PC: Germany forced to Cede Left Bank of the Rhine

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Above is Winston Churchill's idea for how to partition Germany. I see no logic in grafting Bavaria onto Hungary, but that's not my concern. Churchill had the idea of seperating off the left bank of the Rhine, an area supplying most of Germany's war resources. It seems like the most effective way to permanently neutralize Germany as a threat. So how plausible is it that they could have the Rhine form the Western border of Postwar Germany and give the left bank over to the Belgians and Dutch? It probably would've required evicting all the Germans but Truman and Attlee had already signed off on allowing Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union to do just that, would it be a bridge too far for several million more?
 
Churchill always had somewhat quaint ideas about threat recognition and prevention. He was after all someone who considered Ghandi an equal threat to Britain in the 1930s as Hitler.

This extended to his fixation on forcibly disbanding the German General Staff and separating Prussia from the rest of Germany, as he saw Prussia and the General Staff as the real threats to peace.

Uniting Austria and Hungary once more and grafting Bavaria onto that new state is an equally quaint and anachronistic idea that sought to restore the pre 1866 status quo of sorts. This plan however might run i to the practical issue of where each army was in 1945. The Russians would likely be destabilizing the Northern and Southern states relentlessly.

The idea however of saying "How about we pick up Poland and move it over there" and with handwavium and ethnic cleansing brought it about was probably equally as absurd in 1945 so who knows.
 

kernals12

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Churchill always had somewhat quaint ideas about threat recognition and prevention. He was after all someone who considered Ghandi an equal threat to Britain in the 1930s as Hitler.

This extended to his fixation on forcibly disbanding the German General Staff and separating Prussia from the rest of Germany, as he saw Prussia and the General Staff as the real threats to peace.

Uniting Austria and Hungary once more and grafting Bavaria onto that new state is an equally quaint and anachronistic idea that sought to restore the pre 1866 status quo of sorts. This plan however might run i to the practical issue of where each army was in 1945. The Russians would likely be destabilizing the Northern and Southern states relentlessly.

The idea however of saying "How about we pick up Poland and move it over there" and with handwavium and ethnic cleansing brought it about was probably equally as absurd in 1945 so who knows.
Prussia was the base of the Nazis' electoral bloc. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was similarly resentful of Prussia.
 
Prussia was the base of the Nazis' electoral bloc. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was similarly resentful of Prussia.
True enough, Adenauer considered Germany over the Elbe as part of Asia. Different way of thinking about things, I guess.
 
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