West Germany

"Due to the Russian invasion of Germany, it divided once again since the Cold War started when the two Germanies divided it while one is being transitioned from a fascist military dictatorship into a democracy, and the other one is being tranisitioned to into a communist country."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Brüder Gegen Brüder

Germany (German: West Deutschland, pronounced [ˈvest ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. During this Cold War era, NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border. After 1961 West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall. This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and split into five states, which then joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city-state of Berlin. With the reunification of West and East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to sixteen states, became known simply as "Germany." This period is referred to as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) by historians, alluding to the interwar Weimar Republic and the post-reunification Berlin Republic.