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11 unusual facts about West Germany


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.

Douglas B-66 Destroyer

RB-66s were used as the major night photo-reconnaissance aircraft of the USAF during this time, many examples serving with tactical reconnaissance squadrons based in the United Kingdom and in West Germany.

Franziska Liebing

Franziska Liebing (6 February 1901 – 4 August 1989) was a Swedish-born actress who for most of her career was based in West Germany.

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.

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.

Israeli legislative election, 1955

The eighth government collapsed when Ben-Gurion resigned again on 5 July 1959 after Labour Unity and Mapam had voted against the government on the issue of selling arms to West Germany and refused to leave the coalition.

Lafoole University

"The Lafoole College" had two high schools, one regular secondary school and the other, a technical training school supported by West Germany.

Moltke-class battlecruiser

The Turkish government attempted to preserve the ship as a museum, including an offer to West Germany to sell the ship back in 1963, but none of the efforts were successful.

Umm Qasr

The port facilities were built by a consortium of companies from West Germany, Sweden and Lebanon, with a railway line connecting it to Basra and Baghdad.

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.


1976 Winter Olympics medal table

Alpine skier Rosi Mittermaier won the women's downhill and slalom events to give West Germany's two gold medals in these Games.

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.

Alf Garnett

Alf was horrified by this and he and Mike rarely got along, the only time they did was when they both went to the 1966 World Cup Final, England vs. West Germany.

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).

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in 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.

C-Netz

The Radio Telephone Network C (German: Funktelefonnetz-C, abbreviated as C-Netz), was a first generation analog cellular phone system deployed and operated in Germany (at first West Germany) by DeTeMobil (formerly of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, currently Deutsche Telekom).

Christoph Herle

Christoph Herle (born 19 November 1955 in Königstein im Taunus, Hessen) is a retired West German long-distance runner who specialized in the 10000 metres and cross-country running.

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.

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt (born June 8, 1967, Gedern) was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke.

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.

FIL European Luge Championships 1973

The FIL European Luge Championships 1973 took place in Königssee, West Germany for the second consecutive year and third time overall (1967, 1972).

FIL European Luge Championships 1977

The FIL European Luge Championships 1977 took place in Königssee, West Germany for a record fourth time after hosting the event previously in 1967, 1972, and 1973.

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.

Friedrich Gollwitzer

In 1964 the public prosecutor's office in Amberg (West Germany) started an inquiry against Gollwitzer over his alleged involvement in war crimes.

Göttingen Manifesto

The Göttingen Manifesto was a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany (among them the Nobel laureates Otto Hahn, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Max von Laue) against arming the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons in the 1950s, the early part of the Cold War, as the West German government under chancellor Adenauer had suggested.

Großes Bruch

After World War II the historical frontier between the former Halberstadt territory within the Prussian Province of Saxony (except for Hornburg and Roklum) in the south and the Brunswick lands (except for Hessen and Pabstorf) in the south along the Großes Bruch became the Inner German Border between West and East Germany.

Hannelore Possmoser

She won the silver medal in the women's singles at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

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-Joachim Walde

Hans-Joachim Walde (born 28 June 1942; died 18 April 2013 in Jever) was a West German track and field athlete who competed mainly in the decathlon.

Hans-Otto Schumacher

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

Heinfried Birlenbach

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

Heinrich Windelen

He came as a refugee to West Germany following The Expulsion in 1945, and became a member of the CDU in 1946.

Hermann Küppel

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

Hermann Mayr

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

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.

Jim Finney

Later he was selected as one of the English referees at the 1966 World Cup, gaining some notoriety there for his handling of the Uruguay versus West Germany quarter-final in which he sent off Horacio Troche and Héctor Silva.

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.

Maritza Sáenz Ryan

Sáenz Ryan was assigned to the 1st Armored Division Artillery in Nuremberg, West Germany.

Norbert Kuchinke

From 1973, Kuchinke was the first correspondent of Der Spiegel (Hamburg, West Germany) and Stern in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Orest Romashyna

Orest Romashyna (born October 27, 1946 in Rheine, West Germany) is a German-Canadian former ice hockey left winger.

Oscar Ramjeet

from the University of the West Indies, a Caribbean Legal Education Certificate, and a diploma in journalism and public relations from 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.

Skënder Hyka

His only senior appearance came on 8 April 1967 against West Germany in Dortmund, a game which Albania lost 6-0 thanks to four goals by Gerd Müller and a double by Hannes Löhr.

The Wrong Move

Travelling from place to place about West Germany, Meister gathers an odd cast of friends, and winds up alone on the Zugspitze.

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.

Vladimir Estragon

Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.

Walter Kempowski

In several more books he completed the story of his family from the early 20th century into the late 1950s, when he was released from an East German prison in Bautzen where, accused of spying for the US military forces in West Germany, he had been incarcerated for eight years.

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.

Werner Lueg

Werner Lueg (born 16 September 1931 in Brackwede, near Bielefeld) is a former West German middle distance runner who equalised Lennart Strand's and Gunder Hägg's 1500 m world record in 3:43.0 min in Berlin in 1952.

Zenon Snylyk

After the war, the Snylyk family fled to Mittenwald, West Germany where they lived in a displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949.

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

In the 1972 Games, hosted in Heidelberg, West Germany, she won a gold medal in javelin with a new world record of 18.5 metres, and also won a silver medal in the shot put.