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Partition of Germany

The situation in Germany after the Second World War was disastrous. Millions of Germans were homeless from Allied bombing operations that demolished entire cities. And millions more Germans living in Poland and East Prussia became exiles when the USSR exiled them. With the German economy and governance in shambles, the Allies decided that Germany must be occupied after the war to guarantee a peaceful transformation to a post-Nazi state.

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