First, the British and American zones were combined into the quasi-state of Bizonia.

January 1: The American and British zones of control in Germany are united to form the Bizone also known as Bizonia.

Molotov also rejected the counter-offer to scrap the British-American "Bizonia" and to include the Soviet zone within the newly constructed Germany.

In 1946, Lorna transferred to British Embassy in Washington, D.C., and worked with Americans to administer Bizonia.

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.

After World War II in 1945, Württemberg was split between Württemberg-Baden in Bizonia, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern in the French zone.

Britain had very limited resources at the end of World War II, and in 1946, Britain and the US agreed to administer their districts jointly, under a scheme called Bizonia.

Yet, as an American historian has explained, the negotiations leading to bizonia provided the British with "ample evidence to disabuse them of any misconceptions that American policy in Germany was devised to aid Great Britain".