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| | Germany - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Germany |
 | | West Germany was admitted to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC; the predecessor of the OECD) in 1949; and became a full member of the Council of Europe in 1951. | | | Additionally, relations with several Arab states were strained by West Germany's agreement to establish ambassadorial relations with Israel, to whom, by 1965, it had completed payment of large reparations for the Holocaust. | | | West Germany was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, under which the European Economic Community (EEC) came into being on 1 January 1958. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Berlin |
| | West Berlin remained an urban island surrounded by Communist East Germany. | | | Berlin became the capital of Germany in 1871, when the numerous independent kingdoms and principalities of Germany united to form a single nation-state (see German Unification (1871)). | | | In 1990, following the collapse of Communism in the USSR and East Germany, Germany was reunified, and a united Berlin was declared its capital. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Berlin Wall |
| | West Berlin was occupied by British, French, and United States forces and was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as West Germany. | | | Although the GDR announced that the wall was needed to prevent military aggression and political interference from West Germany, the East German government built tank traps and ditches along the eastern side of the wall, suggesting that it was constructed to keep East German citizens in. | | | Many East Germans left the GDR hoping to find better economic opportunities in the West. |
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| | East Berlin, Germany - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
| | West Berlin was occupied by British, French, and United States forces and was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as West Germany. | | | East Germany eventually participated in the removal of the Berlin Wall and reunited with West Germany in 1990 as one nation, the Federal Republic of Germany. | | | Although the GDR announced that the wall was needed to prevent military aggression and political interference from West Germany, the East German government built tank traps and ditches along the eastern side of the wall, suggesting that it was constructed to keep East German citizens in. |
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| | Germany - encyclopedia article about Germany. |
| | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies, with West Germany and West Berlin being controlled by the Western allies and East Germany and East Berlin by the Soviet Union. | | | It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east. |
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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Before the 1970s, the official position of West Germany was that of the Hallstein Doctrine which involved non-recognition of East Germany. | | | East Germany adopted a socialist republic and became part of the Warsaw Pact, while West Germany became a liberal parliamentary republic and part of NATO. | | | The equivalent of the Communist Party in East Germany was the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED), which along with other parties, was part of the National Front of Democratic Germany. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Poll: 24% of west Germans want Berlin Wall back |
| | The report said 2,000 people in Berlin and the surrounding Brandenburg region were polled, as well as an unspecified number of people across all Germany. | | | Some of those stereotypes came through in the poll, with 58% of West Berliners agreeing that "east Germans are inclined to pity themselves" and 47% of East Berliners agreeing that "west Germans conquered the former East Germany in colonial style." | | | Germany has poured some $2 trillion into rebuilding the former East Germany, after the collapse of its communist regime led to reunification in 1990. |
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| | Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany |
| | The reconfiguration of Germany resulting from unification has arrested the development of the German Democratic Republic as a separate nation and fundamentally altered the evolution of the West German state after the eastern New German States were joined to the West in 1991. | | | The post-unification period has witnessed the privatization of the East German economy, the de-regulation of most areas of public life and the de-centralization of the centralized economic and political institutions in the country. | | | This is a tactic of most of the other East Berlin groups able to travel to the West prior to the fall of the wall as well. |
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| | East Germany. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | Unable to resist the tide of reform sweeping across communist states, the East German government agreed in 1990 to the reunification of Germany under the leadership of West Germany. | | | Former nation in north-central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990, when East and West Germany were reunited. | | | Popular protests for democracy forced the communist government to open the Berlin Wall in 1989 and allow its citizens to migrate to West Germany. |
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| | PETER H. OPPENHEIMER: The Sudentendeutsche Landsmannschaft |
| | West Germany's political parties were quite supportive of expellee aims in general, and Sudeten Germans in particular. | | | The SL argued publicly that the Sudeten Germans were expelled to cause turmoil and unrest in West Germany. | | | These proclamations signified SL success at solidifying the Sudeten Problem within the political mind of West Germany. |
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| | Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | West Germany was allied with the United States, the UK and France. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, American in the south-east, and Soviet in the north-east. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m / 9,718 ft) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (Nordsee) in the north-west and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the north-east. |
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| | The End of East Germany Germany Deutsche Welle 23.08.2005 |
| | Either the East Germans would toss their dreams of a socialist state and reunify quickly with wealthier West Germany, or the economically-decrepit GDR would try to retain some sense of its past and vote for independence, at least for the time being. | | | As Germany marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the country's politicians took stock of the state of the nation -- and concluded that East-West discrepancies are still cleaving the country. | | | Fifteen years ago, the parliament of former communist East Germany decided that a reunified Germany would be wiser and voted to join the West German state -- a historical moment that ended 45 years of Cold War. |
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| | Bonn: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | A.D., it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. | | | Bonn became West Germany's capital in 1949 and reunified Germany's capital in 1990, but it has since lost that distinction to Berlin. | | | Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2004 est): 313,605 ; the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine. |
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| | Articles - Germany |
| | West Germany was allied with the United States, the UK and France. | | | Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones â French in the south-west, British in the north-west, American in the south, and Soviet in the east. | | | The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (Nordsee) in the north-west and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the north-east. |
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Most of the major political parties in Germany are those that dominated West German politics between 1949 and 1990. | | | Berlin was the cultural as well as the political capital of a unified Germany from 1871 to 1945 and resumed that role in the 1990s. | | | Lacking geographical boundaries except for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, it was in the path of migrations and invasions from the east and west, and the fluidity of the population helped delay German unification. |
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| | ipedia.com: Prussia Article |
| | Bismarck was determined to defeat both the liberals and the conservatives, by creating a strong united Germany, but under the domination of the Prussian ruling class and bureaucracy, not the western German liberals. | | | Prussia's democratic constitution was suspended in 1932 as a result of a coup by Germany's conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen, marking the effective end of German democracy. | | | Prussia also acquired various territories in other parts of Germany through marriage or inheritance, including Pomerania on the Baltic coast. |
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| | Germany |
| | West Germany also became a member of NATO. | | | Germany's recession continued in 2003—for the previous three years Europe's biggest economy had the lowest growth rate among EU countries. | | | Under the agreement, West Germany and Italy became members of the Brussels treaty organization created in 1948 and renamed the Western European Union. |
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| | AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here. |
| | 1990, Oct. 3: German Democratic Republic (East Germany) reunited with Germany (West Germany); see Baden, Berlin, Rhine Palatinate, Württemberg. | | | Germany, Soviet Zone: eastern portion of occupied Germany; 1945: see Berlin-Brandenberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 1946-48: occupation issues for American, British and Russian zones, 1948: separate stamps for Berlin issued, 1949: country divided into West Germany (German Federal Republic) and East Germany (German Democratic Republic) former Soviet Zone, each with own stamps. | | | Germany, West Berlin: WW II end - Sept. 19, 1948: stamps of Anglo-American Zones of Germany valid, 1948: occupation issue of 1947 overprinted "Berlin" for Anglo-American areas, 1950, Jan. 20: stamps of West Berlin valid in Federal Republic of Germany. |
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| | Germany 10 from Hospitality North, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada |
| | The capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990, it remained the seat of government after Germany's 1990 unification, while Berlin was chosen as the national capital. | | | West Germany reunited with East Germany in 1990. | | | Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), state in western Germany, bounded on the north by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the east by the states of Hesse and Baden- Württemberg, on the south by France and the state of Saarland, and on the west by Luxembourg and Belgium. |
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| | CNN - Cold War: Chat with David Murphy: |
| | It was indeed the Western presence in West Berlin which continued to make it difficult for them, not only to achieve those goals but to consolidate their position in East Germany. | | | David Murphy: The Soviets looked upon Berlin, their sector of Berlin, as the basis not only for being able to eliminate our presence from West Berlin, but then as a stepping stone for the military conquest of West Germany. | | | For example, in November 1960, the KGB received a report that Willy Brandt, the mayor, had addressed a meeting in West Berlin -- in which he said that he fully expected that there would be a division of Berlin imposed by the East Germans, and he further predicted that the allies would do nothing. |
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| | CNN.com - Main parties struggle in east Germany - Aug 22, 2005 |
| | Merkel grew up in communist East Germany, and the CDU was hoping that her background would be an asset. | | | The former Conservative leadership candidate Edmund Stoiber told a Bavarian audience that "the east should not be allowed to determine the outcome of the elections" and that "the frustrated should not be allowed to chose the next chancellor." He also suggested that "easterners" were less intelligent than "westerners." | | | She is still seen as a western politician in the east, because she represents a western party -- and she cannot go all out on the east German card, for fear of losing votes in the west. |
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| | Eastern Germany's EU Funds in Danger of Drying Up Germany Deutsche Welle 24.05.2004 |
| | Germany's attempt to rebuild its once communist East has been an unmitigated disaster and the massive financial transfers from the West endanger the entire nation's economy, according to a government-commissioned report. | | | However, unemployment in Germany's eastern states is over 20 percent, and despite an estimated €1.25 trillion ($1.5) in aid, the economic gap separating east and west hasn't been closed. | | | Statistically speaking, eastern Germany is no longer among the poorest regions in the EU, now that the bloc has expanded eastwards to include several ex-communist states with struggling economies. |
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| | MSN Encarta - East Germany |
| | In the 1950s East Germany's relations with capitalist West Germany became strained after West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer claimed that all Germans were one nation and insisted on dealing with the Socialist Unity Party rather than with the East German government. | | | East Germany, established under Soviet auspices in 1949 in reaction to the Allied-sponsored founding of West Germany, insisted on international recognition as an independent Communist state. | | | Introduction; The Ulbricht Years; Relations with West Germany; Strict Party Control; The Socialist Government; New Leadership; The End of the GDR |
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| | Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany |
| | The reconfiguration of Germany resulting from unification has arrested the development of the German Democratic Republic as a separate nation and fundamentally altered the evolution of the West German state after the eastern New German States were joined to the West in 1991. | | | This is a tactic of most of the other East Berlin groups able to travel to the West prior to the fall of the wall as well. | | | East Germans are reconstructing and renegotiating their identities with rock music, drawing on both local as well as global sources, re-interpreting symbols and musical narratives to both accommodate and resist hegemonic West German historical and cultural discourses which de-legitimize and subordinate East German social experiences and discourses within the project of German unification. |
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| | Just War and the Construct of the West |
| | West Germany was surrounded by a military union (NATO) cum emerging Western economic supranational structure (the EU). | | | The foes of the West, steeped in conspiracy theories and embittered by centuries of savage colonialism, will not find credible the alleged disintegration of the Western alliance, say the Americans. | | | Thus, the threat of militant Islam is unlikely to revive the West. |
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| | Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During World War II, when Greece was occupied by Nazi Germany, 86% of the Greek Jews were murdered by the invading Axis and only a minority survived and most of them have emigrated to Israel. | | | The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south. | | | Greece also has some Roman Catholics, mainly in the city of Patras and the Cyclades islands of Syros, Paros and Naxos; some Protestants and some Jews, mainly in Thessaloniki (which was once a major Jewish city until the Holocaust). |
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| | Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany |
| | The reconfiguration of Germany resulting from unification has arrested the development of the German Democratic Republic as a separate nation and fundamentally altered the evolution of the West German state after the eastern New German States were joined to the West in 1991. | | | This is a tactic of most of the other East Berlin groups able to travel to the West prior to the fall of the wall as well. | | | East Germans are reconstructing and renegotiating their identities with rock music, drawing on both local as well as global sources, re-interpreting symbols and musical narratives to both accommodate and resist hegemonic West German historical and cultural discourses which de-legitimize and subordinate East German social experiences and discourses within the project of German unification. |
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| | Secrets of Divided Berlin |
| | West Berlin was an island in the middle of East Germany, over one hundred miles from West Germany. | | | Many people imagine that Berlin straddled the border between East and West Germany and was split down the middle when the two German states went their separate ways. | | | The communists controlled access to East Berlin, but the West maintained that there should be free passage among the four sectors of the city and didn't search people or vehicles entering into West Berlin from the East. |
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| | Johannes Buzalski |
| | alternativ: Rinaldo bläst zum Zapfenstreich (West Germany: video title) | | | alternativ: Gipfelglück im Dirndlrock (West Germany: video title) | | | alternativ: Orgien in der Lederhose (West Germany: video title) |
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| | Analysis: Will Gamble on Eastern Germany Pay Off? |
| | West Germany's powerful labor unions added to the pressure, pushing hard to extend the terms for all western contracts into the eastern states in part to avoid hearing an immediate Ross Perot-style sucking sound of jobs moving from west to east. | | | But for eastern Germany, where the output per worker is only half as much, the wage situation is catastrophic. | | | And without Germany, there can be no Euro soon, wrecking the timetable on which Europe's political leaders have pinned much of their hopes for long-term economic recovery. |
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