| Germany is not a successor state to West Germany. It is the same country. East Germany and West Germany did not combine to become a new country. East Germany joined West Germany. Imagine not counting movies (or whatever) made by the USA before Hawaii joined it as a state. By the way, the name "West Germany" is an English term, it was never the name of the country. We have always been called Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany), and that never changed when "East Germany" (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) failed as a state and joined the rest of Germany. |