Resources versus armies in postwar border making

When the Allies determined postwar borders for Germany, Japan, and Poland, did farmland and water availability shape the decisions?

Farmland and water received little weight compared with the military and political reality of where Allied armies stopped.

Farmland and water received little weight in this account of borders drawn after the Second World War. The decisive constraint was where Allied armies and tanks stopped at the end of the fighting. Military possession created political facts that the settlement then had to accommodate. Battlefield geography outweighed resource planning in the resulting diplomacy.