West Germany founded
September 7, 1949
The Federal Republic of Germany came into being out of the American, British, and French occupation zones, with its capital in the sleepy Rhine town of Bonn. Konrad Adenauer, a former mayor of Cologne the Nazis had jailed, became the first chancellor. The Soviet zone answered by creating the German Democratic Republic a month later.
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