Minority problems in the German-Danish border region

[politicus]

Just a short explanation to the threshold question seen from a Danish POV.
After the war the Danish government wanted Southern Schleswig to become an autonomous state in a coming German federation. The British refused that and basically told the Danes they could either incorporate part of (or all of) Southen Schleswig, but should not interfere in how the British organized things in their occupation zone. So the larger and more economically viable S-H state was estblished, but since there are no original Danish population in Holstein, the Danes would become a small minority in this unit. It was therefore later agreed in the Copenhagen-Bonn agreements in 1955 beteween BRD and DK, that the Danish minority was exempt from the threhold, this was considered fair by both sides, since the minority could easily have passed the threshold in the Schleswig part of the state.

Its a shame they didnt formalize this argument, so the SSW/SSV would need to pass the 5% threshold in Schleswig. This would have made the exemption far harder to criticize.

(Northern Schleswig was part of DK since 1920)