Roosevelt and Churchill choose Saxony and Thuringia over West Berlin

I've never fully understood why Roosevelt and Churchill chose West Berlin over Saxony and Thuringia. West Berlin was much smaller, less valuable and much harder to defend. Indeed, it was a strange concept to begin with. So, how would the two Germanies be affected if Roosevelt and Churchill chose Saxony and Thuringia over West Berlin?
 
I am not certain about the two Germanies but I do know that a thousand and one Cold War thrillers get chucked out the window without the Berlin Wall.
 
How are Roosevelt and Churchill going to dislodge the Red Army from Saxony and Thuringia to even get the chance to "choose" them?
 
How are Roosevelt and Churchill going to dislodge the Red Army from Saxony and Thuringia to even get the chance to "choose" them?
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According to wiki, Thuringia and much of Saxony were in Allied hands at the time of the surrender.
 
It wasn't about choosing. From as far back as 1943 the Allies had agreed on the basic zones of occupation. So it wasn't an exchange or choice but rather just sticking to what had long been agreed on
 
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Occupying West Berlin was about occupying Germanys capital. There was no cold war thinking about defending a divided Germany. To understand it, you need to stop thinking about it as a Cold War issue and look at it through the lens of East-West cooperation midway through WW2.
 
How are Roosevelt and Churchill going to dislodge the Red Army from Saxony and Thuringia to even get the chance to "choose" them?

Those zones had been liberated by the Americans and the British.

It wasn't about choosing. From as far back as 1943 the Allies had agreed on the basic zones of occupation. So it wasn't an exchange or choice but rather just sticking to what had long been agreed on

Occupying West Berlin was about occupying Germanys capital. There was no cold war thinking about defending a divided Germany. To understand it, you need to stop thinking about it as a Cold War issue and look at it through the lens of East-West cooperation midway through WW2.

I simply don't understand why Roosevelt and Churchill accepted such terms. It's strange, that, even Stalin accepted it.
 
The division of Germany among the wartime allies makes perfect sense for each of them. I fail to understand why this baffles you.
I've never fully understood why Roosevelt and Churchill chose West Berlin over Saxony and Thuringia. West Berlin was much smaller, less valuable and much harder to defend. Indeed, it was a strange concept to begin with. So, how would the two Germanies be affected if Roosevelt and Churchill chose Saxony and Thuringia over West Berlin?
 
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