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France–Germany relations or the Franco-German relations [a] form a part of the wider politics of the European Union. The two countries have a long – and often contentious – relationship stretching back to the Middle Ages .
The territory was then returned to France 48 years later after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The border changed again in 1941 when Nazi Germany de facto annexed the region (without international legal recognition, or treaty). The current border was re-established after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
After further negotiations, France was also granted an occupation zone in Austria. The French zone in west of that country bordered the French zone in Germany, thus creating a contiguous area of French-occupied territories (besides the aforementioned exclave of Büsingen am Hochrhein) that bordered each other and/or France itself.
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France then declared war on Germany, which prompted the German invasion and occupation of France from 1940 to 1944. [3] Afterwards, France participated in the Allied occupation of Germany from 1945 to 1949. [4] The post-war West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer made rapprochement between the historic rivals one of his priorities. [5]
The Franco-German Brigade was created on 12 January 1989. On 30 August 1993, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the designation of these forces changed to "French Forces stationed in Germany" (FFSA) and most of the forces were withdrawn to France or disbanded. [4]
John Tenniel: Au Revoir!, Punch 6 August 1881. French–German (Franco-German) enmity [1] (French: Rivalité franco-allemande, German: Deutsch–französische Erbfeindschaft) was the idea of unavoidably hostile relations and mutual revanchism between Germans (including Austrians) and French people that arose in the 16th century and became popular with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
The Aachen Treaty, formally Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation and Integration, and also known as the Treaty of Aachen (German: Aachener Vertrag, Vertrag von Aachen, French: Traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle), is a bilateral agreement between Germany and France, which entered into force on 22 January 2020, a year after it was signed. [1]