1952 treaty giving limited sovereignty to West Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bonn–Paris conventions were signed in May 1952 and came into force after the 1955 ratification. The conventions put an end to the Allied occupation of West Germany.[1]
Map of the occupation and administrative zones of Germany after the Second World War. The states of the American, British and French occupation zones founded the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, commonly known as West Germany.
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The delay between the signing and the ratification was due to the French failure to ratify the related treaty on the European Defense Community.[2] This was eventually overcome by the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden proposing that West Germany become a member of NATO and the removal of the references to the European Defense Community in the Bonn–Paris conventions. The revised treaty was signed at a ceremony in Paris on 23 October 1954.[1][3] The conventions came into force during the last meeting of the Allied High Commission, that took place in the United States Embassy in Bonn, on 5 May 1955.[1]