 Complete the following phrase:  War ended, formally, in May 1945. Düsseldorf and the surrounding region now formed part of the British occupation zone, which in May 1949 would be merged with US and French occupation zones to be relaunched as the a hrefGerman20Federal20RepublicGerman Federal Republic Bundesreuplik Deutschland  BRD  West Germanya. Maria Wachter was released. She took a secretarial job in Düsseldorf and renewed her membership of the Communist Party. However, with the intensification of Cold War tensions that followed the 1953 uprising in East Germany and accompanied 