Thursday, March 24, 2011

Rob Hans-Dietrich Genscher the pen with which he signed the German reunification

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, one of the most famous former German ministers, returned home last night from 11 March, at 21.30 pm when he found everything upside down. His wife, Barbara, 74, fainted when he discovered the contents of drawers and cupboards and dumped scrambled on the floor. Who in his day direct diplomatic operation that made possible the reunification of Germany called the police, still fearing that the thieves will continue in the home.

The first part police picked up the theft of some jewels of little value and in the basement of the house was found a basket with a set of silverware that the attackers had met and that, for some reason, had decided to leave at the last moment . It appeared, from the first investigation, to thieves looking for one thing, the pen that signed the historic treaty Genscher 'Two Plus Four', which within minutes was thought to be half hidden among the clutter of the house assaulted.

In the end, the pen was the only thing of value was missing. The windows of the stolen property, which is located near Bonn, are equipped with bulletproof glass heavy from the time he was minister, but the thieves made use of levers to open a hole and, once inside, were launched in search of the symbolic object.

The assailants arramplaron, in fact, with all the feathers in the house, indicating that were unclear exactly how or where they were seeking was saved. I recorded everything and took away many pens could find. "They were professionals, they had no information from inside the house, because soon found what they sought.

But they were aware of the enormous value of this pen and it has personal significance for me," acknowledged Genscher, who carefully chose pen and ink with which sign the international treaty that ended a major diplomatic task he considered the great work of his life. One time the Berlin Wall fell, it was necessary to agree not only to the two Germanys, but also to the four occupying powers of the end of the Second World War: U.S., Russia, France and the UK.

Genscher has been told many times how he managed to pay the Russians, the French flatter, persuade the Kohl government to honor the Americans and doubling the strength of Margaret Thatcher, the hardest, based on its advisory work Foreign Affairs. After 10 months of diplomatic lace, Dietrich Genscher went to Moscow to sign the treaty 'Two Plus Four', is now studying in the international trading manuals half the world and, after his signature, carefully put the pen as their greatest personal treasure.

Police have kept secret theft during the past two weeks to prevent the object multiply its value on the black market because of the publicity, but Hans-Dietrich Genscher is now convinced that the track has been permanently lost to Despite several raids in antique markets. The former minister has decided to publish the robbery to call the awareness of potential buyers, who recalled that "it is an object of national historical value" and not being robbed him, but a people.

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