Why was Germany divided into East and West Germany? 

That’s probably because of hatred for communism.

Actually until 1990, the West German state didn't officially recognize any of the german eastern borders established after WW2. As far as I know, until the reunification with DDR, the Constitution of the Federal Republic had provisions allowing for the eastern lands (those that formed DDR and those included in Poland and USSR) to reunite with the Federal Republic. 🙂 I happened to have a mapp atlas from the 1980s published in West Germany and there, although the official borders of Poland and DDR are shown, the old eastern German borders (from before WW2, including those of East Prussia) are clearly marked also. It was very interesting for me to discover this. 🙂

That part of the war did not involve Germany. After the Nazis were defeated, there was no active war situation on Germany. That's why we have VE day... victory in EUROPE.

@@TommyWylie Still, the second world war did not end in May 1945 as stated in the video.

True, yet the Germany what is now Poland and Russia is not more German. All Germans were expelled, German town names have been turned into Polish and Russian. A friend of mine cycled the Oder border banks, both in Germany and Poland. And you can see 2 different approaches in river bank management: German bank has been dykes and the Polish bank is flood plains.

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Thank you, I will definitely make one or more videos on the innergerman border.

I remember that. The United States also recognized the DDR, with former U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky (who was of German descent) serving as the first U.S. ambassador to East Germany. Cooper had been a longtime advocate of reduced tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

That's correct!

USSR did propose that actually, but West instead of accepting that merged the occupation zone saying essentially fuck you to this proposal

ALSO OUR PRIME MINISTER ANDREOTTI SAID THIS!

Fun Fact: from 1948 to 1955 there were even 3 Germanies: the Saarland was nr. 3. A French protectorate, which France tried hard to join France, but the Saarlanders said no. So Saarland join West Germany in 1955. Also the French have left their mark on Saarland, it has the most Michelin stars of restaurants of whole Germany.

Yes, now with the correct founding date of the Federal Republic of Germany. Hope it didn't cause any inconvenience.

That is incorrect, the Molotov agreement was simply a non-conflict agreement in which both parties would agree to not attack or involve eachother and divide the territory of Poland accordingly due to Soviet occupation in Poland. The brittish and even the french also attempted similar agreements at the start of the war. Stalin also knew Hitler wasn't going to respect this agreement so he prepared for war, never supported the Nazi regime.

@@FleshBrain have you seen the friendship parade in Brest Litovsk in 1939? They were allies responsible for starting WWII.

@@paulmattt It is called German-Soviet parade, not friendship lmao. And it was simply made to delimitate the territory both the USSR and the Nazis would take. Which is actually a pretty common practice, it was done between the US and USSR on Germany. Will you also say they were "friends"? And no, the USSR was neither an ally nor the origin of WW2, they simply saw a chance and took it. What else could they do? Try to take down the biggest and most powerful army in the world so they can get Poland? They were also at war with Poland. And I don't see how this would be the origin of WW2, the nazis started and executed most of WW2 by conquering nearby europeans, the Soviet Union, again, only made a non-aggro pact and agreed to stay outside the conflict. Which again, was also attempted by other nations because who in their sane mind would try to fight the nazis willingly?!

@@FleshBrain that makes them an ally. They occupy 51% of Polish territory, plus the Baltics and Bessarabia. They committed genocide against the occupied population. My family ended up under Soviet occupation. Some were lucky enough to escape to the German side. All are saying that the occupation was brutal and lasted 45 years. And yes, there was a full cooperation between the Soviets and the Nazis until Barbarossa. And yes, some of the Nazis paid for their war crimes, none of the Soviet war criminals ever did.

@@paulmattt So again, you're saying the US and USSR were also allies despite the Cold War? Lol. Do you know the Brittish were also making similar deals with the Soviets? The plan of the USSR was to become a commercial world power and wanted good relationships with the rest of world powers. Why would they commit genocide over polands? They simply took it as a satellite country, nothing else, that's not genocide and there's no proof of such. And no, there was little to no cooperation. Even Hitler expresses in Mein Kampf how disgusting it was to treat with the Russians and Polands. Stalin always talked in favour of germany as a tactic of maintaining good relationships. So did any other governor that wasn't in the conflict at the time, the US still maintained a trading pact until 1939 for example. Stop trying to pass your anti-communist agenda, countries can't magically just decide to be heros, the USSR wouldn't have a valid reason to involve in the conflict other than trying to avoid the holocaust, but again, that's incredibly dangerous, you'd be facing the most powerful army in the world. You'd probably lose and receive the same treatment. This was known by England and French, because again, those both tried similar pacts as well!!! England even supported Hitler raising power and made a lot of propaganda for him, will you say England also caused WW2? Please, don't be so gullible.

Bijna iedere nieuwe video heeft een of meerdere boektips. Dan komt je kast snel vol. ;-)

Impressive that a man your age can still pat himself on the back that well. ...

Yet, the Soviets did pull out of Austria. They had also been given an occupation zone of that nation after it was re-instated as independent from Germany at war's end. That agreement that reunited Austria as a democracy required that it not join either a western or Soviet alliance (later to known known as NATO and the Warsaw Pact), and that the new Austria not ban the Communist Party. The U.S., U.K and France had no problem with those terms. Unfortunately, no such agreement was possible with Germany, as the Soviets would never pull out and leave it unoccupied, after what the German military had done to the USSR, and because Stalin had such long and close ties to Walter Ulbricht and other German communists.

Who was more vile, Hitler or Stalin? They both started World War II with their agreement to split up Poland. Thank you for these very interesting videos.

He’s just German dude, they’re all secretly cyborgs

I like seeing a face to go along with the narration. 👍

​​@@cringlator Only half-German, he has a distinct Dutch accent. So I guess...half cyborg.

🙄 1945 map bozo

The official names in Germany are in German.

It would be safer today ; if it was left split. ..

Where has it caused trouble? It creates more trouble that states like the UK, Russia and France do not dissolve the rest of their colonial empire.

@@DerVersteherPlus Those empires are no more than their dead shadows [[ there is omly one empire and it's the US. Are you for real or pretending?

What would have been your "solution" to ½ going down the toilet ?

@@HauntedXXXPancake Down the drain sounds like the perfect solution for any fraction of Germany.