Following the surrender of Germany in 1945, the country returned mainly to its pre-war borders (except for some pieces taken as compensation) and found itself divided in occupation zones under the various victors.
- US-occupied Germany: capital at Frankfurt-Am-Main. Composed of Bavaria, Hesse, Northrn half of Baden-Wurtemberg, Bremen & Bremerhaven
- British-occupied Germany: occupied by British with troops from other commonwealth countries (mostly canadians). Made of Schlewig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia & part of Rhineland-Palatinate. Capital at Bad Oeynhausen.
- Norwegian-occupied Germany: Hannover
- Saarland: French Protectorate touted by France and some of its allies as a sovereign nation.
- French-occupied Germany: capital at Baden-Baden (Bade). Composed of Bade, Part of Rhineland-Palatinate & Wurtemberg-Hohenzollern.
- Soviet-occupied Germany: Capital at berlin. composed of Thuringia, saxony, saxony-anhalt, brandenberg & macklenberg-vorpommern.
- Free Polish enclave: Around the former town of Haren, now known as Maczków
- Belgian occupied germany: corridor around Cologne from Belgium to soviet Zone
- Luxemburg-occupied Germany: includes bitburg & saarburg
- Communist Polish-occupied Germany: Southern East-Prussia & (future) polish territory up to Oder River
- "Dutch Germany": proposed annexion of Cologne, Aachen, Munster and Onasbruck to the netherland
Not only do the occupiers pump everything they can out of their area of control, both material, natural resources and even force labour but conflicts erupts over interpretation of treaties leading to proxy wars especially in the other former axis power. Eventually, Germany, Austria, Italy and Japan cease to exist as a unified country with the former allies, who in this universe never contemplate a post WW2 military alliance against the soviet, forming their own puppet countries out of the various slices of germany while at home, countries face pro and anti-communist insurgencies.