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How might the Cold War have been different if the state of Germany had been like this:

Instead of being split, the Soviets and the West reach an accommodation whereby Germany enshrines both neutrality and significant military limits (Japan-style) into its constitution. It guarantees never to use military force, nor that it will possess nuclear weapons, belong to military alliances, or allow the stationing of any foreign troops on its soil. As a result, it effectively acts as a buffer between NATO and the Soviet sphere. After much deliberation this is the settlement and the Federal Republic of Germany is born in the spring of 1950, a single country from the Oder to the Low Countries.
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