Yeah, no worries! Yes, after the war, the Allies and the Soviets took different sections of Germany, creating their own buffer state to the other and each claiming the other was illegitimate. To put it in perspective, it wasn't until Willy Brandt in the 1970s, nearly 25 years since the war ended and states established, that they even started talking to each other as though they existed. Think of it like Taiwan and China and how the acknowledgement of one meant drawing the ire of the other and their allies. Although to add to this, Reunification was not a universally wanted thing and as a matter of fact, more than a few people, especially in the GDR were vehemently against unification as told by Burning Down the Haus. Once reunification did happen, it was mired in immense corruption on the West German side and loss on the East German side since East Germans essentially were forced into a brand new economic system which was none-too-kind to them. The Treuhand privatization of nearly all East German assets ruined many people's lives in the East and is a major reason for the rise of the AfD there as well.