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3143:"... the German Democratic Republic is in the international-law sense a State and as such a subject of international law. This finding is independent of recognition in international law of the German Democratic Republic by the Federal Republic of Germany. Such recognition has not only never been formally pronounced by the Federal Republic of Germany but on the contrary repeatedly explicitly rejected. If the conduct of the Federal Republic of Germany towards the German Democratic Republic is assessed in the light of its détente policy, in particular the conclusion of the Treaty as de facto recognition, then it can only be understood as de facto recognition of a special kind. The special feature of this Treaty is that while it is a bilateral Treaty between two States, to which the rules of international law apply and which like any other international treaty possesses validity, it is between two States that are parts of a still existing, albeit incapable of action as not being reorganized, comprehensive State of the Whole of Germany with a single body politic." 1938: 2725: 3032: 2559:, a leading FDP official, became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Schmidt, a strong supporter of the European Community (EC) and the Atlantic alliance, emphasized his commitment to "the political unification of Europe in partnership with the USA". Mounting external problems forced Schmidt to concentrate on foreign policy and limited the domestic reforms that he could carry out. The USSR upgraded its intermediate-range missiles, which Schmidt complained was an unacceptable threat to the balance of nuclear power, because it increased the likelihood of political coercion and required a western response. NATO respond in the form of its twin-track policy. The domestic reverberations were serious inside the SPD, and undermined its coalition with the FDP. One of his major successes, in collaboration with French President 3249: 1198:. They formally joined the federal republic on 3 October 1990, raising the total number of states from ten to sixteen, and ending the division of Germany. The reunited Germany is the direct continuation of the state previously informally called West Germany and not a new state, as the process was essentially a voluntary act of accession: the Federal Republic of Germany was enlarged to include the additional six states of the German Democratic Republic. The expanded Federal Republic retained West Germany's political culture and continued its existing memberships in international organisations, as well as its Western foreign policy alignment and affiliation to Western alliances such as the United Nations, NATO, 2814: 2140: 204: 244: 871: 5166: 899: 5135: 5048:
informally called "West German" before 1991. The only differences were a larger membership and a different name used by some foreigners. These organisations and teams in turn mostly continued the traditions of those that represented Germany before the Second World War, and even the First World War, thus providing a century-old continuity despite political changes. On the other hand, the separate East German teams and organisations were founded in the 1950s; they were an episode lasting less than four decades, yet quite successful in that time.
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Treaty. Following wartime commitments by the Allies to the governments-in-exile of Czechoslovakia and Poland, the Potsdam Protocols also agreed to the 'orderly and humane' transfer to Germany as a whole of the ethnic German populations in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Eight million German expellees and refugees eventually settled in West Germany. Between 1946 and 1949, three of the occupation zones began to merge. First, the British and American zones were combined into the quasi-state of
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the act of reunification itself (with its many specific terms and conditions; including fundamental amendments to the West German Basic Law) was achieved constitutionally by the subsequent Unification Treaty of 31 August 1990; that is through a binding agreement between the former GDR and the Federal Republic now recognising each another as separate sovereign states in international law. This treaty was then voted into effect on 20 September 1990 by both the Volkskammer and the
224: 69: 1887: 5063: 1822: 1282:, had issued the "Directives for the Appellation of Germany", recommending avoiding the initialism BRD. On 31 May 1974, the heads of West German federal and state governments recommended always using the full name in official publications. From then on, West German sources avoided the abbreviated form, with the exception of left-leaning organizations which embraced it. In November 1979, the federal government informed the 885: 7120: 1836: 2643:. They formally joined the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990, raising the number of states from 10 to 16, ending the division of Germany. The expanded Federal Republic retained West Germany's political culture and continued its existing memberships in international organisations, as well as its Western foreign policy alignment and affiliation to Western alliances like NATO and the European Union. 2425: 5955: 2631:. Following democratic elections, East Germany declared its accession to the Federal Republic subject to the terms of the Unification Treaty between the two states; and then both West Germany and East Germany radically amended their respective constitutions in accordance with that Treaty's provisions. East Germany then dissolved itself, and its five post-war states ( 2455:
1990s attacks were still being committed under the name "RAF". The last action took place in 1993 and the group announced it was giving up its activities in 1998. Evidence that the groups had been infiltrated by German Intelligence undercover agents has since emerged, partly through the insistence of the son of one of their prominent victims, the State Counsel
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applied to Berlin as a whole despite the Soviets declaring the end of occupation of East Berlin unilaterally many decades before). The Two-plus-Four Agreement also saw the two parts of Germany confirm their post-war external boundaries as final and irreversible (including the 1945 transfer of former German lands east of the
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two department stores in Frankfurt; they were brought to trial and made very clear to the court that they regarded their action as a legitimate act in what they described as the "struggle against imperialism". The student movement began to split into different factions, ranging from the unattached liberals to the
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and outside of 'Germany as a whole' were officially separated from German sovereignty in August 1945 and transferred from Soviet military occupation to Polish and Soviet (in the case of the territory of Kaliningrad) civil administration, their Polish and Soviet status to be confirmed at a final Peace
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In January 1987 the Kohl–Genscher government was returned to office, but the FDP and the Greens gained at the expense of the larger parties. The Social Democrats concluded that not only were the Greens unlikely to form a coalition, but also that such a coalition would be far from a majority. Neither
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Anger over the treatment of demonstrators following the death of Benno Ohnesorg and the attack on Rudi Dutschke, coupled with growing frustration over the lack of success in achieving their aims led to growing militance among students and their supporters. In May 1968, three young people set fire to
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The calling in question of the actions and policies of government led to a new climate of debate. The issues of emancipation, colonialism, environmentalism and grass roots democracy were discussed at all levels of society. In 1979 the environmental party, the Greens, reached the 5% limit required to
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was shot in the head and killed by a plainclothes policeman. (It has now been established that the policeman, Kurras, was a paid spy of the East German security forces.) Protest demonstrations continued, and calls for more active opposition by some groups of students were made, which was declared by
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that it was partly fiction and, if interpreted as wishful thinking, it was a promise that went unfulfilled until 1990. The Allies maintained their rights and responsibilities regarding Berlin and Germany as a whole, particularly the responsibility for future reunification and a future peace treaty".
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in his illegal seizure of dictatorial powers. Consequently, following the death of Hitler in 1945 and the subsequent capitulation of the German Armed Forces, the national political, judicial, administrative, and constitutional instruments of both Nazi Germany and the Weimar Republic were understood
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remained in East Germany. Four days after obtaining the "authority of a sovereign state" in 1955, West Germany joined NATO. The UK and the USA retained an especially strong presence in West Germany, acting as a deterrent in case of a Soviet invasion. In 1976 West Germany became one of the founding
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Eastern Europe, which affected up to 16.5 million Germans. This helped Germany to more than double the value of its exports during the war. Apart from these factors, hard work and long hours at full capacity among the population and in the late 1950s and 1960s extra labour supplied by thousands of
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After the peaceful revolution of 1989 in East Germany, the Volkskammer of the GDR on 23 August 1990 declared the accession of East Germany to the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law and thus initiated the process of reunification, to come into effect on 3 October 1990. Nevertheless,
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who also criticised the forms of capitalism that were to be seen in West Berlin. Just before Easter 1968, a young man tried to kill Dutschke as he bicycled to the student union, seriously injuring him. All over West Germany, thousands demonstrated against the Springer newspapers which were seen as
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states "In the October 23, 1954, Paris Agreements, Adenauer pushed through the following laconic wording: 'The Federal Republic shall accordingly have the full authority of a sovereign state over its internal and external affairs.' If this was intended as a statement of fact, it must be conceded
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which began by making bank raids to finance their activities and eventually went underground having killed a number of policemen, several bystanders and eventually two prominent West Germans, whom they had taken captive in order to force the release of prisoners sympathetic to their ideas. In the
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retained occupation powers in Berlin and certain responsibilities for Germany as a whole. Under the new arrangements, the Allies stationed troops within West Germany for NATO defense, pursuant to stationing and status-of-forces agreements. With the exception of 55,000 French troops, Allied forces
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was definitively ended and the Four Allied powers relinquished their joint residual sovereign authority for Germany as a whole including the area of West Berlin which had officially remained under Allied occupation for the purposes of international and GDR law (a status that the Western countries
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As in 1957, when the Saarland acceded, East German sport organisations ceased to exist in late 1990 as their subdivisions and their members joined their Western counterparts. Thus, the present German organisations and teams in football, Olympics and elsewhere are identical to those that had been
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As demand for consumer goods increased after World War II, the resulting shortage helped overcome lingering resistance to the purchase of German products. At the time Germany had a large pool of skilled and cheap labour, partly as a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and
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were negotiated. They agreed that the boundaries of Germany as at 31 December 1937 would be chosen as demarcating German national territory from German-occupied territory; all German annexations after 1937 were automatically null. Subsequently, and into the 1970s, the West German state was to
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in which women demonstrated for equal rights. Until 1977, a married woman had to have the permission of her husband if she wanted to take on a job or open a bank account. Further reforms in 1979 to parental rights law gave equal legal rights to the mother and the father, abolishing the legal
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In January 1987 the Kohl–Genscher government was returned to office, but the FDP and the Greens gained at the expense of the larger parties. Kohl's CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, slipped from 48.8% of the vote in 1983 to 44.3%. The SPD fell to 37%; long-time SPD Chairman Brandt
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Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt (SPD) then formed a government, continuing the SPD–FDP coalition. He served as Chancellor from 1974 to 1982. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a leading FDP official, was Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister in the same years. Schmidt, a strong supporter of the
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as entirely defunct, such that a new West Germany could be established in a condition of constitutional nullity. Nevertheless, the new West Germany asserted its fundamental continuity with the 'overall' German state that was held to have embodied the unified German people since the
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on the territory of East Germany; and on the other, the agreed amendments to the Basic Law of the Federal Republic. Amongst these amendments was the repeal of the very Article 23 in respect of which the GDR had nominally declared its postdated accession to the Federal Republic.
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legitimate representative of a dormant "Germany as whole". The two Germanies relinquished any claim to represent the other internationally, which they acknowledged as necessarily implying a mutual recognition of each other as both capable of representing their own populations
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as a sovereign state under international law; while at the same time acknowledging that, within the structures of international law, the GDR was an independent sovereign state. By distinction, West Germany then viewed itself as being within its own boundaries, not only the
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However, the 1977 reform of marriage and family law by Social Democrats and Liberals formally gave women the right to take up employment without their spouses' permission. This marked the legal end of the 'housewife marriage' and a transition to the ideal of 'marriage in
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2–1 in the final. With the process of unification in full swing in the summer of 1990, the Germans won a third World Cup, with players that had been capped for East Germany not yet permitted to contribute. European championships have been won too, in 1972 and 1980.
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Religious affiliation in West Germany decreased from the 1960s onward. Religious affiliation declined faster among Protestants than among Catholics, causing the Roman Catholic Church to overtake the EKD as the largest denomination in the country during the 1970s.
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had been widely publicised in Germany but until a new generation of teachers, educated with the findings of historical studies, could begin to reveal the truth about the war and the crimes committed in the name of the German people, one courageous attorney,
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was 73 years old when he became chancellor in 1949, and for this reason he was initially reckoned as a caretaker. However, he ruled for 14 years. The grand statesman of German postwar politics had to be dragged—almost literally—out of office in 1963.
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In the wakes of these demonstrations, in which the question of America's role in Vietnam began to play a bigger role, came a desire among the students to find out more about the role of the parent-generation in the Nazi era. The proceedings of the
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The official position of West Germany concerning East Germany at the outset was that the West German government was the only democratically elected, and therefore the only legitimate, representative of the German people. According to the
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In the early 1960s, the rate of economic growth slowed down significantly. In 1962 growth rate was 4.7% and the following year, 2.0%. After a brief recovery, the growth rate slowed again into a recession, with no growth in 1967.
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spent some time in jail before the public outcry over the breaking of laws on freedom of the press became too loud to be ignored. The FDP members of Adenauer's cabinet resigned from the government, demanding the resignation of
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refused to ratify it (August 1954), the treaty died. The French Gaullists and communists had killed the French government's proposal. Then other means had to be found to allow West German rearmament. In response, at the
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country code of West Germany was DEU, which has remained the country code of reunified Germany. The now deleted codes for East Germany, on the other hand, were DD in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and DDR in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.
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authority of the father. Parallel to this, a gay movement began to grow in the larger cities, especially in West Berlin, where homosexuality had been widely accepted during the twenties in the Weimar Republic.
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of 1948–49), the two German states that had originated in the Western Allied and the Soviet Zones respectively became known internationally as West Germany and East Germany. Commonly known in English as
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and supporters of direct action in every form—the anarchists. Several groups set as their objective the aim of radicalising the industrial workers and taking an example from activities in Italy of the
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In many aspects, German culture continued in spite of the dictatorship and wartime. Old and new forms coexisted next to each other, and the American influence, already strong in the 1920s, grew.
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is considered an observer of the young Federal Republic from the 1950s to the 1970s, and caused some political controversies because of his increasingly critical view on society. The
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in 1963. Daily newspaper reports and visits by school classes to the proceedings revealed to the German public the nature of the concentration camp system and it became evident that
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However, at that time, the role of Berlin had not yet been decided upon. Only after a fierce debate, considered by many as one of the most memorable sessions of parliament, the
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was of vastly greater dimensions than the German population had believed. (The term "Holocaust" for the systematic mass-murder of Jews first came into use in 1979, when a 1978
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Cooke, Lynn Prince; Gash, Vanessa (2007), "Panacea or Pitfall? Women's Part-time Employment and Marital Stability in West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States",
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state organisation of parts of Germany outside the Federal Republic. The Federal Republic continued to maintain that it could not within its own structures recognise the GDR
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maintain that these 1937 boundaries continued to be 'valid in international law', although the Allies had already agreed amongst themselves that the territories east of the
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Frank Fischer, "Von Der 'Regierung Der Inneren Reformen' zum 'Krisenmanagement': Das Verhältnis Zwischen Innen- und Aussenpolitik in der Sozial-Liberalen Ära 1969–1982".
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published an analysis of the West German military defence. The conclusion was that there were several weaknesses in the system. Ten days after publication, the offices of
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must be transferred to Poland and the Soviet Union in any peace agreement. The conference agreed that post-war Germany, minus these transfers, would be divided into
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The goals of SPD and FDP however drifted apart in the late 1970s and early 1980s. On 1 October 1982 the FDP joined forces with the CDU/CSU to elect CDU Chairman
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state election, and with the foundation of the national party in 1980 developed into one of the most politically successful green movements in the world.
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rather than neutrality, and secured membership in the military alliance. Adenauer was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present-day
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Article 23 provided the possibility for other parts of Germany to join the Federal Republic (under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany).
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At first, Bonn was referred to only as the provisional seat of government institutions, but from the early 1970s it was called the "federal capital" (
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had been represented by a united team led by the pre-war German NOC officials as the IOC had denied East German demands for a separate team. At the
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In October 1969 Willy Brandt became chancellor. He maintained West Germany's close alignment with the United States and focused on strengthening
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was held in West German cities and West Berlin. After having been beaten by their East German counterparts in the first round, the team of the
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Besides the interest in the older generation of writers, new authors emerged on the background of the experiences of war and after war period.
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in June 1950 led to U.S. calls to rearm West Germany to help defend Western Europe from the perceived Soviet threat. Germany's partners in the
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by the constitutionally required two-thirds majorities; effecting on the one hand, the extinction of the GDR and the re-establishment of
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members from positions of power and influence, by disbanding the organizations associated with Nazism, and by trying prominent Nazis for
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and many others. One day later, the parliament of the united Germany would assemble in an act of symbolism in the Reichstag building.
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the prime cause of the violence against students. Trucks carrying newspapers were set on fire and windows in office buildings broken.
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Dutch tanks, pictured in West Germany in 1956 as part of the large British and American-led foreign military presence in the country
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stimulus, West Germany developed one of the strongest economies in the world, almost as strong as before the Second World War. The
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was characterised as having been a 'failed' state, whose inherent institutional and constitutional flaws had been exploited by
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that the article was tantamount to high treason and that the authors would be prosecuted. The editor/owner of the magazine,
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were under NATO's joint defense command. (France withdrew from the collective military command structure of NATO in 1966.)
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In the 1969 election, the SPD gained enough votes to form a coalition government with the FDP. SPD leader and Chancellor
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newspaper, as a massive disruption to life in Berlin, in a massive campaign against the protesters. Protests against the
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and halted rampant inflation. The Allied dismantling of the West German coal and steel industry finally ended in 1950.
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was shown on West German television.) The processes set in motion by the Auschwitz trial reverberated decades later.
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The foundation for the influential position held by Germany today was laid during the economic miracle of the 1950s (
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in Hamburg were raided by the police and quantities of documents were seized. Chancellor Adenauer proclaimed in the
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In October 1982 the SPD–FDP coalition fell apart when the FDP joined forces with the CDU/CSU to elect CDU Chairman
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showed a certain growth, but not as much as in West Germany, partly because of continued reparations to the USSR.
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Between 1951 and 1953, there was even an effort by a clandestine group of former Nazi functionaries, known as the
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Main, Steven J. "The Soviet Occupation of Germany. Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945–1947."
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in world economics and politics between an affluent North and a poor South. Brandt was also known for his fierce
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regime was characterised as having been a 'criminal' state, illegal and illegitimate from the outset; while the
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was also a widespread colloquial form used in German-speaking countries, usually without political overtones.
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Leading up to the passing of the laws, there was fierce opposition to them, above all by the FDP, the rising
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During the time leading up to the passing of the laws, there was fierce opposition to them, above all by the
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for all of Germany, representing itself as the sole democratically reorganised continuation of the 1871–1945
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This article is about the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949–1990. For the western region of Germany, see
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With the dropping of Allied reparations, the freeing of German intellectual property and the impact of the
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aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on both the right wing, for his
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formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
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Kiesinger's 1966–69 "Grand Coalition" was between West Germany's two largest parties, the CDU/CSU and the
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concluded on 20 June 1991, with quite a slim majority, that both government and parliament should move to
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programme. West Germany encouraged and covered up a culture of doping across many sports for decades.
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of 944 billion (5.9% of the world total). In 1987 the FRG held a 7.4% share of total world production.
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crushed by the Germans, Brandt unexpectedly knelt and meditated in silence, a moment remembered as the
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A new coalition was formed to deal with this problem. Erhard stepped down in 1966 and was succeeded by
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was established in 1975, there was no serious debate as to whether West Germany would become a member.
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Article 146 provided the possibility for unification of all parts of Germany under a new constitution.
2998:), which were merely local branches of the national government, West Germany was divided into states ( 2813: 1259:(FRG in English) began to prevail in East German usage in the early 1970s, beginning in the newspaper 8012: 7197: 6293: 6287: 4994: 4989:, established in 1900, continued its tradition based in the Federal Republic of Germany, winning the 2344: 1449: 1445: 1380: 7015:
Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and Statesman in a Period of War, Revolution and Reconstruction
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West Germany played 43 matches at the European Championships, more than any other national team.
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Jonathan Story, "The launching of the EMS: An analysis of change in foreign economic policy."
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In West Germany, most of the political agencies and buildings were located in Bonn, while the
2178:) would cooperate in the EDC while maintaining independent control of their own armed forces. 8160: 8087: 7906: 7891: 7854: 6791:
Welfare in East and West: Hungarian Social Security in an International Comparison, 1918–1990
6104: 5562: 5193: 4973: 3194: 3172: 2610: 2518: 2334: 2294: 2147: 1977: 1787: 1429: 1179: 783: 419: 20: 3291:. On 5 May 1955 West Germany was declared to have the "authority of a sovereign state". The 3128:
in participating in international bodies and agreements, such as the United Nations and the
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Christian Democracy in Western Germany: the CDU/CSU in Government and Opposition 1945–1976
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The Brandt cabinet of 1969 on the steps of President Heinemanns's residence in Bonn, the
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in 1990). The former occupying Western troops remained on the ground, now as part of the
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initiative to rid German politics, judiciary, society, culture, press and economy of
2592: 1981: 1946: 1898: 1542: 1465: 1287: 1262: 1134: 1114:). In addition to the resulting ten states, West Berlin was considered an unofficial 1103: 1084: 1069: 904: 7022: 5365: 2093:, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded on 23 May 1949 under the terms of the 8134: 8082: 8077: 8067: 8062: 8057: 7884: 7849: 7823: 7495: 7299: 7268: 7223: 7218: 6727: 6496:
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Parties and Policies in Global Markets
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In the 20th century, association football became the largest sport in Germany. The
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Though the EDC treaty was signed (May 1952), it never entered into force. France's
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On 4–11 February 1945 leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the
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rejected it on the grounds that it threatened national sovereignty, and when the
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by France (the separation had been not fully legal as it had been opposed by the
1083:. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an 438: 161: 115: 49: 4950: 2795:
were able to reach the 5% minimum required to obtain parliamentary seats in the
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In 1949 with the continuation and aggravation of the Cold War (for example, the
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Silvia, Stephen J.; Stolpe, Michael (2007). "Health Care and Pension Reforms".
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Kaplan, Lawrence S. (1961). "NATO and Adenauer's Germany: Uneasy Partnership".
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The official German reunification ceremony on 3 October 1990 was held at the
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within the British zone. Berlin was a four-power area within the Soviet zone.
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voted to dissolve and accede to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990. The
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in its entirety, but only the third stanza was to be sung at official events.
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Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: a Biographical Dictionary
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Banking on Death: or, Investing in Life: the History and Future of Pensions
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Following the Ostpolitik, the West German view was that East Germany was a
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provincial election. Also of great significance was the steady growth of a
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With territories and frontiers that coincided largely with the ones of old
2039: 2026: 2017: 2005: 1996: 1988: 1967: 1914: 1763: 1694: 1684: 1645: 1532: 1268: 1232:) of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany, so 1175: 1111: 1088: 1080: 1076: 1065: 1057: 1027: 983: 589: 558: 464: 279: 275: 258: 103: 23:. For the Federal Republic of Germany after the reunification in 1990, see 6457:
Democracy's Guardian: A History of the German Federal Constitutional Court
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and Jeffrey Johnson, West Germany: Politics And Society, Croom Helm, 1982
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A rising middle power?: German foreign policy in transformation, 1989–1999
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joined West Germany as a state in 1957 after it had been separated as the
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which became the economic center. The judicial branch of both the German
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Total population of West Germany from 1950 to 1990, as collected by the
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became fundamental values among left-wing Germans. As a result, in 1979
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Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century
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The German Social Democrats since 1969: a Party in Power and Opposition
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This assessment of the Basic Treaty was confirmed in a decision of the
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remained head of government until May 1974, when he resigned after the
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study details how the West German government helped fund a wide-scale
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Political life in West Germany was remarkably stable and orderly. The
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The Imperfect Union; Constitutional Structures for German Unification
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A History of West Germany Vol 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963
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Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?
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William Glenn Gray, "Adenauer, Erhard, and the Uses of Prosperity."
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Stefan Schmidt, "Die Diskussion um den Gebrauch der Abkürzung «BRD»"
2992:. Whilst East Germany was divided into 15 administrative districts ( 7129: 6553:
The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany
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The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany
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The fading miracle : four decades of market economy in Germany
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Another result of the unrest in the 1960s was the founding of the
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not part of West Germany, for Berlin was under the control of the
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How a constitution can safeguard democracy:The German Experience
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between West Germany's two largest parties, the CDU/CSU and the
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Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
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was shot in the head by a policeman. The press, especially the
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but continued as the Federal Republic in an enlarged territory.
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From 1952 to 1991, the official national anthem of Germany was
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Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy
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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
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were both former members of the Nazi Party. Konrad Adenauer's
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Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic peoples
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Kohl: Genius of the Present : A Biography of Helmut Kohl
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of 1848, and which from 1871 had been represented within the
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At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the
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Survey of Social Security in the Federal Republic of Germany
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past had come into being. In the 1970s environmentalism and
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a final settlement of the post-war special status of Germany
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Continued as Chancellor of the reunified Germany until 1998.
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Schewe, Dieter; Nordhorn, Karlhugo; Schenke, Klaus (1972).
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Continued as President of the reunified Germany until 1994.
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Detlef Junker (editor), Translated by Sally E. Robertson,
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The Bonn Republic — West German democracy, 1945–1990,
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Zentner, Christian; Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. (1997) .
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Winkler, Heinrich August (2007). Sager, Alexander (ed.).
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subsequently resigned in April 1987 and was succeeded by
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Three southwestern states of West Germany merged to form
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The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War
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The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War
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In the dominant post-war narrative of West Germany, the
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where future arrangements regarding post-war Europe and
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Hovels to High Rise: State Housing in Europe Since 1850
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would not have diplomatic relations with West Germany.
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newspaper, launched a campaign against the protesters.
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became a recognised measure for describing the general
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was modified to include West Germany, and to form the
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Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
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Before reunification, Germany was divided between the
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FOWID, Religionszugehörigkeit Bevölkerung 1970–2011 (
5415:. See Section "The Presence of the Past" paragraph 9. 5336: 2976:
The West German government was known to be much more
2717:(CSU), either alone or in coalition with the smaller 2477:
in western Europe, while launching the new policy of
1962:. Soon afterwards, the French zone was included into 270: Lands of pre-1937 Germany that were annexed by 6215:"Report: West Germany systematically doped athletes" 5632: 5527:, Rogner und Bernhard, 1998 Dokument Nr. 193, p. 356 5058: 2969:) and the highest Court of Appeals, were located in 2943:'s senior officials were former Nazi Party members. 2935:
had played a major role in drafting the antisemitic
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in Germany, early 1946. The territories east of the
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Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison
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Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War
5253: 5251: 2701:era (1949–63) was followed by a brief period under 2507:policies at the domestic level, culminating in the 6233:"Study Says West Germany Engaged in Sports Doping" 5783:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.  5742: 3324: 6848:Germany: The Long Road West, Volume II: 1933–1990 6772:Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany 2382:patiently gathered evidence on the guards of the 8152: 7104:Documents on Germany under Occupation, 1945–1954 6864: 6807: 6610:The Social Democratic Party of Germany 1848–2005 6292:. 2013 Guinness World Records Limited. pp.  6102: 5807: 5248: 3020: 1030:on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the 6944:Henderson, David R. "German Economic Miracle." 6476:Recent Social Trends in West Germany, 1960–1990 6321: 5543:. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. p. 92. 5536: 3102:government within a single German nation and a 2301:to be limited in case of a state of emergency. 2146:was a German statesman who served as the first 1238:became the official name of reunified Germany. 228:Location of West Germany (dark green) 208:Location of West Germany (dark green) 6607: 6378: 6251:"Report exposes decades of West German doping" 5186: 5184: 3062:In the early 1970s, Willy Brandt's policy of " 2761:("Democracy in a State of Emergency") and the 1321:or its equivalent was used in many languages. 1188:) were reconstituted, along with the reunited 261:(East Germany), claimed by West Germany until 7145: 6969:, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989. 6953:After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995 6808:Williamson, John B.; Pampel, Fred C. (2002). 6493: 6381:Management, Quality and Economics in Building 2524:Brandt resigned as chancellor in 1974, after 2148:chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1861: 16:Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1990 7062:The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History 6746: 6608:Potthoff, Heinrich; Miller, Susanne (2006). 6088: 5515: 5513: 5497:(Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005) p 179. 5223:. University of Chicago Press. 2002. p. 263. 5191: 5173: 5087:Economic history of the German reunification 4920: 4723: 3330: 3262: 3238: 3230: 3216: 3196: 3170: 3148: 3063: 3005: 2999: 2993: 2984:East German counterpart, the former being a 2964: 2833: 2773: 2674: 2648: 2638: 2632: 2445: 2398: 2384: 2352: 2338: 2324: 2260: 2254: 2246: 2211: 2203: 2070: 2048: 1971: 1923:Allied strategy against Japan in the Pacific 1729: 1615: 1322: 1294:had agreed to refuse to use the initialism. 1260: 1248: 1242: 1233: 1227: 1221: 1215: 1193: 1183: 1132: 1022:from its formation on 23 May 1949 until its 994: 968: 953: 757: 159: 133: 113: 101: 41: 7264:Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16) 6810:Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective 5840:, New York: Random House, 1961 pages 37–40. 5181: 2885:List of companies involved in the Holocaust 2783:By 1968, a stronger desire to confront the 2393:about twenty were put on trial in Frankfurt 2227: 2075:from the GDR and East Berlin joined in 1990 1115: 8186:States and territories established in 1949 7152: 7138: 7071:(Central European University Press, 2004) 6494:Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. (2001). 6379:Bezelga, Artur; Brandon, Peter S. (1991). 5975:. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 2692: 2619:in 1989, symbolised by the opening of the 1868: 1854: 982:, between January 1957 and July 1959, the 242: 222: 202: 6463: 6435: 6416: 6397: 6103:Pollack, D.; Rosta, G.; West, D. (2017). 5510: 5401:, A Handbook Volume 1, 1945–1968 Series: 5354: 3283:In 1952, West Germany became part of the 3189:in July 1990, and on 3 October 1990, the 2245:In October 1962 the weekly news magazine 2053:, the East German states and East Berlin 1301:country code of West Germany was DE (for 1286:that the West German public broadcasters 6984:The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty 6967:The Soviet-East German Military Alliance 6826: 6683: 6664: 6454: 6359: 5909:Texas Law: Foreign Law Translations 1973 5884:, Princeton University Press, p. 14 5734: 5521:Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung 5342: 5330: 4972: 3247: 3030: 2812: 2723: 2705:(1963–66) who, in turn, was replaced by 2423: 2303: 2138: 2064: 1970:. At the same time, new federal states ( 1936: 1885: 658:248,717 km (96,030 sq mi) 217: 7079:Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany 6908:Democracy and Its Discontents 1963–1988 6845: 6645: 6555:(3rd ed.). Duke University Press. 6550: 6531: 6472: 6285: 6109:. Oxford University Press. p. 76. 5970: 5937: 5894: 2947:Geographical distribution of government 2116:, a member of the subsequently founded 1002:The state did not cease to exist after 8153: 6769: 6711: 6588: 6515:Contemporary Western European Feminism 6512: 6340: 6057: 5740: 5424: 1276:Federal Minister of All-German Affairs 918:Federal Republic of Germany since 1990 7133: 6946:The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics 6894:Bark, Dennis L., and David R. Gress. 6788: 6626: 5920:from the original on 20 December 2016 5879: 5651:(January 2004), Vol. 44, pp. 395–414. 5599: 5278:Anthony James Nicholls, Longman, 1997 5161:[ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːkˈdɔʏtʃlant] 5159: 5128: 3303:remained in the country, just as the 3181:The two German states entered into a 2939:in Nazi Germany. In 1957, 77% of the 2897:ideology and personnel following the 1966:. Conversely, the Soviet zone became 1209: 1170:, both states took action to achieve 971:Federal Statistical Office of Germany 7159: 6591:Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany 6569: 6473:Glatzer, Wolfgang (21 August 1992). 6187: 6161: 5861:from the original on 23 January 2019 5773: 5465:(National Defense University, 1987) 5038:Doping in Germany from 1950 to today 4937:Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 3287:, which would later evolve into the 3015: 8196:1949 establishments in West Germany 6868:The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich 6045:from the original on 11 August 2018 6015:from the original on 11 August 2018 5600:Denso, Christian (13 August 2011). 3210: 2721:(FDP) or other right-wing parties. 2406:American mini-series with that name 2108:West Germany became a focus of the 1018:is the common English name for the 967:Population statistics according to 877:American occupation zone in Germany 13: 7096: 7057:, broad survey of reunified nation 6887: 6572:Europe Since 1945: an Introduction 6459:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 6039:DESTATIS – Statistisches Bundesamt 6009:DESTATIS – Statistisches Bundesamt 5749:. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp.  5221:Music and German National Identity 4694:Central Council of Jews in Germany 2861:constructive vote of no confidence 2581:constructive vote of no confidence 2412:obtain parliamentary seats in the 2103:North Atlantic Treaty Organization 2060: 863:British occupation zone in Germany 172: 146: 14: 8207: 7113: 5838:The New Germany and the Old Nazis 5602:"RAF: Gefangen in der Geschichte" 5364:, Goethe-Institut, archived from 5005:won the cup again, defeating the 4977:Postage stamps commemorating the 4910: 3285:European Coal and Steel Community 3193:dissolved and the re-established 2870: 2623:, there was a rapid move towards 2587:, who received 5.6% of the vote. 2546: 2160:European Coal and Steel Community 2022:Soviet occupation zone in Germany 891:French occupation zone in Germany 7118: 7106:(Oxford University Press, 1955) 6593:. New York: St. Martin's Press. 5731:2003, Vol. 40, 25 September 2003 5061: 2598: 2375:War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg 1834: 1820: 1359: 922: 897: 883: 869: 855: 282:, claimed by West Germany until 116:Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit 81: 67: 7356:German revolutions of 1848–1849 7325:Ostsiedlung (East Colonisation) 7047:Developments in German Politics 6976:(2014) 66#8 pp. 1380–1382. 6498:. University of Chicago Press. 6440:. Manchester University Press. 6438:The Retreat of Social Democracy 6326:. University of Chicago Press. 6279: 6261: 6243: 6225: 6207: 6181: 6155: 6130: 6077: 6027: 5997: 5964: 5943: 5900: 5873: 5843: 5830: 5813: 5767: 5706: 5686: 5667: 5654: 5641: 5633:Max Otte; Jürgen Greve (2000). 5626: 5614:from the original on 8 May 2013 5593: 5581: 5530: 5487: 5472: 5455: 5418: 5382: 5348: 4993:in a stunning upset dubbed the 3325:Population and vital statistics 3319: 3223:("economic miracle", coined by 2941:West German Ministry of Justice 2462: 1628:German revolutions of 1848–1849 1223:Deutsche Demokratische Republik 251: Territory of West Germany 121:"Unity and Justice and Freedom" 8191:1949 establishments in Germany 7341:Early modern period, 1500–1800 7229:List of early Germanic peoples 6190:"Season 1980 | UEFA EURO 1980" 6164:"Season 1972 | UEFA EURO 1972" 5307: 5281: 5269: 5226: 5213: 5109: 5077:History of Germany (1945–1990) 4987:Germany national football team 4707:Religion in West Germany, 1970 3147:The West German Constitution ( 3119:government, but also the sole 3081:Four Power Agreement on Berlin 2867:condition changed until 1998. 2570: 1882:History of Germany (1945–1990) 1: 7464:History of Germany since 1990 7019:excerpt and text search vol 2 6827:Wilsford, David, ed. (1995). 6770:Thelen, Kathleen Ann (1991). 6035:"Population by area in 1,000" 5712:quoted in: Gregor Schöllgen. 5206: 3021:Position towards East Germany 2797:Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 2414:Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 330: 8181:Political history of Germany 6774:. Cornell University Press. 5808:Zentner & Bedürftig 1997 5694:Willy Brandt. Die Biographie 5405:German Historical Institutes 5102: 4690:Roman Catholicism in Germany 4686:Protestant Church in Germany 3362:Crude death rate (per 1000) 3359:Crude birth rate (per 1000) 3347:Average population (x 1000) 3137:Federal Constitutional Court 2961:Federal Constitutional Court 2528:, one of his closest aides, 2321:West German student movement 2192:London and Paris Conferences 1271:nations soon followed suit. 1160:collapse of the Eastern Bloc 1062:Allied occupation of Germany 1044:) after its capital city of 7: 8166:Contemporary German history 6871:. New York: Da Capo Press. 6850:. Oxford University Press. 6812:. 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