User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/A blog post./@comment-1616397-20091022174355

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention this: that 1949 citation for Germany and Italy still being in a technical state of war sounds correct. Remember that there was no real government in Germany between 1945 and the foundation of the Federal Republic in 1949, therefore no one to sign peace treaties with. Once the Federal Republic was formed, it signed peace treaties with belligerent nations who were not an Occupying Force like Italy. The situation with the GDR was different; it signed its own peace treaties. So, you could actually have a situation where Ludwig and Feliciano were at peace, but Gilbert was still awesomely at war with Feli (assuming Gilbert was GDR).