dividing germany, 1945-1949 january 20, 2012
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Dividing Germany, 1945-1949 January 20, 2012. The Allied Control Council HQ, Berlin. The Allied Kommandatura, Berlin. The Nuremberg Trials (here: Albert Speer). Street signs in Russian. Soviet victory monument, November 1945. Soviet dismantling in their sector. Walter Ulbricht. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dividing Germany, 1945-1949January 20, 2012
The Allied Control Council HQ, Berlin
The Allied Kommandatura, Berlin
The Nuremberg Trials (here: Albert Speer)
Street signs in Russian
Soviet victory monument, November 1945
Soviet dismantling
in their sector
Walter Ulbricht
Communist poster in SW Germany
April 1946: the handshake unitingSPD and KPD
Denazification in the American zone:Germans sit in judgment
Konrad Adenauer as head of theParliamentary Council (1948-49)
Kurt Schumacher
“Rubble women”
Ration cards in use
The black market: cigarettes as currency
CARE packagesfrom America
The currency reform (June 20, 1948)
The “shop-window” miracle
The Soviet blockade of Berlin
General Lucius Clay
Allied planes at Tempelhof Airport
“Raisin bombers”
Mayor Ernst Reuter
at the burned-out Reichstag,
Aug. 1948
West Germany’s first federal elections(August 1949):
CDU/CSU – 31.0%SPD – 29.2%FDP – 11.9%KPD – 5.7%
Others – 22.3%
Adenauer sworn in as Chancellor (Sept. 1949)