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At the end of WWII Germany was divided into four military occupation zones by the Allied Powers and were controlled respectively by France, the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), and the Soviet Union (USSR).In 1949 the areas controlled by France, the UK and US were merged and became the Federal Republic of Germany, also known as West Germany. East Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union.Germany remained divided into two parts until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The four occupying powers renounced their rights in 1990, thereby returning Germany's sovereignty.There are still US military bases and personnel in Germany, and there have been continuously since 1945. The status of these forces changed from occupiers in 1951, when military government ended and the civilian government of West Germany resumed. Similarly the Russians remained in East Germany until 1989, until the Soviet Union began to collapse, along with the communist puppet state the Soviets had erected in East Germany. After 1951 US forces remained in West Germany to deter the Russians from invading West Germany. Since German reunification and the end of the Cold War the rationale for the continued presence of these American forces is less well-defined. In its current persona as the world's self appointed policemen the US taxes its citizens to support a network of over 700 military bases outside the US, scattered around the world, in dozens of other nations.
Germany did not exist post-WW2 until reunification in 1989.Neither West Germany nor East Germany (created out of the US/UK/French occupation zones and the Soviet Occupation zones) were allowed to independently sign treaties, nor have armies.This changed rapidly with the onset of the Cold War.The worst that happened to Germany was half of it was granted to Poland, with 11 million German civilians expelled or murdered by the Polish and Soviet armies.
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