Question

Germany was divided after world war 2 why​

Answer 1

Some 9 million Germans were POWs, many of whom were kept as forced laborers for several years to provide restitution to the countries Germany had devastated in the war, and some industrial equipment was removed as reparations. The Cold War divided Germany between the Western Allies in the west and Soviets in the east.

Answer 2

Answer:

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Following the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation at the Yalta conference: the occupying powers were the UK, France, the USA and the USSR. Berlin lay in the USSR occupied area - the others allies were not happy about this and demanded that Berlin should also be divided into four, and so it was.

Following the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation at the Yalta conference: the occupying powers were the UK, France, the USA and the USSR. Berlin lay in the USSR occupied area - the others allies were not happy about this and demanded that Berlin should also be divided into four, and so it was.The aim was to eventually reunite Germany in elections which would be held the following year.

Following the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation at the Yalta conference: the occupying powers were the UK, France, the USA and the USSR. Berlin lay in the USSR occupied area - the others allies were not happy about this and demanded that Berlin should also be divided into four, and so it was.The aim was to eventually reunite Germany in elections which would be held the following year.However, with the mutual enemy (Nazi Germany) defeated, the wartime alliance between the US and USSR (or more broadly the uneasy alliance between communism and capitalism) began to deteriorate. Neither side trusted the other to hold fair elections: the western powers feared that Germany would elect a communist government whilst the USSR feared that Germany would remain capitalist. Therefore neither side wished to relinquish its power over Germany and remained in occupation.

Following the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation at the Yalta conference: the occupying powers were the UK, France, the USA and the USSR. Berlin lay in the USSR occupied area - the others allies were not happy about this and demanded that Berlin should also be divided into four, and so it was.The aim was to eventually reunite Germany in elections which would be held the following year.However, with the mutual enemy (Nazi Germany) defeated, the wartime alliance between the US and USSR (or more broadly the uneasy alliance between communism and capitalism) began to deteriorate. Neither side trusted the other to hold fair elections: the western powers feared that Germany would elect a communist government whilst the USSR feared that Germany would remain capitalist. Therefore neither side wished to relinquish its power over Germany and remained in occupation.Between 1946 and 1949 three of the zones began to merge. Firstly the British and US zones merged to make a semi-state known as Bizonia, and they were joined by the French in Trizonia