[Kudzu_Bob]

> Germany was divided in two after WWII, something almost no one anticipated.

Nonsense. Haven't you heard of the Society for the Prevention of World War III, not to mention the Morgenthau Plan, both of which advocated the dismemberment of Germany well in advance of Berlin's fall? The real surprise is that any Germans whatsoever managed to survive the post-war forced expulsions and near-genocidal 1,200 calorie per day rations.

[cafard]

"The real surprise is that any Germans whatsoever managed to survive the post-war forced expulsions and near-genocidal 1,200 calorie per day rations."

And yet they did, there's a bunch of them last time I looked. The expulsions were in the east, chiefly East Prussia and Silesia, or of Volksdeutsch from the former Hapsburg lands.