Bizone

The Bizone or Bizonia was the combination of the American and the British occupation zones in 1947 during the occupation of Germany after World War II. With the addition of the French occupation zone on the first of June 1948 the entity became the Trizone (sometimes jokingly called Trizonesia, as, for example, in a well-known Karneval song from that time, the Trizonesien-Song). Later, on 23 May 1949, the Trizone became the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly known as West Germany.

History

The Soviet Union, which encouraged and partly carried out the post-war expulsions of Germans from the areas under its rule, stopped delivering agricultural products from its zone in Germany to the more industrial western zones, thereby failing to fulfill its obligations under the Potsdam Agreements to provide supplies for the expellees, whose possessions had been confiscated. At Potsdam, it had been agreed that 15% of all equipment dismantled in the Western zones — especially from the metallurgical, chemical, and machine manufacturing industries — would be transferred to the Soviets in return for food, coal, potash (a basic material for fertilisers), timber, clay products, petroleum products, etc. The Western deliveries had started in 1946.

Cyana

Cyana is a genus of moths in the Arctiidae family.

Selected species

Bizone (disambiguation)

Bizone can refer to: