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unusual facts about Soviet occupation zone



Białystok Ghetto

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and took over the city within days.

DKW 3=6

The company was effectively refounded in West Germany in 1949, following the loss to the Soviets of its Zwickau assets.Three of the four businesses that had constituted Auto Union before the war seemed unlikely ever to reappear on either side of the Iron Curtain, but starting in 1949 the DKW name was used for the F89 assembled by Auto Union in the west: this was the model replaced by the 3=6.

Horst Sindermann

After 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), created from a forced merger of Communists and Social Democrats in the Soviet Occupation Zone.

Lwów Ghetto

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and a week later, on June 30, 1941 overran the city of Lwów.

Międzyrzec Podlaski

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on 22 June 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa.

Otto Suhr

He had to cope with the forceful SED merger of Social Democrats and Communists in the Soviet occupation zone and East Berlin, the Berlin Blockade and the final division of the city, when the assembly was compelled to move into the Rathaus Schöneberg in the American sector.

Prussian Privy State Archives

After the war, holdings that wound up in the Soviet occupation zone were moved relatively unscathed to a newly created German Central Archive housed in Merseburg, East Germany.

West Belarus

The corresponding terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed earlier in Moscow were broken, when the German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941.


see also

Asbach-Sickenberg

As a result of the 1945 Wanfried agreement, formerly Hessian Asbach-Sickenberg became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic.

Mühlviertel

During the Allied occupation of Austria after World War II, the Mühlviertel belonged to the Soviet occupation zone, while the rest of Upper Austria belonged to the American occupation zone.