In the Cold War two separate German countries emerged: Germany was divided during the Cold War between the Western Bloc led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc led by the USSR.

Some nine million Germans were prisoners of war. 12 to 14 million German-speaking refugees and expellees arrived in Western and central Germany from its Eastern territories and other countries in Eastern Europe between 19 an estimated two million of them died on the way there. This included around 400,000 survivors from the Nazi concentration camp system, survivors from a much larger number who had died from starvation, harsh conditions, murder, or being worked to death.

Saarland was French protectorate from 1947 to 1956 without the recognition of the ' Four Powers', because the Soviet Union opposed it, making it a disputed territory.Īt the end of World War II, there were some eight million foreign displaced people in Germany, mainly forced laborers and prisoners. The history of Germany from 1945–1990 spans the period following World War II, from the Berlin Declaration marking the abolition of the German Reich and Allied-occupied period in Germany on 5 June 1945 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.įollowing the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, and its defeat in World War II, Germany was stripped of its territorial gains more than a quarter of its old pre-war territory was annexed to communist Poland and the Soviet Union and their German populations were expelled to the west. Bilateral relations Inter–German relations

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