Timeline for Why weren't Baden, Würtemberg and Bavaria independent states ever restored, unlike Austria?
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| Jul 8, 2015 at 15:37 | comment | added | Kevin Keane | The allies - BTW, including the Soviet Union - wanted to preserve Germany as a unified state, except for reverting the Austrian Anschluss, and the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line. GDR ended up separate because the allies couldn't agree on a political system for the whole of Germany. In the West, the motivation for keeping Germany a single state was linked to the motivation for the Marshall Plan: rebuilding and making Germany powerful would provide a better defense against the Soviet Union (as well as less risk of future wars). | |
| Apr 21, 2015 at 18:57 | comment | added | Bregalad | Man, I sure would not want to have been there. And I know the structure of the country was made by the allies, but the question is why didn't the allies restore independence to southern states (maybe not immediately, but say in 1948 when the FRG was formed). | |
| Apr 21, 2015 at 16:06 | history | answered | Tyler Durden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |