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Wartime Destruction in German Cities (Graphic Map from 1947)
At the end of the war, a great many German cities were in ruins from Allied bombing raids and ground fighting. The destruction and housing loss were especially severe in West Germany’s industrial....
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Newspaper Article about Children of African-American Members of the Allied Forces (1951)
From 1945 to 1955, tens of thousands of occupation children were born in West Germany. They were the children of German women and foreign occupation soldiers and were usually born out of wedlock.....
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Two Articles from Neue Berliner Illustrierte (1956)
These two articles reassured readers that looking good and having fun were by no means incompatible with Socialism and the Socialist way of life.
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Protocol on Zones of Occupation and the Administration of "Greater Berlin" (September 12, 1944)
It was at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 that U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
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The Allied Governments on the Zones of Occupation and the Administration of "Greater Berlin" (July 26, 1945)
In the summer of 1945, the victorious powers amended the protocol of September 12, 1944: ....
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OMGUS Survey of Trends in German Public Opinion (1945-47)
Between October 1945 and April 1947, the Americans conducted a series of interviews involving more than 75,000 individuals. The interviews were held in the American zone and in the American and British....
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OMGUS Survey of Trends in German Public Opinion (1945-48)
Between October 1945 and January 1948, the Americans carried out opinion polls in their occupation zone and in West Berlin on general trends in politics, the economy, and society. The results showed....
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The Psychological and Physical Condition of Prisoners of War Returning from the East (undated report)
At the end of World War II, millions of German men were being held as prisoners of war in Allied camps. While the Western Allies released their prisoners fairly quickly, the Soviet Union put its....
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Report of the Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 4-11, 1945)
When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Crimea for the Yalta Conference in early February 1945,....
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OMGUS Survey on Political Views (1945-46)
This survey of political views was taken in the American zone in the winter of 1945-46; among other findings, it shows that a clear majority of respondents – presumably soured by the negative experiences....
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