What if Germany is allowed to keep Pommerania and half of silesia after WWII?

A quite common scenario for alternative WWII is to have Germany to keep Pomerania and Silesia, something close to this map:

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Here the questions: Let's say that Stalin simple decides that a strengned east germany is needed, or for plausibility reasons, he dies and someone else draws the map of east europe allowing Germany to keep these two territories. What are the implications in both poland and in the DDR? And after the annexation, would germany be even richer than OTL?
 
The Poles will be pissed. Losing huge territories in the East, and only getting southern East Prussia, Danzig and Upper Silesia?

Other than that... this GDR will be even thinner settled than IOTL, hence more agricultural. A few Germans from these areas may decide not to go to West Germany. Instead of five new lands, the FRG would get seven new lands, after an eventual reunification.
 

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The expelled Pomeranians and Silesians were sent to West Germany, not East Germany. Unless you’re saying that Pomerania and Silesia were sparsely populates and agricultural, then I don’t see how keeping them would make the GDR more agricultural. And Silesia was and still is a major mining and industrial region, not an agricultural one.
 
Not entirely true - 1950 the GDR had 4 million refugees, proportionally even more than the west.

And while Upper Silesia was indeed very industrial, that didn't apply so much for the rest, excepting the capital Breslau. It's got fertile soil, you shouldn't ignore its agriculture.
 
The Poles will be pissed. Losing huge territories in the East, and only getting southern East Prussia, Danzig and Upper Silesia?

Other than that... this GDR will be even thinner settled than IOTL, hence more agricultural. A few Germans from these areas may decide not to go to West Germany. Instead of five new lands, the FRG would get seven new lands, after an eventual reunification.

There was some major shipbuilding in Pommerania? As far I know Stettin was a huge trade hub since the city localization:

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Stettin is an exception, the rest of Pomerania was very rural, and even Stettin wasn't that huge. Not on a level with Hamburg or Bremen.
 
I don't think that was ever very plausible. It was widely felt that Poland had to be compensated for the territory she was losing to the USSR. What is plausible is that the Oder-eastern Neisse (rather than the Oder-western Neisse) might be chosen as the border. Stalin's insistence on the western Neisse came late in the war.
 
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