Largets East Germany possible?

With any POD after 1945 up until 1955, have East Germany, meaning that there must be a West Germany as a counter, be larger then it was OTL. Possibly to its greatest extent.
 

Adler

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POD: May 1945: The USA and Britain do not retreat from big parts of Central Germany from Mecklenburg to Saxony, or

POD: 1954/55: To solve the Berlin problem the Allies leave Berlin but the mentioned areas are given free.

In both moments the GDR has left too few land to survive. That's why the areas east of the Oder-Neiße are given back resp. not annexed by the Polish resp. Soviet states. Thus the GDR would be about 150.000 km² instead of 108.000.

Adler
 
That's why the areas east of the Oder-Neiße are given back resp. not annexed by the Polish resp. Soviet states. Thus the GDR would be about 150.000 km² instead of 108.000.
It seems like you're using "resp." in the way Germans would use "bzw". I find that funny, especially since I can't see anything wrong with it, just that I've never seen "respectively" used that way before.

I somehow get the feeling that the Russians always wanted to make their state encroach upon Poland a bit more, since they'd been bitter about that since the end of WW1.
 
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