Editing Berlin Wall (section)

===Post-war Germany===
[[File:Allied occupation in Berlin (1945-1990).png|thumb|400px|The occupied sectors of Berlin]]
After the [[end of World War II in Europe]], what remained of pre-war Germany west of the [[Oder-Neisse line]] was divided into four occupation zones (as per the [[Potsdam Agreement]]), each one controlled by one of the four occupying [[Allies of World War II|Allied powers]]: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the [[Soviet Union]]. The capital, [[Berlin]], as the seat of the [[Allied Control Council]], was similarly subdivided into four sectors despite the city's location, which was fully within the Soviet zone.<ref name="miller4">{{Harvnb|Miller|2000|pp=4–5}}</ref>

Within two years, political divisions increased between the Soviets and the other occupying powers. These included the Soviets' refusal to agree to reconstruction plans making post-war Germany self-sufficient, and to a detailed accounting of industrial plants, goods and infrastructure—some of which had already been removed by the Soviets.<ref name="miller16">{{Harvnb|Miller|2000|p=16}}</ref> France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the [[Benelux]] countries later met to combine the non-Soviet zones of Germany into one zone for reconstruction, and to approve the extension of the [[Marshall Plan]].<ref name="cnn.com"/>