From the outset, the structures that eventually became the EU were characterized by agreements brokered between elites, beginning with the European Coal and Steel Community drawn up by the political classes of West Germany, France, and a smattering of other states in the wake of World War..…

Soviet Union and their East German puppet rulers made that very plain it was to keep people in, to prevent East Germans and East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin and West Germany.. ..…

Harry Truman warned US Congress of the terrible threat of aggression from Soviet Union across Atlantic, NATO alliance was preparing to accept West Germany.. awareness of the other Europe bound the rest of the West together too, helping to keep Germany and Italy and..…

After the war, Germany had been occupied by U.S., UK, and French troops in the West, and by Soviet troops in the East. ... These forces continued to rule West Germany after the war, including BASF.. ..…

She was born in Badconnstat, Germany, to Gaylin W. Thomas and Pamela LuEllen Peterson Thomas. . ..…