2005
This map
depicts the situation in 2005. In 1991 Germany was reunited after the fall of
communism in Eastern Europe. Just before reunification the allies ended their
occupation of Berlin and their theoretical supreme responsibilities for Germany
as a whole. For a short while the two German states and the two parts of Berlin
were entirely separate where International Law was concerned. After
reunification, the new Federal Republic again signed treaties with Poland and
the Soviet Union in which the post war borders were confirmed. This time not
only in the name of the old Federal Republic’s partial competence, but in name
of Germany as a whole, as the new Federal Republic asserted its position as the
sole and legal successor to the German Realm.
