Dividing Germany, 1945-1949 January 20, 2012
Jan 20, 2016
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 Reuterat the burned-out Reichstag,Aug. 1948
West Germanys 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)