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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?
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