 Complete the following phrase:  In May 1949 were merged and relaunched as the US-sponsored German Federal Republic West Germany. The Soviet occupation zone remained separate, and was itself relaunched as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic East Germany five months later. It was in West Germany that in 1954 Helene Rothländer came to national prominence in connection with the Geimer Affair. Her loyal commitment to the Catholic Church was again on display. Robert Geimer was a young teacher who had been conscripted into the German army in 1939, and five years later caught up in the 