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unusual facts about West-Germany



1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

Ammeldingen an der Our

Ammeldingen an der Our is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Anton Thraen

Anton Karl Thraen (17 January 1843 in Holungen – 18 February 1902 in Dingelstädt) was a German astronomer and named two minor planets, 442 Eichsfeldia and 443 Photographica.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Bodenrode-Westhausen

Bodenrode-Westhausen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza

The Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza is a botanical garden located at Kurpromenade 5b, Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

California State Route 20

Its west end is at SR 1 in Fort Bragg, from where it heads east past Clear Lake, Colusa, Yuba City, Marysville, and Nevada City to I-80 near Emigrant Gap, where eastbound traffic can continue on other routes to Lake Tahoe or Nevada.

Calumet, Lexington

Its boundaries are Viley Road to the west, Versailles Road to the south, New Circle Road to the north, and Wolf Run Creek to the east.

Charles H. Wacker

His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany.

Coggabata

Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, (with the modern name of Drumburgh) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava (Burgh by Sands) to the east and Mais (Bowness on Solway) to the west.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

Dillington House

Designed by Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Purcell Miller Tritton, the building won the 2010 South-West Region Architecture Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

East Oak Lane, Philadelphia

East Oak Lane is defined by the borders of Cheltenham Avenue at the north (the border between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township), Broad Street on the west, Godfrey Avenue at the south, and the Tacony Creek to the east.

Ferdinand Gregorovius

He eventually returned to Germany, where he died in Munich.

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

Hammoor

Hammoor is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Harry Trout

Harry E. Trout, head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, 1903

Henk van den Breemen

The “Gang of five”, as they were called when the pamphlet was presented in Washington DC (January 2008), consisted of General (ret.) John Shalikashvili (USA), General (ret.) Dr. Klaus Naumann (Germany), Admiral (ret.) Jacques Lanxade and Field Marshal the Lord Inge (UK).

Hinohara, Tokyo

Communities surrounding Hinohara are: to the east, Hachiōji and Akiruno and, to the north, (Okutama) in Tokyo; to the west, Fujino in Kanagawa Prefecture; and to the south, Uenohara in Yamanashi Prefecture.

History of Kathmandu

Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as the Kangra – the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and driven the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).

Hüttingen an der Kyll

Hüttingen an der Kyll is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Jack Robert Nuzum

Judge Jack R. Nuzum was married for nearly a half century to Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004), the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia and interviewer of U.S. Presidents.

John Scott, Jr.

Scott entered the coaching ranks in 2001 as a defensive line coach at West Davidson High School in Tyro, North Carolina.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

Karasburg West

Karasburg West is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.

Khabarovsk Krai

According to various Chinese and Korean records, the southern part of Khabarovsk Krai was originally occupied one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes and the Black Water Mohe tribes living respectively on the west and the east of the Bureinsky and the Malyi Khingan ranges.

Konstanz

Konstanz station is served by the Upper Rhine Railway running west to Singen with connections to all parts of Germany, and the Etzwilen–Konstanz line running south into Switzerland, connecting to major routes at Weinfelden.

Kosobudy

Kosobudy, Szczecinek County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)

Libertas Germany

In March 2009 the foundation of Libertas Germany was disclosed at a press conference in Berlin.

Louisiana Highway 88

From the west, LA 88 begins at an intersection with LA 89 located at a point in northwestern Iberia Parish known as Lozes.

Luise von Ploennies

Luise von Ploennies (7 November 1803 – 22 January 1872) was a German poet born at Hanau, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler.

Łężek

Łężek, Sławno County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Nutteln

Nutteln is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oeschebüttel

Oeschebüttel is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Podstolice

Podstolice, Chodzież County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

Rantrum

Rantrum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schloss Favorite

Lustschloss Favorite (Mainz), baroque chateaux that existed between 1722 and 1793 in Mainz, Germany

Stansbury Mountains

Interstate 80 lies at the north end of the range at Timpie, connecting Delle west to Burmester east.

Stephan Breuing

Stephan Breuing (born September 21, 1985 in Bochum) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2005.

STN Atlas

STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations.

Temples of the Beqaa Valley

Thirdly a group in the area west of a line drawn along the ridge of Mount Lebanon that includes Makam Er-Rab, Sfire, Kasr Naous, Amyioun, Bziza, Batroun, Edde, Mashnaka, Yanuh, Afka, Kalaat Fakra, Kalaa, Sarba, Antoura, Deir el-Kalaa, Shheem and the coastal plains of Beirut, Byblos, Sidon, Tripoli, Lebanon and Tyre.

The Colditz Story

It is based on the book written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle.

The Fatherland

Having been born in Munich, Germany, and moved to New York City in 1896, Viereck graduated from the College of the City of New York and directly entered the world of publishing.

Tikunata

It is located in the Puno Region, Puno Province, Capachica District, between the peninsula Capachica in the east and the island Amantani in the west.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Determined to fight the West and quash dissent among the North Korean populace, Jung attacks some of North Korea's largest cities, such as Sinpo and Hyesan.

Walter Arendt

Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).


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1954 FIFA World Cup

The final scene of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film The Marriage of Maria Braun takes place during the finals of the 1954 World Cup; in the scene's background, the sports announcer is celebrating West Germany's victory and shouting "Deutschland ist wieder was!" (Germany is something again); the film uses this as the symbol of Germany's recovery from the ravages of the Second World War.

1955 Altensteig mid-air collision

The Altensteig mid-air collision was on the 11 August 1955 when two United States Air Force Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcars collided and crashed three miles from Altensteig in West Germany.

1965–66 West Ham United F.C. season

Bobby Moore managed to lift one trophy later that summer as fellow Hammers Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters secured England's World Cup triumph, with goals against West Germany.

2nd Medical Regiment

The Regiment is based at the Bergen-Hohne garrison situated in north west Germany as part of the British Forces Germany (BFG).

32d Intelligence Squadron

As a result, the 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing was relocated to Ramstein Air Base, West Germany.

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.

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.

Bodo Illgner

In the semifinal, Illgner saved a Stuart Pearce shot in the penalty shootout against England, and West Germany would overcome Argentina in the deciding game, where he would keep a clean sheet (1–0).

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.

Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany

In May 1949, the German Grundgesetz, the new constitution, was passed and control of West Germany passed officially into German hands.

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.

Crusade for Freedom

Leaping Lena was a homing pigeon, reported lost in early August, 1954 during a routine flight in West Germany, and then found again bearing an anti-Communist note signed "Unbowed Pilsen." She was flown to the United States, and treated as a Cold War hero.

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.

Daria Semegen

Born in Bamberg, West Germany of Ukrainian heritage, Semegen pursued an academic career in music, earning her MA from Yale University in 1971; she has studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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.

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.

Emil i Lönneberga

When the book was published in West Germany in the 1960s, another "Emil" was already well known in children's literature, the boy Emil Tischbein in Erich Kästner's "Emil und die Detektive" from the 1920s.

Fort Jeanne d'Arc

The site was designated the Moselle Common Area Control (MCAC), and provided air traffic control for a portion of Northeastern France and adjoining areas of Luxembourg and West Germany, along with approach control for four USAF bases as well as a flight plan service for RCAF Station Grostenquin.

Garden Egg chair

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

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975

West Germany (performing under the banner Germany) was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975, held in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jochen Behle

Jochen Behle (born 7 July 1960 in Korbach, Hesse) is a former (West) German cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 1998.

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

No. 421 Squadron RCAF

In 1962 it was equipped with CF-104 Starfighters and in 1967 the squadron moved to Zweibrücken Air Base becoming part of 1 Air Division RCAF (later renamed 1 Canadian Air Group) based at CFB Baden-Soellingen, 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.

Operation Hajji Baba

Air Transport Squadron and 1629th Support Squadron at Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany, to take part in the

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.

Peg Belson

These contacts included Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Finland, West Germany, Denmark, Japan, China, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia.

Pentacon Six

The Exakta 66 is based on the Pentacon Six but was made in West Germany by Exakta GmbH, Nuremberg.

People Are People

In West Germany the song was a #1 hit and was used as the theme to West German TV's coverage of the 1984 Olympics, alluding to East Germany's participation in the Soviet-led boycott of the games.

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.

Raisa Smetanina

In particular, Smetanina won two gold and one silver medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there, along with Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany.

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.

Royal 22nd Regiment

Company from the 1st Battalion, then based at CFB Lahr, West Germany as part of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group served in Doha, Qatar providing airfield security from 24 December 1990 to the end of March 1991.

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.

The Simulacra

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (der Alte, "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android).

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.