Former East Germany and West Germany
Former East Germany and West Germany
West Germany or West Germany was the unofficial name with which the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) was known since its founding on May 23, 1949, until German reunification in October 1990. At the beginning of the Cold War, West Germany maintained a policy of "a single Germany" through the Hallstein Doctrine, by which it did not recognize the existence of the German Democratic Republic (RDA) like independent state, nor to those states Which recognized the GDR (with the exception of the Soviet Union).