Although central southern Germany was liberated from the Nazis by the US army , many of the postwar national frontiers of Europe had by that time already been agreed , albeit with varying levels of enthusiasm , by the leaders of the victorious nations . Most of the eastern part of Germany was passed to Poland and the eastern part of Poland was passed to the Soviet Union . What was left of Germany was to be divided into four allied occupation zones , and what had been the central portion of Germany was to be administered as the Soviet occupation zone . Respecting the agreement between President Roosevelt and General Secretary Stalin , in July 1945 the US army removed itself from the region and the Soviets moved in . Otto Gotsche was promptly installed as vice president of the regional administration to be based in Merseburg , with special responsibility for implementing land reform . Less than a year later , on 27 March 1946 , , the president of the Merseberg regional administration died , and Gotsche replaced him
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