The Allies agreed to take charge of parts of Germany to oversee reconstruction of the country. The British took the west, the Soviets took the east, the Americans took the largest region and the...
After the WWII, Germany was divided into two parts. East Germany, controlled by the Sowjet Union and West Germany, controlled by the Allies. East Germany then became a socialist state and West...
At the end of World War II, the parts occupied by Britain, France and the United States became West Germany, the area under Soviet control became East Germany.
The division of Germany was forced on them at the end of World War II, and the cold war, but as far as the Germans were concerned they were always just one nation, forced to be two countries.