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De Gaulle never forgave the Americans for having denied France a place at the victors' table in the closing stages of the Second World War, especially at the Yalta meetings between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.

Erhard had overseen Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the economic miracle that had transformed Germany from 1949 to that day

Adenauer and de Gaulle put their signature on the Elysée Treaty; a treaty that was presented to the world as the cornerstone of French-German rapprochement

The European Economic Community (EEC), as the European Union was then known, comprised Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Italy, the original six founding members and signatories of the Treaty of Rome, signed on 25 March 1957.

anticipating another anodyne meeting like all the previous ones