[dragonwriter]

West Germany wasn't, practically, occupied post-1955. It was formally occupied because the Cold War meant the USSR had no interest in signing off on the Western settlement with West Germany, just as the Western powers didn't with East Germany, and given the Potsdam Arrangement actually formally ending the occupation required that.

[tored]

You have to be either naive or a shill if you believe the US didn't leverage any political control over (West) Germany with that kind of large occupational force.