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1950
 
     
Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs        
1952
 
    
Hans Werner Henze's first full-length opera, Boulevard Solitude, has its premiere in Hanover       
1954
 
    
The German firm NSU builds the first working example of the rotary engine invented in 1924 by Felix Wankel       
1954
 
  
Relations are normalized between West Germany and the USA, France and Britain, ending the postwar period of occupation     
1955
 
    
Thomas Mann publishes a longer but still incomplete version of his novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man       
1955
 
   
Konrad Adenauer negotiates the release of the last 10,000 German prisoners of war held in the USSR      
1956
 
    
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Song of the Children combines electronic sounds and the human voice       
1956
 
    
Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King has its premiere in Berlin       
1957
 
   
Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC)      
1957
 
   
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen uses three separate orchestras to achieve acoustic space in Gruppen