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I just had a look at Andorra on Wikipedia and apparently they were officially at war with Germany from 1914 to 1958. Also Boris Skossyreff happened in 1934:
quote:In December 1933 Skossyreff obtained Andorran citizenship and after some time he presented a plan for administrative reform involving the creation of several offices to which he asked to be appointed himself. He quickly got into trouble, however, and was expelled around May 1934.
On July 12 the same year he issued a proclamation in Urgell, Spain, declaring himself Boris I, King of Andorra and "Regent for His Majesty the King of France" (though the family heads of the House of Bourbon disavowed him), and declaring war on the Bishop of Urgell, Justí Guitart i Vilardebó, the Co-Prince of Andorra. On July 20 Skossyreff was arrested by Spanish Guardia Civil and taken out of Andorra, first to Barcelona and then on July 23 to Madrid, where he was imprisoned until he was expelled from Spain in November.
Spanish authorities who held him in custody noted that he carried a Dutch passport, which indicated his date of birth as June 12, 1896. He declared himself to be a White émigré, born in Vilnius.
This account was somewhat contradicted by the publication "Spain Week by Week", which reported on 25 July 1934 that Skossyreff was a 38-year-old Jew who had been resident "for some years" in Catalonia and Majorca. This account claimed that Skossyreff had made his proclamation on July 11, not the day after, and had declared himself "Boris I, Prince of the Valleys of Andorra, Count of Orange and Baron of Skossyreff … sovereign of Andorra and defender of the faith". After pledging his allegiance to the King of France (a purely theoretical allegiance, since France has had no king since 1848), he had deposed the General Council, appointed a provisional government, promulgated a constitution and issued a Court Circular before being arrested by the Civil Guard, taken to Spain and then expelled to Portugal.
Pretty ballsy to declare war on a henchman of the Pope on the day of your coronation! But even ballsier is having this photograph taken of you as your official royal portrait:
quote:On 12 July Boris issued a proclamation declaring war on the bishop of Urgel. He also issued an official bulletin, made numerous decrees. The constitution he promoted contained seventeen articles, the longest of them being under thirty words. He also posed for official photographs and wore a monocle and a black armband in commemoration which, he stated, were for the late King Albert.
Later he would get to see his native country of Russia, first touring it with the Germans and then taken on a longer trip by the Soviets, before returning to the country that his kingdom had all that time been at war with:
quote:There were some claims (generally repeated on various websites) that he died in the camp in 1944. However, he did survive, was taken by the Nazis in 1943, and became a 'special officer' (Sonderführer) on the Eastern Front.
In 1945 he was taken by the Americans, released as not being German or a Nazi, and went to Boppard, Germany, where his wife had settled in 1944.
In 1948 he was arrested in Eisenach, Thuringia (then in the Soviet Sector of Germany, afterwards the DDR), tried and sent to Siberia.
He returned to Germany in 1956, with the rest of the surviving German POWs, taking up residence again in Boppard: he was granted a small state pension. He made some attempt to sell his memoirs, without success, but otherwise lived quietly (given his age and adventures not unsurprisingly).
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