History UsefulNotes / WestGermany

West Germany had the legacy of the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to deal with. They implemented a NoSwastikas policy and banned all vaguely Nazi organisations. West Germany also became a pretty peaceful nation, not getting involved in any foreign wars. This didn't stop UsefulNotes/EastGermany from calling them fascists on a regular basis; the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall was called "''der antifaschistische Schutzwall''," literally meaning "the Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier." The GDR regime also had a field day any time when real or supposed connections of high ranking West German officials to the Nazi Era became public and they often leaked documents from Soviet Archives or the likes to the press themselves to land a propaganda coup. That said, the GDR itself had quite a few old Nazis in high ranks of army state and party in the 1950s and early 1960s.[[note]]For both nations, FridgeLogic has to come into play. The vast majority of Germans of legal age in 1949, and virtually all who would have the knowledge, skill set and experience to run major governmental institutions, would have had at least a tangential relationship to the Hitler regime, the only exceptions being political exiles or those imprisoned by the regime for being of other political parties. So there was no escaping the reality in either FRG or GDR that complete denazification of the newly-minted governments was not practical absent letting the Occupation powers run things for a generation or two. That said, it was often more of a ''hindrance'' for a post-war career to have been an exile or imprisoned during the Nazi era, especially in the West. Sometimes the same judges that had ruled to take away rights or property from dissidents ruled after the war that they had no right to restitution.[[/note]]

Called "the Bonn Republic" these days by historians, the Federal Republic of Germany (''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'') was a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an state formed out of three of the occupation zones of UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} in the aftermath of the defeat of the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the other becoming UsefulNotes/EastGermany under occupation by the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. This didn't happen overnight - the British and American zones were merged, informally very quickly after the war and more formally combined into something called at the time "the Bizone" or "Bizonia" by 1948 or so, with the French zone allowed in just before the formation of the Bundesrepublik itself in 1949. The Saarland, separately occupied and disputed by UsefulNotes/{{France}}, joined in 1957 after the residents were allowed to vote on which country they wanted to be part of. This is sometimes referred to in modern times as the ''kleine Wiedervereinigung'' ("Little Reunification").

* ''Series/{{Tatort}}'' until 1990. The series and its East German counterpart ''Polizeiruf 110'' started in 1970 and 1971 respectively. [[LongRunner Both are still airing]] as of the early 2020s.

* ''The ODESSA File''

On another cultural note, the West Germans also managed to create a brilliant national soccer team, winning UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup in 1954, 1974, and 1990 (just before reunification). The win in 1954, against Hungary, was a massive boost to West German pride (which until then had been rather shaky), and was seen as a moral victory for the West over the Soviet bloc.

Older sources will sometimes refer to this place as simply "[[JustForFun/OneMarioLimit Germany]]", possibly due to the feeling that this was the ''real'' Germany- the other one was just CommieLand with Germans. (This is similar to how UsefulNotes/SouthKorea is sometimes referred to as just "Korea", based on much the same attitude about UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.) Bonn itself felt that for a while, refusing to recognise any country bar the USSR that had any relations with the GDR until Willy Brandt's ''Neue Ostpolitik'' of the 1970s. The two Germanys recognised each other (but not completely: for example, no ambassadors, but ''[[InsistentTerminology permanent representatives]]'' [Ständige Vertretung] – this would become important in 1990) and joined the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations together.

West Germany had the legacy of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]] to deal with. They implemented a NoSwastikas policy and banned all vaguely Nazi organisations. West Germany also became a pretty peaceful nation, not getting involved in any foreign wars. This didn't stop UsefulNotes/EastGermany from calling them fascists on a regular basis; the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall was called "''der antifaschistische Schutzwall''," literally meaning "the Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier." The GDR regime also had a field day any time when real or supposed connections of high ranking West German officials to the Nazi Era became public and they often leaked documents from Soviet Archives or the likes to the press themselves to land a propaganda coup. That said, the GDR itself had quite a few old Nazis in high ranks of army state and party in the 1950s and early 1960s.[[note]]For both nations, FridgeLogic has to come into play. The vast majority of Germans of legal age in 1949, and virtually all who would have the knowledge, skill set and experience to run major governmental institutions, would have had at least a tangential relationship to the Hitler regime, the only exceptions being political exiles or those imprisoned by the regime for being of other political parties. So there was no escaping the reality in either FRG or GDR that complete denazification of the newly-minted governments was not practical absent letting the Occupation powers run things for a generation or two. That said, it was often more of a ''hindrance'' for a post-war career to have been an exile or imprisoned during the Nazi era, especially in the West. Sometimes the same judges that had ruled to take away rights or property from dissidents ruled after the war that they had no right to restitution.[[/note]]

Called "the Bonn Republic" these days by historians, the Federal Republic of Germany (''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'') was formed out of three of the occupation zones of UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} in the aftermath of the defeat of the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the other becoming UsefulNotes/EastGermany under occupation by the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]]. This didn't happen overnight - the British and American zones were merged, informally very quickly after the war and more formally combined into something called at the time "the Bizone" or "Bizonia" by 1948 or so, with the French zone allowed in just before the formation of the Bundesrepublik itself in 1949. The Saarland, separately occupied and disputed by UsefulNotes/{{France}}, joined in 1957 after the residents were allowed to vote on which country they wanted to be part of. This is sometimes referred to in modern times as the ''kleine Wiedervereinigung'' ("Little Reunification").

Called "the Bonn Republic" these days by historians, the Federal Republic of Germany (''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'') was formed out of three of the occupation zones of UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} in the aftermath of the defeat of the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the other becoming UsefulNotes/EastGermany. This didn't happen overnight - the British and American zones were merged, informally very quickly after the war and more formally combined into something called at the time "the Bizone" or "Bizonia" by 1948 or so, with the French zone allowed in just before the formation of the Bundesrepublik itself in 1949. The Saarland, separately occupied and disputed by UsefulNotes/{{France}}, joined in 1957 after the residents were allowed to vote on which country they wanted to be part of. This is sometimes referred to in modern times as the ''kleine Wiedervereinigung'' ("Little Reunification").

* The first act of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' takes place in late 1980s Düsseldorf, appropriately with a family massacre involving an East German defector. While the rest of the story takes place in UsefulNotes/TheBerlinRepublic, the echoes of the UsefulNotes/TheColdWar remain omnipresent.

* The first act of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' takes place in late 1980s Düsseldorf, appropriately with a family massacre involving an East German defector. While the rest of the story takes place in UsefulNotes/TheBerlinRepublic, the echoes of the ColdWar remain omnipreent.

Called '''the Bonn Republic''' these days by historians, the Federal Republic of Germany (''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'') was formed out of three of the occupation zones of UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} in the aftermath of the defeat of the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}}s in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the other becoming UsefulNotes/EastGermany. This didn't happen overnight - the British and American zones were merged, informally very quickly after the war and more formally combined into something called at the time "the Bizone" or "Bizonia" by 1948 or so, with the French zone allowed in just before the formation of the Bundesrepublik itself in 1949. The Saarland, separately occupied and disputed by UsefulNotes/{{France}}, joined in 1957 after the residents were allowed to vote on which country they wanted to be part of. This is sometimes referred to in modern times as the ''kleine Wiedervereinigung'' ("Little Reunification").