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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 476372, member: 7724"]age is a bit complicated. 1945 to 1949 "made in US zone". then the hoolabaloo starts...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>companies that wanted to sell to US personel and army people kept the "US zone" to make their new "friends" feel more at home longer than factories that wanted to sell on the open market, sometimes well into the 50s.</p><p>after 1949 they were free to use Made in Germany/West Germany/Western Germany/W.Germany as they please, BUT a simple Made in Germany was scarcely used to show that the products didn't come from the Soviet zone. </p><p>legislation discussions about Made in Germany started in 1973 only and the high court in the west ruled against the producers in the west that had asked to prohibit the marking of GDR products as Made in Germany; it had to be accepted that the east marked as Made in Germany as well - which was logic because the goal of a re-united Germany was standing against it.</p><p>comes another thing to think about. when were those stickers showing up ? in my experience not before 1953 - 1955.</p><p>so all in all I'd put it into the 1950s drawer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 476372, member: 7724"]age is a bit complicated. 1945 to 1949 "made in US zone". then the hoolabaloo starts...:) companies that wanted to sell to US personel and army people kept the "US zone" to make their new "friends" feel more at home longer than factories that wanted to sell on the open market, sometimes well into the 50s. after 1949 they were free to use Made in Germany/West Germany/Western Germany/W.Germany as they please, BUT a simple Made in Germany was scarcely used to show that the products didn't come from the Soviet zone. legislation discussions about Made in Germany started in 1973 only and the high court in the west ruled against the producers in the west that had asked to prohibit the marking of GDR products as Made in Germany; it had to be accepted that the east marked as Made in Germany as well - which was logic because the goal of a re-united Germany was standing against it. comes another thing to think about. when were those stickers showing up ? in my experience not before 1953 - 1955. so all in all I'd put it into the 1950s drawer.[/QUOTE]
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