Simple question. Would a German Silesia after WW2 in the Soviet sphere be a viable state?
Simple question. Would a German Silesia after WW2 in the Soviet sphere be a viable state?
Silesia indipendent would have been a lesser humiliation for the Germans - better that way than giving it to the Polish. Maybe the Soviets could have interest to further fragment the region - but they had to concede something to Poland as valuable compensation. So, quite hard to happen IMO.
Makes more sense in a scenario where the Allies have decided to break Germany up into multiple states.
Right, the Eastern Neisse line.Yes, it would seem that making a German parts of Silesia a part of a larger German Democratic Republic would be a lesser and more plausible change to the OTL than having both a GDR and a separate "Volksrepublic Schlesien".
Really all it would take it for Churchill/FDR to say no to Stalin suggesting the Western Neisse line and just say the East one; that leaves Breslau in East Germany; clearly that isn't want the OP asked for, but a 2 million person state after the Poles take their cut of it isn't going to be viable, nor make sense given that it could just remain in Germany and leave >2 million in place with industry and farmland.I am think of some sought of scenario where the allies reach Berlin first, and the Soviet then have less of Germany so no DDR but maybe some smaller state/s.
What is the definition of a viable state here?
Lots of countries do not have
-functional government
-enough food to survive on its own
-good economy
-ethnic harmony
yet are still around with no imminent end in sight.