Search results
The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.
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.
The four Allied powers coordinated the occupation of Germany through the Allied Control Council, which ceased to operate after the Soviets withdrew from it on 20 March 1948.
In 1945, British troops occupied Germany alongside their wartime Soviet allies. But growing East-West tensions soon evolved into the Cold War. For the next four decades, soldiers in Germany prepared to face an attack by the Warsaw Pact.
Following Allied military victories, the camps were gradually liberated in 1944 and 1945, although hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the death marches. After the expansion of Nazi Germany, people from countries occupied by the Wehrmacht were targeted and detained in concentration camps.
Background. German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe. Following the conquest of Prussia by the Teutonic Knights in the Prussian Crusade, German settlers were brought in, displacing the indigenous Old Prussians. Part of the motivation behind the territorial changes is based on historical events in the Eastern and Central Europe.
- en.wikipedia.org
- › …
- › Cold War
- › Allied occupation of Europe
Category:History > History of Germany > Cold War history of Germany > Allied occupation of Germany. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied Powers occupied Germany and set up an extensive administrative structure.
