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  1. Allied aims with respect to postwar Germany were first laid out at the Yalta Conference, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin signed an agreement stating that they intended to: disarm and disband the German armed forces; break up the German General Staff; remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control German industry ...

  2. The Allied invasion of Germany east of the Rhine started with the Western Allies crossing the river on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to the Alpine passes in the south, where they linked up with troops of the U.S.

    • Allied occupation of Germany
  3. At first, Allied-occupied Germany was defined as all territories of Germany before the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria; the Potsdam Agreement on 2 August 1945 defined the new eastern German border by giving Poland and the Soviet Union all regions of Germany east of the Oder–Neisse line and divided the remaining "Germany as a whole" into four occ...

  4. After World War II Nazi Germany west of the Oder-Neisse line was divided into four occupation zones. This had been agreed in London in September 1944. They were occupied by the allied powers who defeated Germany (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States) and by France.

    • Military occupation
    • Cold War
    • Berlin (de jure)
    • DE
  5. Apr 27, 2022 · Home. Topics. World War II. How Germany Was Divided After World War II. A temporary solution to organize Germany into four occupation zones led to a divided nation under the Cold War. By:...

  6. DHM. Exhibitions. Archive. 2021. German History from the Middle Ages to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Germany under Allied Occupation. 1945–1949. After the capitulation the Allies divided the largely devastated country into four occupation zones. The regions east of the Oder and Neisse rivers were subject to Polish or Soviet administration.

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