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9 unusual facts about West Germany


1952 in Israel

According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the slave labor and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and to compensate for Jewish property that was stolen by the Nazis.

Ben Blank

In a 1961 visit to West Germany, Blank visited the state television network's graphic department, discovering that they were using methods under which the staff took eight days to prepare an on-screen graphic as they were sending drawings to outside processors for photo processing and type house work.

Garo Aida

His photos were also published during the 1980s in the Italian, German, and Spanish editions of Photo and in France's Newlook magazine, among others.

Guido Giannettini

In 1969, he participated to an Italian military delegation to West Germany to prepare the buying of Leopard tanks.

Lake Assad

In 1957, an agreement was reached with the Soviet Union for technical and financial aid for the construction of a dam in the Euphrates, and in 1960 a financial agreement was signed with West Germany.

Russian All National Popular State Movement

The Russian All National Popular State Movement (in Russian: Rossiyskoe Obschenatsional'noe Narodno Derzhavnoe Dvizheniye, abbreviated as RONDD, Cyrillic: Российское Общенациональное Народно Державное Движение, abbreviated as РОНДД) was a Russian political emigre organization based primarily in West Germany that sought to unite the participants of the Russian Liberation Army and the anti-communist Russian White émigrés.

Tiitinen list

The Tiitinen list is a Finnish classified government document which was given by West Germany to the Finnish Security Police (Supo) in 1990.

West Germany

Since the 1950s, Germany at the Olympics 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.

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In 1973, official East German sources adopted it as a standard expression and other Eastern Bloc nations soon followed suit.


1970–71 in Belgian football

RFC Brugeois eliminated Kickers Offenbach of West Germany in the first round of the 1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup (lost 1-2 away, won 2-0 at home) and FC Zürich of Switzerland in the second round (won 2-0 at home, lost 1-2 away).

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 – 20th 1981.

1987 in Denmark

14 October — Denmark qualifies for UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany by defeating Wales in their last game in Group 6 of the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying and thusreby winning the group one point ahead of Czechoslovakia.

Alwin Wagner

Alwin Josef Wagner (born 11 August 1950 in Melsungen, Hessen) is a West German discus thrower and weight lifter, who was affiliated with University Sportclub Mainz (USC Mainz).

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.

Arno Schmidt

In Kastel, he was accused in court of blasphemy and moral subversion, which was then still prosecuted in the Catholic parts of West Germany.

Christian Zirkelbach

Christian Zirkelbach (born 20 December 1961 in Würzburg) is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.

Dahlerau train disaster

The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that took place on May 27, 1971 in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on.

Death Is My Trade

In 1977, the novel was made into a movie in West Germany as Aus einem deutschen Leben ("From a German life") with Götz George as Franz Lang (the name "Rudolf" was changed into Franz), directed by Theodor Kotulla.

DKW 3=6

The company was effectively refounded in West Germany in 1949, following the loss to the Soviets of its Zwickau assets.Three of the four businesses that had constituted Auto Union before the war seemed unlikely ever to reappear on either side of the Iron Curtain, but starting in 1949 the DKW name was used for the F89 assembled by Auto Union in the west: this was the model replaced by the 3=6.

DUX

A large number of these weapons were produced for the West German Border Police, and was later licensed to be produced by Anschütz and Mauser until the mid-1950s.

English Freakbeat, Volume 4

Shorty & Them is a band from Newcastle that relocated to Germany and released an album there in conjunction with a Liverpool band, the Roadrunners; this long version of "Dimples" is taken from that LP.

Erika Leitner

Leitner also won a bronze medal in the women's singles event at the 1955 European luge championships in Hahnenklee, West Germany.

FIBT World Championships 1986

The FIBT World Championships 1986 took place in Königssee, West Germany for the second time, having hosted the event previously in 1979.

FIL European Luge Championships 1972

The FIL European Luge Championships 1972 took place in Königssee, West Germany for the second time after previously hosting the event in 1967.

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1989

The 1989 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between March 1st and March 5th at the Oberjoch ski resort in then-West Germany.

Franco Fabbri

Born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the West German record critics, coming ahead of Police.

French Skyline

The opening track, "Latin Sirens Face The Wall," was recorded at Klaus Schulze Studios in Hambühren, West Germany, and was engineered by Klaus Schulze.

G. L. Peiris

Born to Glanville Peiris, diplomat who was the former Director-General External Affairs, Ceylon's Ambassador to West Germany and Myanmar and Lakshmi Chandrika Peiris.

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer.

Gregor Braun

He represented West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he won the gold medal in the men's individual pursuit, defeating Holland's Herman Ponsteen.

Hans Estner

Hans Estner (born 7 April 1951 in Tegernsee) is a West German former biathlete who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the 4x7.5 km relay.

Hans-Jürgen Riemenschneider

Hans-Jürgen Reimenschneider (born May 4, 1949 in Bad Nauheim) is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s.

Hans-Otto Schumacher

Hans-Otto Schumacher (born February 17, 1950 in Grevenbroich) is a West German slalom canoer who competed in the 1970s.

Harald Konopka

Konopka's career for West Germany was a brief one, lasting for only two matches, but earned him a participation in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

Heinfried Birlenbach

Heinfried Birlenbach (born May 24, 1940 in Siegen) is a retired West German shot putter.

Heinrich Lübke

Karl Heinrich Lübke (14 October 1894, Enkhausen, Westphalia – 6 April 1972) was President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1959 to 1969.

Heinz Lammerding

In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn't extradited by West Germany.

Helmut Thaler

He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1967 FIL European Luge Championships in Königssee, West Germany.

Hermann Küppel

He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1955 European luge championships in Hahnenklee, West Germany.

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.

Horst Tiedge

He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Ingrid Becker

Ingrid Mickler-Becker (née Ingrid Becker; born September 26, 1942 in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion.

Johnson RHJ-6 Adastra

In its original configuration Johnson flew the Adastra in the 1960 World Gliding Championships in Cologne, West Germany and finished in 15th place.

José Ángel Iribar

He retained his position for a further 10 years, his last game coming on 24 April 1976 in a 1–1 against West Germany for the unsuccessful UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying, and gained a total of 49 caps.

Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand

Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand (born 11 September 1952 in Dörrebach) was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 5000 metres.

Laima Zilporytė

There she won the bronze medal in the women's individual road race, after being defeated in the sprint by the Netherlands' Monique Knol and West Germany's Jutta Niehaus.

Len Shackleton

His one goal was scored with a chip against the then World Champions West Germany in December 1954, the last England goal scored by a Sunderland player until Darren Bent's goal against Switzerland in September 2010 .

Luis Schlögl

He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1952 European luge championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

Martin Roos

He began studying theology at the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia in 1961, continuing from 1962 to 1969 at Königstein im Taunus in West Germany.

Paul Isser

He won a gold medal in the men's doubles event at the 1955 European luge championships in Hahnenklee, West Germany.

Plaza Accord

The Plaza Accord or Plaza Agreement was an agreement between the governments of France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets.

Rainer Henkel

Rainer Henkel (born 27 February 1964 in Opladen) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Rob Muzzio

Robert ("Rob") Muzzio (born 25 June 1964, in Würzburg, West Germany to American parents) is a retired male decathlete from the United States, who represented Team USA at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Soil value

Since this farm was no longer available for comparisons within West Germany after the Second World War, a farm in Machtsum near Harsum in the Hildesheim Börde was designated as the Federal Standard Farm.

Werner Kohlmeyer

In one of his last games for Germany, Kohlmeyer faced Stanley Matthews at Wembley on 1 December 1954, in an international friendly between England and West Germany.

Western Allies

In 1949 the American, British and French sectors in Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, while the Soviet sector became the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.

World Confederation for Physical Therapy

In 1951 the World Confederation for Physical Therapy had 11 founding member organisations from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, West Germany, Sweden and the United States of America.


see also

32d Intelligence Squadron

The squadron moved to Spangdahlem Air Base, West Germany in May 1953 where all of the elements of the parent 10th TRW were assembled at one base.

527th Space Aggressor Squadron

The squadron relocated to a new base, located west of the Rhine River near Kaiserslautern, West Germany in 1952.

56th Field Artillery Command

The third tactical battalion was deployed in May 1965 as the 3rd Bn, 84th FA to a headquarters in Neckarsulm, West Germany.

Albert Krauss

Three years later, he won a silver medal in the same event for West Germany at the European championships in Hahnenklee.

Aygül Özkan

Özkan's father immigrated from Ankara (Turkey) to Hamburg (West Germany) in the 1960s, where he first worked for Deutsche Bundespost and subsequently set up an independent business as a tailor in Hamburg.

Bad Aibling Station

Simultaneously, the Army Security Agency transferred most of its activities in West Germany from its field stations located at Rothwesten, Bad Aibling and Herzogenaurach to Augsburg.

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg

But his estate was nationalized by the Communist authorities, and he fled with his family to West-Germany and lived in Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse.

Charlotte Teske

Charlotte Teske (née Bernhardt; born November 23, 1949 in Sachsenhausen, a neighborhood in Waldeck, Hesse) is a former female long-distance runner from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Christina Lindberg

Lindberg did not like that nude pictures were getting more and more explicit and during the filming of Gerard Damiano's Flossie (AKA Natalie—not to be confused with a 1974 film of the same name, which was directed by Mac Ahlberg and starred Marie Forså) in West Germany—she left the set and returned home to Sweden.

Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

In the United States an organization with a similar name, the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, was founded in the late 1940s, and became known for their CIA-run and later Congress-funded propaganda broadcaster Radio Liberty, which operated from Munich, in West Germany.

Dan Duryea

In his last years, Duryea worked in overseas film productions including the Italian Western, The Hills Run Red (1966) and the spy thriller Five Golden Dragons (1967) in West Germany while continuing to find roles on American television.

Disappearance of Katrice Lee

Katrice Lee was born on 28 November 1979, in BMH (British Military Hospital) Rinteln in West Germany, and spent the first two years of her life in Paderborn.

Garden Egg chair

Peter Ghyczy (1940) left his motherland Hungary in 1956 because of the revolution and moved to West Germany.

John Paul Vann

Neil Sheehan wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam history and biography of Vann, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, in which Sheehan examines Vann's alleged career-stunting incident involving a morals charge during his service in West Germany and how this possibly affected Vann's future actions and resulting career path in Vietnam.

Lit Brothers

It was built by German toy manufacturer Christian Hofmann of Bad Rodach, West Germany.

Lydie Auvray

The following year began touring as an accompanist for various singers in West Germany, including Thommie Bayer and Klaus Hoffmann.

Marxist Group

International Marxist Group (Ger.: Gruppe Internationale Marxisten), a Trotskyist group in West Germany

Nuclear activities in Brazil

Once he assumed office in January 1977, Carter dispatched his vice president, Walter Mondale, to West Germany for his first official visit.

Olavi Alakulppi

While Alakulppi served as a company commander in West Germany in the 1950s, his personal chauffeur was Elvis Presley who was carrying out his military service.

Pakistan Steel Mills

In June 1966, another West-German steel firm, the Salzgitter AG produced ~5,000 tonnes of quality steel from 15,000 tonnes of Kalabagh iron ore in the presence of some international experts, and sold it to Volkswagen.

Rainer Osselmann

His father, Friedhelm Osselmann, played water polo for West Germany at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, whereas his mother, Birgit Klomp, competed in swimming at the 1956 Games.

Roland Kaiser

In the same year, he had his greatest success on the lists so far with the song "Santa Maria" (by Oliver Onions/Guido & Maurizio De Angelis), which maintained its first placement in West Germany for six weeks.

Rüdiger Henning

Henning won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, as a member of the rowing team from West Germany.

Supranational union

This declaration of principles that included their judgement for the necessary future developments was signed by Konrad Adenauer (West Germany), Paul van Zeeland, Joseph Meurice (Belgium) Robert Schuman (France) Count Sforza (Italy) Joseph Bech (Luxembourg) and Dirk Stikker, Jan van den Brink (The Netherlands).

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.

#November 1967 - November 1970, reconnaissance intelligence staff officer, 497th Reconnaissance Technical Group, Wiesbaden-Schierstein, West Germany

Tony Gubba

This was the era when John Motson and Barry Davies were the BBC's senior commentators so Gubba rarely got to commentate on games at the highest level, but notable matches he covered were the 1986 World Cup semi-final between France and West Germany, the 1992 Olympic Final, the 1996 Charity Shield and the 2007 League Cup final.

Trabbi Goes to Hollywood

But by the time his invention is perfected, East and West Germany are reunited, rendering the Trabbi's use as an escape vehicle obsolete.

Viktor Chanov

He was yet again a reserve for the USSR at Euro 88 in West Germany, appearing once as a 69th-minute substitute against the Republic of Ireland after Dasaev was injured while making a challenge on Tony Galvin.

Villas-Bôas brothers

They also received the GEO prize, delivered by the president of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker, and the ex-Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt, in 1984, as a recognition for their humanitarian work.

Wiederbewaffnung

This, along with the Treaty of Paris which cemented the elements of Western European economic cooperation helped to integrate post-war West Germany into European life.

Wolf Biermann

In 1977, he was joined in West Germany by his wife at the time, actress Eva-Maria Hagen and her daughter Catharina (Nina Hagen).