Subject: End of Occupation of Germany - 50th Anniv. today
Date: May 06, 2005 @ 03:12
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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The German post office issued a commemorative stamp today (5.5.05)
honoring the Treaties of Paris which ended the allied occupation
statute and returned considerable sovereignty to W. Germany (Berlin
remained occupied).

We were coincidentally discussing the status of bases the other day,
so this seemed appropriate to post - I uploaded a photo of the stamp
(photo 69 in the photo library - "End of O...").

LN