8h 51min, dec 26, 1952 y - Konrad Adenauer becomes the Chancellor of West Germany
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"From Washington's perspective...It was far better he claimed to have a prosperous, democratic portion of Germany closely tied to the US and to the other democracies of Wester Europe than to risk the uncertainties that any effort to unify Germany would surely involve." (Gaddis 2006, p. 135)Added to timeline:
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8h 51min, dec 26, 1952 y
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~ 73 years ago