A Unified Team of Germany competed in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter and Summer Olympic Games as a united team of athletes from the West and East. In 1956 the team also included athletes from a third Olympic body, the Saarland Olympic Committee, which had sent a separate team in 1952, but in 1956 was in the process of joining the German National Olympic Committee. This process was completed in February 1957 after the admission of Saarland into West Germany.