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Adenauer's support of the state of [[Israel]] and its agreement to pay compensation to that country as well as to individual victims of the Nazi [[Holocaust]], which made it difficult to doubt West Germany's good intentions.
Adenauer's support of the state of [[Israel]] and its agreement to pay compensation to that country as well as to individual victims of the Nazi [[Holocaust]], which made it difficult to doubt West Germany's good intentions.
====Germany rearmament====
====German rearmament====
The 1954 Treaties of Paris established the participation of the FRG in NATO and its rearmament. The new army that would make West Germany the strongest Central European power was formed according to traditional concepts. After President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] adopted the New Look policy aimed at reducing conventional forces and making nuclear arms the central element both of deterrence and defense in case of war, the German military remained bound to the old system, which envisioned fighting off a Soviet invasion through the "Fulda Gap" in central Germany. In 1956 the United States planned to drastically reduce its armed forces and strengthen American nuclear superiority. Adenauer then understood that his country would be in a position of disparity in the Atlantic alliance as a member without nuclear arms. Hoping that the availability of nuclear weapons would increase deterrence, he supported the assignment of nuclear warheads to West Germany by the United States.
The 1954 Treaties of Paris established the participation of the FRG in NATO and its rearmament. The new army that would make West Germany the strongest Central European power was formed according to traditional concepts. After President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] adopted the New Look policy aimed at reducing conventional forces and making nuclear arms the central element both of deterrence and defense in case of war, the German military remained bound to the old system, which envisioned fighting off a Soviet invasion through the "Fulda Gap" in central Germany. In 1956 the United States planned to drastically reduce its armed forces and strengthen American nuclear superiority. Adenauer then understood that his country would be in a position of disparity in the Atlantic alliance as a member without nuclear arms. Hoping that the availability of nuclear weapons would increase deterrence, he supported the assignment of nuclear warheads to West Germany by the United States.
====European Unity====
====European Unity====
In negotiating the Schuman Plan to create the European Coal and Steel Community from 1950 to 1952, the key figures - [[Jean Monnet]], [[Robert Schuman]], and Adenauer- battled determinedly and effectively both for the ideal of a new era of Franco-German understanding and for pragmatic economic political interests of both countries.
In negotiating the Schuman Plan to create the European Coal and Steel Community from 1950 to 1952, the key figures - [[Jean Monnet]], [[Robert Schuman]], and Adenauer- battled determinedly and effectively both for the ideal of a new era of Franco-German understanding and for pragmatic economic political interests of both countries.