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The Western Allied zones of Germany and the western sectors of Berlin (de facto). The Soviet zone of Germany and sector of Berlin. The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.
Instead of administering and policing Germany side by side, as the Allies did in postwar Austria, the decision was made at Potsdam to divide Germany into four distinct occupation zones, one...
The victorious powers (Great Britain, the USA, France and the Soviet Union) divided Germany into four zones of occupation. Berlin, the capital city, was divided into four sectors. Germany lost extensive territories in Central and Eastern Europe, from where twelve million Germans were expelled.
The American occupation zone in Germany (German: Amerikanische Besatzungszone), also known as the US-Zone, and the Southwest zone, [1] was one of the four occupation zones established by the Allies of World War II in Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line in July 1945, around two months after the German surrender and the end of World War II in ...
For purposes of occupation, the Americans, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into four zones. The American, British, and French zones together made up the western two-thirds of Germany, while the Soviet zone comprised the eastern third.
The four occupation zones of Germany conceived at the Yalta Conference were set up, each to be administered by the commander-in-chief of the Soviet, British, U.S., or French army of occupation. Berlin, Vienna, and Austria were also each divided into four occupation zones.
After World War II Nazi Germany west of the Oder-Neisse line was divided into four occupation zones. This had been agreed in London in September 1944. They were occupied by the allied powers who defeated Germany (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States) and by France.
Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-52. After Germany's defeat in the Second World War, the four main allies in Europe - the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France - took part in a joint occupation of the German state.
Germany, within her frontiers as they were on the 31st December 1937, will, for the purposes of occupation, be divided into four zones, one of which will be allotted to each of the four Powers, and a special Berlin area, which will be under joint occupation by the four Powers.
Germany under Allied Occupation. 1945–1949. After the capitulation the Allies divided the largely devastated country into four occupation zones. The regions east of the Oder and Neisse rivers were subject to Polish or Soviet administration.