"John Godwin" wrote in message
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"Matt W. Barrow" wrote in news:E3a_i.2779
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Quite...but Berlin was not "Germany" at the time.

Neither you nor I said it was. I simply disagreed when you said
occupation
ended in the 1950s and I stated that occupation continued long after I
left
Berlin. The West German Government continued to fund sustaining allied
troops in Berlin even after occupation of West Germany ceased.

That's nice, but that was not the context of the topic (Germany at-large and
Europe in general).