defeat and occupation, 1945-1949
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Defeat and occupation, 1945-1949. Week 15, February 3. German destruction of Murmansk, 1943 ( Yevgeny Khaldei ). Germans losing the war. Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, last German offensive in the East Jews and other victims locked in the continent killing went on until May 1945 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Defeat and occupation, 1945-1949
Week 15, February 3
German destruction of Murmansk, 1943 (Yevgeny Khaldei)
Germans losing the war
• Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, last German offensive in the East Jews and other victims locked in the continent killing went on until May 1945
• D-Day, Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944• Warsaw uprising, August 1944• Operation Market Garden, Sep 1944: “a bridge too far”• Seelower Höhen/Battle of Seelow Heights, April 45• Torgau: Americans meet Soviets at the Elbe• May 8: German capitulation
Torgau, April 25, 1945
Soviet flag over the Reichstag(Yevgeny Khaldei)
Destruction of Berlin
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/288915/Foreign-Affair-A-Movie-Clip-One-Thing-At-A-Time.html
(A Foreign Affair, dir. Billy Wilder, 1948)
Sexual assaults of Allied soldiers
Four zones of occupied Germany
Four zones in Berlin
Nuremberg trials
(New) political parties
• CDU/CSU – social conservative Christian party• FDP -- liberals• SED (merged SPD and KPD in the East
Germany)• SPD in West Germany• System of large parties, unlike Weimar
Trümmerfrauen (rubble women)
Iron Curtain
Berlin blockade: Raising bomber
New lands