Question: When did the country aligned with Germany by Blondi's owner become an Ally in WWII?

the foundation for the influential position held by germany today was laid during the wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) of the 1950s when west germany rose from the enormous destruction wrought by world war ii to become the world's third - largest economy. the first chancellor konrad adenauer, who remained in office until 1963, had worked for a full alignment with nato rather than neutrality. he not only secured a membership in nato but was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present - day european union. when the g6 was established in 1975, there was no question whether the federal republic of germany would be a member as well. <SEP> Following the Allied victory in the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states. The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and along with Mussolini's Italy sought to gain control of the continent by the Second World War. The major non-communist Southern European countries joined a US-led military alliance (NATO) and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves. The countries in the Soviet sphere of influence joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact and the economic bloc called Comecon. Yugoslavia was neutal. <SEP> In July 1943, following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Benito Mussolini was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, provoking a civil war. The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions were often heavily influenced by external factors. The imperial ambitions of the Fascist regime, which aspired to restore the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Mediterranean (the Mare Nostrum, or the Italian Empire), were partially met with the annexation of Albania and the Province of Ljubljana, and the occupation of British Somaliland and other territories, but ultimately collapsed after defeats in the East and North African campaigns. Italy surrendered to the Allies at the end of the Italian Campaign. The northern half of the country was occupied by Germans with the fascists help and made a collaborationist puppet state (with more than 600,000 soldiers), while the south was governed by monarchist and liberal forces, which fought for the Allied cause as the Italian Co-Belligerent Army (at its height numbering more than 50,000 men), helped by circa 350,000 partisans of disparate political ideologies that operated all over Italy. <SEP> Dogs like Blondi were coveted as "", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during the Nazi era. Blondi played a role in Nazi propaganda by portraying Hitler as an animal lover. On 29 April 1945, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, who died as a result. <SEP> klaipėda (german: memel), an important seaport in east prussia, was detached from germany by article 28 of the treaty of versailles and was governed by the allies according to article 99. france assumed administration of the region while lithuania continued to lobby for its control, claiming that it should belong to lithuania as it had a significant lithuanian population (see lithuania minor) and was that country's only access to the baltic sea. poland also laid claim to the territory. as the allies were hesitant to make a decision and it seemed that the region would remain a free state much like the free city of danzig, lithuania took the initiative and organized the klaipėda revolt in january 1923. soviet russia and germany supported the action. the region, as an autonomous territory with its own parliament (klaipėda parliament), was attached to lithuania. the region covered about 2,400 km² and had a population of approximately 140,000.during the 1920s, lithuania and germany maintained a relatively normal relationship as they were united by anti-polish sentiment. in january 1928, after long and difficult negotiations, germany and lithuania signed a border treaty, which left klaipėda on the lithuanian side. however, tensions began rising in the 1930s after the weimar republic was replaced with nazi germany. an especially tense period came in february 1934 when the lithuanian government arrested dozens of pro-nazi activists. in response to these arrests and trials, germany declared a boycott of lithuanian agricultural imports. the boycott caused an economic crisis in suvalkija (southern lithuania), where farmers organized violent protests. however, after the plebiscite in saar most of the pro-nazi prisoners received amnesty. in the wake of the amnesties, lithuanian prestige suffered both abroad and in klaipėda, allowing germany to strengthen its influence in the region.