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- This Day In Israel's History
On March 14th, 1965, 20 years after the end of WW2 and the Holocaust, Israel establishes diplomatic relations with West Germany. Israel’s significant population growth during its first five years of statehood caused a large strain on the economy which resulted in the rationing of basic necessities. As a result, reparations from West Germany, which began in 1952, helped ease these measures, which remained throughout the 1950s.
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