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Identify the country that occupied and controlled each part of Germany immediately following World War II.
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Immediately after World War II (1945) Germany was divided into four occupation zones, each administered by one of the Allied powers:
- Soviet Union: the eastern zone — including Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Thuringia, and most of Prussia’s eastern provinces (much of which was later ceded to Poland and the USSR).
- United States: the southern and parts of central zones — including Bavaria, Hesse and Württemberg-Baden.
- United Kingdom: the northwestern zone — including Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and North Rhine‑Westphalia.
- France: the southwestern zone — parts of Baden, Württemberg and the Rhineland (and the Saar area under separate French administration for a period).
Berlin, although located inside the Soviet zone, was itself divided into four sectors controlled respectively by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
(These occupation arrangements were set in 1945; in 1949 the three western zones merged to form West Germany and the Soviet zone became East Germany.)
- Soviet Union: the eastern zone — including Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Thuringia, and most of Prussia’s eastern provinces (much of which was later ceded to Poland and the USSR).
- United States: the southern and parts of central zones — including Bavaria, Hesse and Württemberg-Baden.
- United Kingdom: the northwestern zone — including Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and North Rhine‑Westphalia.
- France: the southwestern zone — parts of Baden, Württemberg and the Rhineland (and the Saar area under separate French administration for a period).
Berlin, although located inside the Soviet zone, was itself divided into four sectors controlled respectively by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
(These occupation arrangements were set in 1945; in 1949 the three western zones merged to form West Germany and the Soviet zone became East Germany.)
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