December 21, 1972 (Thursday)
- The Grundlagenvertrag, or Basic Treaty, between the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), was signed in East Berlin. The two nations agreed to "develop normal good-neighbourly relations" and to "reaffirm the inviolability now and in the future of the border existing between them", as well as resolving that "neither of the two States can represent the other".
- Died: Gen. Paul Hausser, 92, "Papa" of the German Waffen SS
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“For I have lost the race I never ran,
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—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)