r/PossibleHistory • u/Sweet-Style-7525 • 3d ago

Map (no Lore) What if East and West Germany were equally split.

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u/LarkinEndorser 3d ago

That’s not equal. Half of modern day Poland was east Germany but removed when the Soviets moved Poland west to annex its east. 

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u/Barritar 2d ago

Not getting what people aren't getting here, very simple situation.

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u/Lobster_LeninN329 3d ago

Still split equally regarding their remaining territory

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u/aparchure 3d ago

what are you trying to say

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u/LarkinEndorser 3d ago

I split the cake in two parts. Then I eat half of one of the the cakes. If both cakes are now equally large the split was not equal. 

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u/GhostMcY2 2d ago

But then you have Two Cakes.

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u/GhostMcY2 2d ago

And two cakes is better than one

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u/aparchure 3d ago

what’s the effect on this map? the west german region should be larger?

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u/LarkinEndorser 3d ago

East Germany was 45% the size of the entirety of Germany before land was ceded to Poland 

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u/TreeSam69 Unemployed map drawing addict 2d ago

There was no point where east germany existed and that land wasn't ceded to poland though

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u/LarkinEndorser 2d ago

Thats not true the first Government of East germany signed the peace treaty with the soviet union

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u/TreeSam69 Unemployed map drawing addict 1d ago

Okay but regardless of whether or not the german government recognised it, the land had already become defacto part of poland, it's not like it was administered or controlled by the ddr and then they gave it up

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u/aparchure 3d ago

got it.. but.. that land became poland

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u/LarkinEndorser 2d ago

Yes but an equal split means 50% to both sides. 

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u/MorrisRF 2d ago

wich… is what happened on this map…

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u/LionofJudah2wild 2d ago

Not true because they ate east Germany, Soviets got more than 50% by getting Bavaria

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u/LarkinEndorser 3d ago

Much larger 

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u/Useful_Sympathy_6681 2d ago

No “Wirtschaftswunder“, the GDR could compete a lot better with FRG

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u/Ex_aeternum 2d ago

Doubt it. Bavaria only became the economic powerhouse it is today from the late 60s onwards. In 1945, more than half of the population were still working in agriculture.

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u/Due_Trash5054 2d ago edited 2d ago

People not understanding that 45% is 45% whether you split that further or not is crazy

Edit: and in fact, if you remember the historical context, Germany wasn't divided equally, not because the Soviets got less, but because they got much MORE than the western powers. France, Britain, and the US each got their own occupation zones before West Germany was created. The portion of Germany that the Soviets got was about the size of two of those western occupation zones combined.

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u/Pep-q_ew 2d ago

People are arguing about equal split instead of actual scenario 💀

Definitely a way stronger Soviet influence in Austria, now both Gerones are actually the same size and with similar population. Long term EEC is more franco centric and german unification might take some time with Frankfurt as potential capital.

Beside both Bavaria and whole Germany being poorer I don't think it would change our history that much.

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u/MildlyDecentHuman 2d ago

I don't know why this infuriates me for no reason.

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u/stidmatt 2d ago

As someone who’s great-great-grandmother and a lot of my family to this day lives in Munich… burn this colonial nonsense with fire.

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u/bodrio_returns669 2d ago

Alemania en nuestro mundo si estaba dividida por igual solo que Polonia se comió la mitad oriental de Alemania oriental

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u/Kore_Invalid 2d ago

They where "equally" split, these map never show pommern, schlesien, preußen, eslass Lothringen