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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:08:05 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars
Message-ID:  <b36e2d949b02393d9f64f9ddbf04977027ecd54c.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200922140214.0vHBB%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
References:  <202009212255.08LMtpSp078237@repo.freebsd.org> <20200922140214.0vHBB%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 16:02 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote in
>  <202009212255.08LMtpSp078237@repo.freebsd.org>:
>  |Author: grog
>  |Date: Mon Sep 21 22:55:51 2020
>  |New Revision: 365984
>  |URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365984
>  |
>  |Log:
>  |  Remove claim that Allied Forces created "West Germany" in
> 1953.  I can
>  |  find no historic substantiation for such a claim.  The Federal
>  |  Republic of Germany was created by Germans on 23 May 1949, as
> also
>  |  noted in this file.
> 
> I could imagine it was Konrad Adenauer (chancellor at that time)
> refusing (let aside western war winners) the Sowjet offer to
> reunite Germany shall Germany henceforth exist as a "neutral
> state" in the same sense as Switzerland claims to be neutral.
> He refused, instead forward looking to rearm the German army.
> That is, turning Germany to a part of the Western Alliance
> explicitly and willingly.  Or was that in 1949?  Hm.
> 
> 

And this is why I agree with Cy and Conrad that we should not be trying
to be wikipedia lite.

-- Ian





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