2The references were made in the course of actions brought by the claimants in the main proceedings against the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (Federal pension insurance body, ‘Rentenversicherung’) over the latter's refusal to take account, for the purposes of the payment of old-age benefits, of periods of contribution completed, in the case of Mrs Habelt (Case C-396/05) in the Sudetenland from January 1939 to April 1945, and in the case of Mrs Moser (Case 0419/05) in Pomerania from 1 April 1937 to 1 February 1945, at a time when those territories, which are not part of the present-day Federal Republic of Germany, were part of territories where the social security legislation of the German Reich was applicable, and, in the case of Mr Wachter (Case C-450/05) in Romania, from September 1953 to October 1970, on the ground that the claimants in the main proceedings have established their residence in a Member State other than the Federal Republic of Germany.
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