On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 16:02 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote in > <202009212255.08lmtpsp078...@repo.freebsd.org>: > |Author: grog > |Date: Mon Sep 21 22:55:51 2020 > |New Revision: 365984 > |URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365984 > | > |Log: > | Remove claim that Allied Forces created "West Germany" in > 1953. I can > | find no historic substantiation for such a claim. The Federal > | Republic of Germany was created by Germans on 23 May 1949, as > also > | noted in this file. > > I could imagine it was Konrad Adenauer (chancellor at that time) > refusing (let aside western war winners) the Sowjet offer to > reunite Germany shall Germany henceforth exist as a "neutral > state" in the same sense as Switzerland claims to be neutral. > He refused, instead forward looking to rearm the German army. > That is, turning Germany to a part of the Western Alliance > explicitly and willingly. Or was that in 1949? Hm. > >
And this is why I agree with Cy and Conrad that we should not be trying to be wikipedia lite. -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
