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Former borders were used to help decide where the sector borders should lie. Hitler’s system of power was to be destroyed once and for all by dividing the country. At the Yalta conference in February 1945, it was decided that an Allied Control Council would be established and should govern Germany. The Allies assumed that there would be no division of power amongst the individual zones, but that they would be governed together.
On 2nd August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement by the Allies aimed to reconstruct Germany, both socially and politically. This meant democratisation of the political system, demilitarisation and denazification, radical changes to the economy and decentralisation in politics, administration and the economy. However, it became clear during the Potsdam Conference that the powers, once united, would find it difficult to agree how to govern Germany and that such an agreement was no longer possible.
The effects of conflicting interests became clear in the subsequent period, especially when looking at the varying political and economical systems put in place. In the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), social economical conditions changed and became the basis for a people’s democracy according to the Soviet model.