At the end of WWII, Germany was broken up into two countries”
West Germany was administered by the western countries in its recovery and east germany by the Soviet Union. Berlin, the capital, was broken up into 4 parts, each administered by a country – US, France, England and the Soviet Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany The war resulted in the death of nearly ten million German soldiers and civilians; large territorial losses; the expulsion of about 15 million Germans from the former eastern territories and other countries; and the destruction of multiple major cities. The remaining national territory and Berlin were partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones. The western sectors, controlled by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, were merged on 23 May 1949, to form the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or BRD); on 7 October 1949, the Soviet Zone became the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik,
