Most of the items I see that are post-war imports are marked made in "occupied Germany" or "Western Germany".
The marking "Made in Germany" goes back to the British Merchandise Marks Act 1887, meant to denounce "inferior" foreign products. I have never seen a mark "occupied Germany". The marking "made in West Germany" only came into use after 1973. The West German High court (Bundesgerichtshof) then ruled that GDR products flooding the markets may also bear the mark Made in Germany as the commie GDR was also regarded as part of Germany by the West. Now German industry used the term "West" or "Western" to differentiate their products from the GDR ones. Take for instance Zeiss: In seveal countries optical equipment like scopes was sold by both Zeiss, Jena (GDR) and Zeiss west. Still later the GDR marked their products "Made in GDR" to show their socialist state having nothing to do with the capitalist Federal Republic.
