Did your ChatGPT produce it
No, I read it in a book by Henry Kissinger I picked up at the airport - "Leadership"-something, or "Leaders".
Kissinger talks about several leaders he worked with directly, Adenauer and De Gaulle were two of those.
France was still very paranoid after WW2 about a potentially resurgent Germany in the future.
The British somewhat less, but also wary of letting Germany become too strong again.
The Americans on the other hand insisted that the Western occupation zones be integrated, and power handed off to the Germans sooner rather than later. They also insisted that the Germans should be rearmed to the teeth.
These American proposals were not greeted well in France, to say the least.
However, the Berlin Blockade, and then the beginning of the Korean War, got the Cold War off to a rolling start. The French were far from building their own nukes yet, and the Americans basically explained to them that if they wanted to rely on American nuclear power for protection, they would have to play along with America's plans in Europe.
Quote from Adenauer:
"It was in the interest of the United States that Germany should become strong once more. Therefore, the many examples of discrimination, such as the Ruhr Statute, the Occupation Statute, and the provisions regarding the rearming of Germany, could only be of a transitory nature."American nukes got the French and Germans to put their 1,000 years of differences aside.