry from US HICOG James B. Conant on the Effects of East Zone Troubles on Russian Policy Conant briefly speculates over possible complications with Russian policy as a result of the East German Uprising.
July 2, 1953	Protocol #1 of the Meeting of the Vyshinskii Commission for Drafting a Proposal to the USSR Council of Ministers Pertaining to the GDR This contains resolutions regarding proposals for Soviet aid and planned measures in the GDR for economic policy and development.
July 9, 1953	Memorandum from Georgi Pushkin to Andrei Vyshinskii Regarding Proposals Made by Semyonov, Sokolovskii, and Yudin This memorandum outlines proposals for measures that should be taken in order to implement a new political course in the GDR, with a focus on economic development and increased standard of living.
July 1, 1953	Memorandum of Informal Psychological Strategy Board Meeting The United States Psychological Strategy Board discusses implementation of previously-discussed plan, NSC 158, as well as other proposals for responding to the East German riots.
November 4, 1980	Letter from Leonid Brezhnev to Erich Honecker Leonid Brezhnev writes to East German leader Erich Honecker, regarding the Polish Crisis. Brezhnev suggests that the Soviet Union reduce oil shipments to the GDR, in order to alleviate Poland's economic crisis.
June 12, 1956	Protocol No. 27/56 of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee on 12 June 1956 between 0900 and 1000 hours in the Central House of Unity GDR decides what aid it will give the North Korea and which credits and technical devices they will offer until 1960.
July 18, 1967	Memorandum on a Meeting with a Delegation from the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on 3 July 1967 A memorandum of conversation between Ri Yeong-ho and Hermann Matern in which two discuss bilateral relations, East Germany's domestic and foreign policy, North Korea's foreign policy, incidents in the Demilitarized Zone, and North Korea's military policy.
December 13, 1977	Report on the Official Friendship Visit to the DPRK by the Party and State Delegation of the GDR, led by Comrade Erich Honecker Report on the official visit to the DPRK of a GDR delegation led by Erich Honecker. Included are the summary of the visit and the text of the Agreement on Developing Economic and Scientific/Technical Cooperation.
November 30, 1960	Record of Meeting of Comrade N.S. Khrushchev with Comrade W. Ulbricht Ulbricht explains the economic situation in the GDR and East Berlin in the context of the Berlin Crisis, and proposals for East German economic development. Ulbricht and Khrushchev discuss the possibility of political and economic peace negotiations with the FDR and the three Western powers.
March 18, 1953	Draft Instructions for General Vasilii Chuikov and Vladimir Semyonov regarding GDR Control of Borders Draft instructions of the Soviet leadership to its representatives in East Germany, advising that the SED requests for East German control of the border with West Germany are "unacceptable and grossly simplistic."