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The Domestic Front: Facing the ‘Tribunal’

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West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968–1974

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The FRG’s behaviour towards Portugal was not only dictated by international factors, but also crucially by corresponding domestic pressures. Moving from the edges of public discourse to the mainstream, this chapter examines the challenge posed to Bonn by national agents outside the three largest parties in the executive and legislative bodies. It provides a snapshot of the social atmosphere in which Brandt governments made their policy towards the Caetano dictatorship.

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Lopes, R. (2014). The Domestic Front: Facing the ‘Tribunal’. In: West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968–1974. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402080_3

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