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11 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.

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.

Sha'ari Tadin

He was also a special guest of the Governments of West Germany, Japan and France in 1972, 1974, 1975 respectively.

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.


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.

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.

1990 World Women's Handball Championship

The championship was held after the German reunification, but East and West Germany participated separately.

582nd Air Resupply and Communications Wing

The 582d was assigned directly to Third Air Force and provided the bulk of its air support to the Army 10th Special Forces Group, which had been transferred in total from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Bad Tölz, West Germany.

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.

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.

Balthasar Schwarm

Balthasar Schwarm (born 11 September 1946 in Bruckmühl, Bavaria) is a West German former luger who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.

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.

Dieter Burdenski

Looking for decent goalkeepers to someday succeed ageing Sepp Maier in the West Germany goal, Helmut Schön turned his attention to the Werder Bremen man in 1977, handing Burdenski his first of altogether 12 caps in a friendly in Montevideo against Uruguay.

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.

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Official censorship tightened its grip over the media, and the import of the men's magazines Playboy, Penthouse and Lui, as well as the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, was banned because they offended “morality and proper behavior”.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

History of Williamsburg, Virginia

At the end of the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz read to the press a statement confirming the deployment of American Pershing II-nuclear rockets in West Germany later in 1983.

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.

Jakob Kaiser

In 1947 during the Ahlen conference – a joint conference of West and East German CDU leaders – Kaiser's plan of nationalisation of key industries and other moderate leftwing ideas were adopted by the party.

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.

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.

Maritza Sáenz Ryan

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

Martin Jellinghaus

Martin Jellinghaus (born 26 October 1944 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, Bayern) is a West German former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

Mercedes-Benz W108

When its tires were punctured by a trap, Bond famously drove the car along a railway track in pursuit of a train carrying Octopussy's circus across the West/East German border (although the scenes were actually filmed in Cambridgeshire, England), and just before reaching the border Bond managed to jump upon the train just before the car collided head-on with another train and was sent flying into a river.

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.

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.

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.

The Survivors Live

It was recorded on April 23, 1981 in Böblingen, near Stuttgart, West Germany, when all three singers, who had been labelmates at Sun Records at the beginning of their careers, were touring Europe.

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.

Troy Dorsey

At the W.A.K.O. World Championships 1987 in Munich, West Germany in October 1987, Dorsey again took gold in full contact kickboxing but was only able to manage silver in semi contact, losing out to Oliver Drexler in the final.

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.

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.