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The Emergence of the two Germanies
- Yalta
- Approved plans for the occupation
and administration of Germany
- Germany and Berlin
split into four Zones
- Agreed there would be a
aim of Unification
- Polish borders
remained Undecided
- The Four D's
- Denazification
- Decentralisation
- Demilitarisation
- Democratisation
- Disagreements
over Reparations
- Potsdam
- Germany would pay
$20billion in Reparations
- Control Council Established
- Policies were reiterated, no
progress made towards
Reunification
- Borders between Germany
and Poland Agreed
- 7million brutally Deported
- Denazification
- Nuremburg Trials
- 21 most prominent
nazis on Trial
- Goring
- Hess
- von Papen
- Done in the public Eye
- Showed the allies were
trying to do something
about the Nazi Past
- Uncovered previously
secret Acts
- Further Trials
- Conviction of 23 doctors, conducted
experiments at concentration Camps
- Findings appalled people, detached
from what had Happened
- Refused to accept Responsibility
- Trials continued
as new evidence
came to Light
- East
- 520,000 prominent Nazis Purged (On Soviet Terms)
- Major part of
Reconstruction
- Former Nazi teachers Dismissed
- Firms taken off former Nazis
- Restrictions on
non-criminals lifted by 1952
- West
- Nazis were rounded up, each case
handled individually by Merit
- Persil certificates issued to those who
hadn't directly committed a Crime
- Whitewashing
of the Past
- Fargebogen, a questionnaire
that categorised People
- Re-educated based
on Results
- Allied courts dealt with the easy Cases
- Harder cases left and
abolished in 1951
- Effects
- Most Nazis only temporarily Removed
- No immediate re-emergence of Nazism
- All accepted some form of Responsibility
- Re-educations meant many
were able to continue with Life
- Minimal material to show
how bad the past Was
- Politics
- Soviet Zone
- Local governments
setup under Ulbricht
- Everything would appear
democratic but they would
have complete Control
- German language radio Stations &
Free German Youth Established
- KPD and SPD forced to
merge, forming SED
- West
- Policies supported
denazification, mainly
Re-Education
- Party permits favoured, emergence
of CDU, SPD, KPD, FDP etc.
- CDU and SPD
dominated, couldn't
rule without Coalition
- Minor parties (less than
5% vote) Disbanded
- Democratisation
- Successful in the West
- Difficult to properly Achieve
- Economy
- Faced big task of rebuilding
war-torn Germany
- Soviet Zone
- Initially took as many reparations
as possible, 3x Agreed
- Single state bank, nationalisation, higher
taxes & planning schemes all Introduced
- Collectivisation (State run Farms)
- Economic plan for a single
East German state Created
- West
- Difficulties, balancing reparations,
future war tech and Needs
- Level of Industry Plan
- Living standards and output
capped at 50% 1938 Level
- Allies creations of a single
economic unit (excluded USSR)
- Revised 1938 (75% output)
- Bizonia
- Truman Doctrine and Marshall
Plan, rebuilding Europe
- Only minor changes
to economic Policy
- Merging of
economic activity,
step towards
Division
- Division
- Build Up
- Failed meetings in
London and Moscow
- US, Britain and France
formed Trizonia, USSR
tried to gain the
support of the GDR
- Currency Reforms
- Central Bank, strong
stable Currency
- Made effective in Trizonia, not Berlin until Later
- Berlin Blockade & Airlift
- Soviets blockaded Berlin to mark their
disapproval for the Currency Reforms
- August 1948
- Blockaded all road and rail links into Berlin
- Trizonia embarked on a mass
airlift, keep hold of Berlin
- Operation later expanded through
resilience, made more Efficient
- Through a counter blockade
of goods, lifted in May 1949
- FRG & GDR
- As Trizonia continued
to developed divisions
began to Emerge
- Introduction of a constitution
& election in FRG, led the
Soviets to react in GDR
- After GDR established police
and a communist government,
SMAD declared Independence