IOTL, the United States and the USSR agreed to base their borders of a divided Germany based upon their Line of Contact, resulting in the Soviets reneging on their promise of giving Poland an outlet on the Oder.
(OOC: Poland did, however, receive more parts of the Belarusian and Ukrainian SSRs, as well as all of East Prussia south of the Deyma, Pregolya, Angrapa, and Pissa Rivers)
Also, in a complete twist, a strip in the Sudetenland, extending from Reichenberg to Eger, was retained by the Germans.
Instead Berchtesgaden was lost to Austria, and small parts of Germany on the border were lost to the Netherlands and Switzerland. Heligoland reverted to British control as a Crown Dependency.
The left bank of the Rhine, plus Eupen, became a French satellite state.
However, there were originally proposals for the Allies to split Germany in such a manner which would give the Soviets all of Thuringia, Anhalt-Altmark, and Saxony, with a joint administration in Berlin, as well as drawing the German-Polish border on the Oder and Neisse Rivers. Some versions of the plan even included Stettin at the Polish side of the border. There was no mention, however, of a Dutch occupation of any German soil, the British annexation of Heligoland, nor a separate French administration of Germany in such plans.
So, suppose instead of the borders we have back in 1949, what if the red lines became the borders?
(OOC: Poland did, however, receive more parts of the Belarusian and Ukrainian SSRs, as well as all of East Prussia south of the Deyma, Pregolya, Angrapa, and Pissa Rivers)
Also, in a complete twist, a strip in the Sudetenland, extending from Reichenberg to Eger, was retained by the Germans.
Instead Berchtesgaden was lost to Austria, and small parts of Germany on the border were lost to the Netherlands and Switzerland. Heligoland reverted to British control as a Crown Dependency.
The left bank of the Rhine, plus Eupen, became a French satellite state.
However, there were originally proposals for the Allies to split Germany in such a manner which would give the Soviets all of Thuringia, Anhalt-Altmark, and Saxony, with a joint administration in Berlin, as well as drawing the German-Polish border on the Oder and Neisse Rivers. Some versions of the plan even included Stettin at the Polish side of the border. There was no mention, however, of a Dutch occupation of any German soil, the British annexation of Heligoland, nor a separate French administration of Germany in such plans.
So, suppose instead of the borders we have back in 1949, what if the red lines became the borders?
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