West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG (German:Bundesrepublik Deutschland or BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. This period is referred to as the Bonn Republic (German:Bonner Republik) by academic historians, an earlier term being the Bonn State (German:Bonner Staat).
During this period NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border. After 1961, West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. With the reunification of West and East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to sixteen states, became known simply as "Germany".
The Federal Republic of Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France (the "Western Zones"). Its population grew from roughly 51 million in 1950 to more than 63 million in 1990. The city of Bonn was its de facto capital city (Berlin was symbolically named the de jure capital city in the West German Basic Law). The fourth Allied occupation zone (the East Zone, or Ostzone) was held by the Soviet Union. The parts of this zone lying east of the Oder-Neisse were in fact annexed by the Soviet Union and communist Poland; the remaining central part around Berlin became the communist German Democratic Republic (abbreviated GDR; in German Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) with its de facto capital in East Berlin. As a result, West Germany had a territory about half the size of the interbellum democratic Weimar Republic.
Has it been 40 years? Still a hostage New kind of fascist There in West Germany The people are battlefields East and west The lines are drawn How are you to live? Fear of death is so close Crimes on our heads Are we ignorant, blind?
...EastGerman plot to reunify the country ... At Juilliard, he and several classmates wrote and performed “How It All Began,” adapted from the autobiography of West German urban guerrilla Michael Baumann.
Jumping forward a millennia or two, we find ourselves in the sleepy WestGerman town of Düssledorf—the incubator of krautrock and German electronic experimentalism.
On the radical left, Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, said a “panicking illiberal establishment across the west” was “diving headlong into a totalitarian pit” and “France’s neofascists will only benefit from this”.
But they're the alternatives on offer when it comes to the future of the west ... this next half-decade is much of the west's last meaningful election cycle ... were ever going to do to "adjust" to the west.
Guards like this one killed at least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the wall’s existence from 1961 to 1989. VoPo was the nickname used for the EastGerman...
German intelligence agencies are wary that the Kremlin could be preparing a full-scale assault on Nato by the end of the decade, according to multiple sources ... views the West as a “systematic enemy”.
Her son Seymour Platt gives a wry smile. 'She's quoted as saying that ... She really enjoyed sex ... In June 1963, he quit in disgrace, amid allegations Keeler had been asked by Ivanov to discover from the War Minister when the WestGermans might receive U.S.
The quake’s epicenter was located about 16 kilometers from the city of Sagaing, in the country’s in the north-west, USGS said. The German Georesearch Institute (GFZ) in Potsdam reported that the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4.
WestBank and East Jerusalem... And last weekend a German journalist was arrested by Israeli police in the occupied West Bank for allegedly assaulting a settler, despite video footage showing settlers blocking him and acting threateningly.