AHC: 4 Germanies, One each...

Have The 4 post war occupation zones of germany each become their own political entity. They don’t have to last forever or even very long so long as at one point in the 20th century all four exist at once. Do your best to have a POD after 1945.

Good luck.


p.s. not sure that's the right way to pluralise Germany
 
Well Im having trouble finding a way to do this. I could see the American region and the British region under separate governments, although not for long. The biggest problem with these is that the French would annex the areas they occupy, or at least the ones near enough to their borders.
 
A post 1945 POD is hard. I think the easier solution is to tweak the occupation zones - make it so the American zone is only Bavaria (or swap the British and American zones, and make the British zone only Bavaria), and the French zone is the Rhineland - and then have some kind of USA-Europe-USSR falling out to delay the natural tendency towards unification.
 
There were plans to permanently divide Germany. If one of those becomes the dominant plan (or maybe a modified version), then it could end up being carved into four, each one placed under the influence of one of the four Allied powers.
 
What about Bavaria recalling a Wittelsbach into service, becoming a monarchy and being thus prevented from joining the federation?

ISTR there was some popular support for the king.
 
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