Other cases of countries being partitioned?

If you have East and West Poland, how is West Poland going to get from united, pro-Western Germany territories which are majority or essentially entirely German? It sounds like an issue which the WAllies will drop in favour of maintaining control over Germany and helping internal stability in West Poland (no massive German minority, no need to expel them either). Can West Poland get territorial concessions from Germany? Yes, but I highly doubt they can get the OTL borders in the west.

Stalin and the Soviets will have little say in this matter since they won't be the ones determining the borders, although no doubt they will take away at least East Prussia from the Germans.
The borders werent determined by some silly "where we stand, there's the border" but by peace conferences in Teheran, Yałta and Postdam. I personally doubt there would be two Polands , if the realities of occupation of Germany dont require control of Poland by Soviets, then some form of unity government and eventual finlandization is more likely than partition. Expulsion of Germans might be minimally more civilized, maybe a bit more people will be allowed to stay. As for the border Poland actually might get more, because Churchill would like to make it stronger against Soviets, while Stalin might want to ensure that it would be forever conflicted with Germans, making a hypothetical alliance with the latter out of question.

In Germany denazification will be much deeper than otl, and Germany will remain demilitarized (quite possibly indefinitely) and occupied for longer.
 
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