Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
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| Capital | Berlin (de jure) | |||
| Political structure | Military occupation | |||
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| - UK zone | Field Marshal Montgomery | |||
| - French zone | General Lattre de Tassigny | |||
| - US zone | General Eisenhower | |||
| - Soviet zone | Marshal Zhukov | |||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||
| - Surrender | May 8, 1945 | |||
| - Allied Control Council | July 5, 1945 | |||
| - Saar protectorate | December 15, 1947 | |||
| - West Germany | 23 May, 1949 | |||
| - East Germany | 7 October, 1949 | |||
| - Final Settlement¹ | September 12, 1990 | |||
¹ German reunification took place on October 3, 1990.
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After World War II Nazi Germany west of the Oder-Neisse line was divided into four occupation zones.
They were occupied by the allied powers who defeated Germany, the (Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States) and by France. This was done for administrative purposes during the period 1945-1949.
In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe the American forces had actually pushed beyond the previously agreed upon occupation zone boundaries, sometimes by as much as 200 miles. After about two months of holding certain areas meant to be in the Soviet zone, the American forces withdrew in July 1945.
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 Subdivisions of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany (1945-1949/1990) |
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American zone  |
Bavaria · Bremen · Hesse (Greater Hesse) · Württemberg-Baden |  |
British zone  |
Lower Saxony · Hamburg · North Rhine-Westphalia · Schleswig-Holstein | |
French zone  |
Baden · Rhineland-Palatinate · (Saar) · Württemberg-Hohenzollern | |
Soviet zone  |
Brandenburg · Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · Saxony · Saxony-Anhalt · Thuringia | |
| Berlin (1949–90) |  West Berlin (UK, FR, USA) ·  East Berlin (USSR) |
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