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зонасы – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="Германияны оккупациясыны совет зонасы" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padomju_okup%C4%81cijas_zona_V%C4%81cij%C4%81" title="Padomju okupācijas zona Vācijā – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Padomju okupācijas zona Vācijā" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovjet-bezettingszone_in_Duitsland" title="Sovjet-bezettingszone in Duitsland – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sovjet-bezettingszone in Duitsland" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" 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href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/20px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/30px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/40px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Today part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Soviet occupation zone in Germany</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Sowjetische Besatzungszone (SBZ)</i> or <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Ostzone</i></span>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">East Zone</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Советская оккупационная зона Германии</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii</i></span>) was an area of Germany that was occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> area, established as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a> on 2 August 1945. On 7 October 1949 the <a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="German Democratic Republic">German Democratic Republic</a> (GDR), commonly referred to in English as <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>, was established in the Soviet occupation zone. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg/220px-1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg/330px-1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg/440px-1949_Soviet_visa_from_occupied_Germany.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1157" data-file-height="1644" /></a><figcaption>1949 Soviet visa from occupied Germany in a Polish service-passport</figcaption></figure> <p>The SBZ was one of the four <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Allied occupation zones of Germany</a> created at the end of World War II with the Allied victory. According to the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement" title="Potsdam Agreement">Potsdam Agreement</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Military_Administration_in_Germany" title="Soviet Military Administration in Germany">Soviet Military Administration in Germany</a> (German initials: SMAD) was assigned responsibility for the middle portion of Germany. Eastern Germany beyond the <a href="/wiki/Oder-Neisse_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Oder-Neisse line">Oder-Neisse line</a>, equal in territory to the SBZ, was to be annexed by Poland and its <a href="/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_from_Poland_during_and_after_World_War_II" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II">population expelled</a>, pending a final peace conference with Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the time armed forces of the United States and United Kingdom began to meet Soviet Union forces, forming the <a href="/wiki/Line_of_Contact" title="Line of Contact">Line of Contact</a>, significant areas of what would become the Soviet zone of Germany were outside Soviet control. After several months of occupation, these gains by the British and Americans were ceded to the Soviets by July 1945, according to the previously agreed occupation zone boundaries. </p><p>The SMAD allowed four <a href="/wiki/Political_parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties">political parties</a> to develop, though they were all required to work together under an <a href="/wiki/Alliance" title="Alliance">alliance</a> known as the "<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Bloc_(East_Germany)" title="Democratic Bloc (East Germany)">Democratic Bloc</a>" (later the <a href="/wiki/National_Front_(East_Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Front (East Germany)">National Front</a>). In April 1946, the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party of Germany</a> (SPD) and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" title="Communist Party of Germany">Communist Party of Germany</a> (KPD) were <a href="/wiki/Merger_of_the_KPD_and_SPD_into_the_Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Merger of the KPD and SPD into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany">forcibly merged</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">Socialist Unity Party</a> which later became the governing party of the GDR. </p><p>The SMAD set up <a href="/wiki/NKVD_special_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="NKVD special camps">ten "special camps"</a> for the detention of <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a>, making use of some former <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">Nazi concentration camps</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png/220px-EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png/330px-EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png/440px-EAC_Zonenprotokoll_2.png 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="2006" /></a><figcaption>Originally planned occupation zones according to the <a href="/wiki/London_Protocol_(1944)" title="London Protocol (1944)">London Protocol (1944)</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg/220px-States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg/330px-States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg/440px-States_in_German_Democratic_Republic_1949_-_1952_lightly_colored.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="618" data-file-height="789" /></a><figcaption>States <i>(Länder)</i> of the Soviet zone and later also the GDR until 1952: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#6D91BC; color:black;"> </span>  Mecklenburg </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#EF6768; color:black;"> </span>  Brandenburg </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FEE276; color:black;"> </span>  Saxony-Anhalt </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#73A67D; color:black;"> </span>  Saxony </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#67BEDD; color:black;"> </span>  Thuringia </div></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1945, the Soviet occupation zone consisted primarily of the central portions of <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a>. After Prussia was dissolved by the Allied powers in 1947, the area was divided between the German states <i>(Länder)</i> of <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg_(1945%E2%80%931952)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brandenburg (1945–1952)">Brandenburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_of_Mecklenburg_(1945%E2%80%931952)" title="State of Mecklenburg (1945–1952)">Mecklenburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxony_(1945%E2%80%931952)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxony (1945–1952)">Saxony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxony-Anhalt_(1945%E2%80%931952)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952)">Saxony-Anhalt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 October 1949, the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic. In 1952, the <i>Länder</i> were dissolved and realigned into 14 districts <i>(Bezirke)</i>, plus the district of <a href="/wiki/East_Berlin" title="East Berlin">East Berlin</a>. </p><p>In 1952, with the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> political confrontation well underway, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> sounded out the Western Powers about the prospect of a united Germany which would be non-aligned (the "<a href="/wiki/Stalin_Note" title="Stalin Note">Stalin Note</a>"). The West's lack of interest in this proposal helped to cement the Soviet Zone's identity as the GDR for the next four decades. </p><p>"Soviet zone" and derivatives (or also, "the so-called GDR") remained official and common names for East Germany in West Germany, which refused to acknowledge the existence of a state in East Germany until 1972, when the government of <a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a> extended a qualified recognition under its <a href="/wiki/Ostpolitik" title="Ostpolitik">Ostpolitik</a> initiative. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_(1945-1990).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png/400px-Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png/600px-Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png/800px-Allied_occupation_in_Berlin_%281945-1990%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1196" /></a><figcaption>The occupied sectors of Berlin</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Soviet_occupation_zone_in_Germany&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria" title="Allied-occupied Austria">Allied-occupied Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_East_Germany" title="History of East Germany">History of East Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bizone" title="Bizone">Bizone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trizone" class="mw-redirect" title="Trizone">Trizone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany" title="Group of Soviet Forces in Germany">Group of Soviet Forces in Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stunde_Null" class="mw-redirect" title="Stunde Null">Stunde Null</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Soviet_occupation_zone_in_Germany&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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