WI: North and South Germany?

Is there any chance that Charles de Gaulle's argument for a North and a South Germany, one for the allies, the other for the Soviets, could have come to fruition? Wouldn't this have created more unstable borders because of the positioning? What would this do to the Cold War in Europe?
 
Is there any chance that Charles de Gaulle's argument for a North and a South Germany, one for the allies, the other for the Soviets, could have come to fruition? Wouldn't this have created more unstable borders because of the positioning? What would this do to the Cold War in Europe?

Oh, this raises different problems. If North Germany is under Soviet control, that means that both the Ruhr and maybe even the Sarre are open to the Soviets. It means that the Soviets control the German North Sea coast too. Not sure that the WAllies, not to mention Churchill, would agree.

If South Germany is a Soviet puppet, then a socialist regime has a border with France and (if Austria is included in South Germany) Italy. This could become dangerous for France (so why would De Gaulle propose it in the first place) and for American interests in Italy.
 
No chance. When the Yanks suggested the French get a zone in Germany, the Soviets said fine, but it had to come out of the British and American zones. De Gaulle was seen as a nuisance by Churchill and Roosevelt, and I doubt that their successors would have much more like of him. Besides, the Americans already gave up chunks of land they occupied to give the Soviets the agreed upon borders. Why give an even larger occupation zone? Heck, fully half of the reperations and industrial output of the french, British, and American zones (I think) were supposed to go directly to the Soviets. Why give them even more? If this did all happen we might just see the French trying to get a centralized state with the Low Countries going, while Greater Bavaria got Finlandized. With those in the north being taught that they had been good communists. Blah blah, the Nazis came from Munich and Audtria and Catholics were Nazis, insert propoganda here.
 
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