Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The excentric flashback

Flashbacks. Of course we, being conscious of historical events in the past, like flashbacks very much. 16 years ago the wall fell, I think we all remember that by now. But what about the news 43 years ago? Or 23? I picked a random number, like 50, and there you go, regard it either as a piece of useless information or add it to your notional drawer of things to remember:
9th November 1955:
1) There were fierce protests of customers against the planned rise of milk prices. So the government (in Bonn at that time) decided not to raise the prices. But to satisfy the demands of the farmers it was agreed upon a subsidization of 43 million DM monthly from 1956. Wow, the folk 50 years ago had some influence!
2) The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe decided that the 75 000 Austrians living in Germany who acquired the German nationality when Austria became part of Germany in 1938, should now lose their German citizenship with the sovereignity of the Republic of Austria. Hm, 1955, that's quite late for Austria to become a sovereign state. Anyway, their 20 cent coins show the castle called Belvedere where the contract of sovereignity was signed.. how sweet, I always wondered what that building was about.

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