The "Wanfried Agreement" (German: "Wanfrieder Abkommen") refers to the transfer of territory between the occupied areas of the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II in Hesse, Germany, which place after the main inter-German border was finally defined at the end of July 1945. The agreement A railway line running through the North American area between the cities of Bremen, Hannover and Bebra crossed a small portion (about 3 km / 2 miles) from the Soviet area near Neuseesen and Werleshausen (Thuringia). This situation caused traffic cuts on the line, which was important to the USA as a link between its occupied area in southern Germany and a small US-controlled enclave at the North Sea port in Bremerhaven.
On September 17, 1945, an agreement was signed in the city of Wanfried between the US and Soviet authorities that moved the border to solve the problem. After closing the deal, the officers who participated in it exchanged bottles of whiskey and vodka, and since then that railway line was known as a joke as the "Whiskey-Wodka-Linie" (in German).
Brigadier General W.T. Sexton of the United States Army signed the Wanfried agreement from the USA, while Lieutenant General V.S. Askepalov signed by the Soviet Union.
The Hessian peoples of Asbach-Sickenberg, Vatterode, and Weidenbach / Hennigerode (Kreis Witzenhausen) with 429 inhabitants and 7.61 km² of territory passed to the Soviet area. The Neuseesen and Werlesausen villages, with 560 inhabitants and 8.45 km² in the Eichsfeld region, were transferred to the North American area.
Although other small exchanges took place later on the inter-German border, only the Wanfried Agreement had the status of a treaty between the occupying powers, and was considered to be on an equal footing with the Potsdam Agreement.
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