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916: [
880:Hof Central
846:third class
785: [
662: [
623:West Berlin
490:Wesermarsch
478:Bremerhaven
454:WĂĽrttemberg
443:Upper Hesse
439:Starkenburg
435:Rhine river
221:Preceded by
199:23 May 1949
1434:Categories
1063:2015-01-07
1039:2015-01-07
926:References
721:Hans Ehard
574:, who was
519:Under the
482:WesermĂĽnde
393:Palatinate
372:, in 1949.
364:, between
362:Mödlareuth
343:Occupation
307:, and the
185:8 May 1945
93:Government
1368:Thuringia
1153:catalogue
979:1946–1966
971:60 Jahre
905:Wiesbaden
839:Transport
748:Basic Law
688:in 1952.
670:Länderrat
537:Eichsfeld
486:Osterholz
464:(now the
420:Unterlahn
404:Kurhessen
366:Thuringia
348:Geography
87:Frankfurt
49:1945–1949
973:Die Zeit
887:Archives
871:through
856:through
684:to form
456:and the
400:Prussian
391:and the
358:Tannbach
167:Cold War
41:part of
39:American
1414:Trizone
1278:Hamburg
1273:Hanover
1212:Bavaria
1149:in the
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821:), and
680:in the
643:Bavaria
635:federal
385:Ostheim
381:Bavaria
370:Bavaria
305:US-Zone
282:Germany
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83:Capital
1411:Bizone
1398:(USSR)
1378:Berlin
1358:Saxony
1217:Bremen
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653:, and
647:Bremen
639:states
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408:Nassau
389:Lindau
295:German
115:
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1222:Hesse
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674:Baden
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525:Werra
161:Post-
1419:Rape
1116:ISBN
1101:ISBN
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833:RIAS
793:NWDR
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488:und
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