offrey Day. Relations between the occupiers and the people of Osnabr�ck were generally peaceful, though tensions existed; some small fights broke out between British soldiers and local youths and some Osnabr�ckers resented the relationships that developed between the occupiers and local women. Additionally, the British took over more than seventy homes for their own use by the middle of 1946. Amidst shortages, the black market thrived and became a main focus of police activity.
After World War II, when West Germany realigned its states, the city became part of the new state of Lower Saxony in 1946
