- Bizone
The Bizone, or Bizonia, was the combination of the American and the British occupation zones during the
occupation of Germany afterWorld War II . With the addition of the French occupation zone, the entity became the Trizone or Trizonia. In 1949, the trizone became theFederal Republic of Germany (commonly known asWest Germany ).In
1946 , theSoviet Union stopped delivering agricultural products from their sector in Eastern Germany to the more industrial western sectors and zones. In return, the American military administrator,Lucius D. Clay , ceased transferring supplies and dismantled factories from theRuhr area to the Soviet sector. As a result of this, the Soviet Union started apublic relations campaign against American policy and began to obstruct the administrative work of all four sectors.The USA and the UK united their zones, creating Bizone, in order to advance the development of a new political order in Western Germany. Nevertheless, this was the first step that would eventually lead to the separation of Germany into
East Germany andWest Germany .British military deployments
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British Army of the Rhine (nowBritish Forces Germany )
*Royal Air Force Germany United States military deployments
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U.S. Seventh Army
*U.S. Third Army
*United States Air Forces in Europe External links
* [http://www.schatzkistl.de/souv6.html site of the modern version of "Wir sind die Eingeborenen von Trizonesien" (song used by the Trizone) in mp3]
* [http://www.usip.org/pubs/peaceworks/pwks49.html The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq, by Ray Salvatore Jennings] May 2003, Peaceworks No. 49,United States Institute of Peace
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