Germany Keeping Silesia and/or Pomerania?

Would it be possible for Germany to keep either or both Silesia or Pomerania after WW2? I assume Stalin would have allowed to let East Germany to keep either one or both of them as a way to strengthen it at the expense of Poland, correct?
 
Would it be possible for Germany to keep either or both Silesia or Pomerania after WW2? I assume Stalin would have allowed to let East Germany to keep either one or both of them as a way to strengthen it at the expense of Poland, correct?

Two possibilities come to mind:

1) Germany gets divided further east than OTL. Earlier D-Day, earlier capture and repairing of the port of Antwerp, and the western Allies could reach the Oder first, amongst other PODs, or

2) The Home Army in Poland leads a long-term partisan fight against Soviet and Red Polish forces, leading Stalin to punish the Poles and not give them the territory to the Oder-Neisse in exchange for moving the eastern border to the Curzon line.
 
It wouldn't even be that hard with minimal changes to OTL. There was considerable support for absorbing trans-Oder Silesia to Poland, but the rest of Silesia and much of Pomerania were not until fairly late really "on the table." Stettin, for example, which is practically most of the value of Pomerania, was only given to Poland to compensate for Stalin suddenly demanding Konigsberg, which would have been given to Poland.

Overall, the idea at first was to eliminate the East Prussia exclave, and then make Poland stronger with more defensible borders. A Silesia Oder border + a narrowing in Pomerania would accomplish this, though the straight Oder-Neisse had the same effect.
 
Come to think of it, couldn't most of the East Prussia exclave be better off given to the Belorussian SSR? If the Home Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army could at least form a truce in order to fight the Red Army and pro-Soviet Poles, then Stalin would punish them with territorial losses. In this case, Carpatho-Ruthenia can still be given to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Galicia could be created as an independent buffer, or a good chunk of Western Ukraine can be given to the Belorussian SSR.
 
Come to think of it, couldn't most of the East Prussia exclave be better off given to the Belorussian SSR? If the Home Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army could at least form a truce in order to fight the Red Army and pro-Soviet Poles, then Stalin would punish them with territorial losses. In this case, Carpatho-Ruthenia can still be given to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Galicia could be created as an independent buffer, or a good chunk of Western Ukraine can be given to the Belorussian SSR.

Belarus? I'm not so sure; the Polish claim is much stronger, and in any case, that would require further Polish compensation in the west, going against the OP's requests.
 
Poland can keep Silesia for sure, but Pomerania would go to the GDR with the right scenario. It all depends on whether or not Stalin would want a stronger East Germany or a stronger Poland.
 
Poland can keep Silesia for sure, but Pomerania would go to the GDR with the right scenario. It all depends on whether or not Stalin would want a stronger East Germany or a stronger Poland.

I think that's the main issue. Stalin would like a controllable Poland, but he really wants a weak Germany, for obvious reasons.
 
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