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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1470812, member: 39&quot;]No, both the Federal Republic of Germany (&quot;West G.&quot;) and the German Democratic Republic (&quot;East G.&quot;) were founded in 1949 - four years after WW2. But this medal has nothing to do with that ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Waldshuter Chilbi&quot; is a festival in Waldshut-Tiengen. It reminds of the &quot;guild&quot; of bachelors - young men who are not (yet) married. <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldshuter_Chilbi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldshuter_Chilbi" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldshuter_Chilbi</a> In 1468 they defended the city of Waldshut against the Swiss. In 1948 several former Junggesellen set their own club (within the Chilbi) up <a href="http://www.junggesellen.de/index.php/junggesellen-2/ehemalige/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.junggesellen.de/index.php/junggesellen-2/ehemalige/" rel="nofollow">http://www.junggesellen.de/index.php/junggesellen-2/ehemalige/</a> which had its 30th anniversary in, ta-daa, 1978. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Edit: Note that each link takes you to a German language page.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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