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1406:East Berlin
1398:West Berlin
1391:(1949–1990)
1364:Mecklenburg
1359:Brandenburg
1344:Soviet Zone
1309:French Zone
988:. 1. Teil:
927: [
891:Hof Central
857:third class
796: [
673: [
634:West Berlin
501:Wesermarsch
489:Bremerhaven
465:WĂĽrttemberg
454:Upper Hesse
450:Starkenburg
446:Rhine river
232:Preceded by
210:23 May 1949
1445:Categories
1074:2015-01-07
1050:2015-01-07
937:References
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585:, who was
530:Under the
493:WesermĂĽnde
404:Palatinate
383:, in 1949.
375:, between
373:Mödlareuth
354:Occupation
318:, and the
196:8 May 1945
104:Government
1379:Thuringia
1164:catalogue
990:1946–1966
982:60 Jahre
916:Wiesbaden
850:Transport
759:Basic Law
699:in 1952.
681:Länderrat
548:Eichsfeld
497:Osterholz
475:(now the
431:Unterlahn
415:Kurhessen
377:Thuringia
359:Geography
98:Frankfurt
60:1945–1949
984:Die Zeit
898:Archives
882:through
867:through
695:to form
467:and the
411:Prussian
402:and the
369:Tannbach
178:Cold War
52:part of
50:American
1425:Trizone
1289:Hamburg
1284:Hanover
1223:Bavaria
1160:in the
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691:in the
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646:federal
396:Ostheim
392:Bavaria
381:Bavaria
316:US-Zone
293:Germany
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1422:Bizone
1409:(USSR)
1389:Berlin
1369:Saxony
1228:Bremen
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664:, and
658:Bremen
650:states
524:Berlin
485:Bremen
433:, and
419:Nassau
400:Lindau
306:German
126:
1324:Baden
1233:Hesse
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765:Media
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536:Werra
172:Post-
1430:Rape
1127:ISBN
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844:RIAS
804:NWDR
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