More German occupation zones

The Vulture

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Inspired by the thread about the Canadians taking over the French sector.

What are some other ways Germany could be partitioned after the war? Supposing the Allies want to do more to have a bulwark against the Communists and prevent the resurgence of Nazism by involving more countries and splitting the country into smaller zones, allowing them to concentrate their forces?

Say we add the Canadians (or the Commonwealth), have Denmark occupy Schleswig-Holstein, and also have Belgian and Dutch troops.

How else could this work, and what do the Soviets do about it?
 
Denmark did put a small division at the disposal of the British occupation force being garrisoned at Itzehoe.

Thing is Denmark didn't want to give up the neutrality and only realized in 1948 that it had to.
Think you have to have something else in to change the mindset of the politicians. An early cold war, sort of.
 
OK, what about German zone in Germany??
(Or Austrian?)...
Tons of possibilities, but what if there were only 2 or 3 zones?
 
As far as I know, Stalin did at demand a Yugoslav occupation zone, when the Western Allies proposed a French one. But he backed down when the Western Allies agreed on the condition that it had to be taken entirely from the Soviet zone.

I think that if there should have been more zones, this would have had to be taken from the British, American and French zones. Stalin would probably not agree to relinquish any of his own.

But the Western Allies might have seen it as a a way of committing the Western Nations to a big joint venture. Several of the smaller countries of Western Europe did contribute occupation troops. Britain demanded that Norway should contribute troops, so Norway formed its German Brigade. At first, from January 1947, it was stationed in Harz, under the Command of the British 5. Division. In 1948 Norway demanded it be moved to north to Schleswig-Holstein, where it stood until 1953. From 48 to 53 it was considered Norways main defence against the Soviets. It was only moved out of Germany because of the Soviet build-up in the Kola pensinsula made Northern Norway a critical NATO-border.

Schleswig-Holstein could have been divided into a Norwegian and a Danish occupation zone.
 
Perhaps even a Luxembourg zone?- a few fields and maybe a town or two of a few hundred people by the border :D
 
Uh.. yeah... Poland went above and beyond occupation; they annexed parts of Germany. While we're at it, why not give the Swiss a zone. They were neutral, but what the hey.
 
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