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American occupation zone in Germany
The American occupation zone in Germany (German: Amerikanische Besatzungszone), also known as the US-Zone, and the Southwest zone, was one of the four occupation zones established by the Allies of World War II in Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line in July 1945, around two months after the German surrender and the end of World War II in Europe. It was controlled by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) and ceased to exist after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany on 21 September 1949 (FRG established 23 May 1949), but the United States maintains military presence across Germany.
The American zone of occupation was more than 40,000 square miles (100,000 km2) or about the size of Pennsylvania, with almost 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of internal and international boundaries. The largest cities were Frankfurt and Munich. The zone encompassed a large section of south-eastern and central Germany:
In addition, Bremen and Bremerhaven (including the districts of Wesermünde, Osterholz und Wesermarsch until December 1945) were part of the zone and played a central role as the port through which the occupation zone was supplied.
More than 16 million Germans and more than one half million displaced persons lived in the zone. At the end of October 1946, the American Zone had a population of:
Berlin was divided in four between the four occupying powers. The southwestern portion (Zehlendorf, Steglitz, Schöneberg, Kreuzberg, Tempelhof, Neukölln) was the American sector and came under US military administration, but was formally separate from the American occupation zone.
Under the Wanfried agreement on 17 September 1945, some villages on the Werra river were exchanged for some villages in the Soviet Occupation Zone, in order to place the whole of the Frankfurt–Göttingen railway under American control. This also brought part of Eichsfeld into the zone.
The headquarters of the OMGUS was the former IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. Command of the OMGUS was initially invested in the later President Dwight Eisenhower, who was commander-in-chief of the American forces in Europe at the end of World War II.
Eisenhower's successors were:
American occupation zone in Germany
The American occupation zone in Germany (German: Amerikanische Besatzungszone), also known as the US-Zone, and the Southwest zone, was one of the four occupation zones established by the Allies of World War II in Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line in July 1945, around two months after the German surrender and the end of World War II in Europe. It was controlled by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) and ceased to exist after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany on 21 September 1949 (FRG established 23 May 1949), but the United States maintains military presence across Germany.
The American zone of occupation was more than 40,000 square miles (100,000 km2) or about the size of Pennsylvania, with almost 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of internal and international boundaries. The largest cities were Frankfurt and Munich. The zone encompassed a large section of south-eastern and central Germany:
In addition, Bremen and Bremerhaven (including the districts of Wesermünde, Osterholz und Wesermarsch until December 1945) were part of the zone and played a central role as the port through which the occupation zone was supplied.
More than 16 million Germans and more than one half million displaced persons lived in the zone. At the end of October 1946, the American Zone had a population of:
Berlin was divided in four between the four occupying powers. The southwestern portion (Zehlendorf, Steglitz, Schöneberg, Kreuzberg, Tempelhof, Neukölln) was the American sector and came under US military administration, but was formally separate from the American occupation zone.
Under the Wanfried agreement on 17 September 1945, some villages on the Werra river were exchanged for some villages in the Soviet Occupation Zone, in order to place the whole of the Frankfurt–Göttingen railway under American control. This also brought part of Eichsfeld into the zone.
The headquarters of the OMGUS was the former IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. Command of the OMGUS was initially invested in the later President Dwight Eisenhower, who was commander-in-chief of the American forces in Europe at the end of World War II.
Eisenhower's successors were:
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