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101.	Resolution of the Second Party Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany on the Women’s Question (September 24, 1947) In East Germany, too, reconstruction and economic recovery depended on the deployment of women. In 1947, the SED propagated the unqualified equality of men and women in public life and the workplace.....
102.	The 6th Interzonal Trade Union Conference: Position of Women in the Economy, the Restructuring of Social Security (October 21-23, 1947) In the postwar period, just under half of all those employed in Germany were women. This was a new reality with which German unions had to come to terms. Previously, fears of labor market competition....
103.	The Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (October 21, 1947) The constitution of the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen of October 21, 1947, was noticeably more reform-oriented than the southern German constitutions when it came to education and the school system.....
104.	OMGUS Survey of German Opinions on the Socialization of Industry (November 1947) The most important Allied agreements on postwar Germany called for the nationalization of the economy, especially heavy industry, in order to prevent the concentration of economic power and the rearmament....
105.	The Bishop of the Protestant Church in Thuringia, Moritz Mitzenheim, on the Draft Bill about the Termination of Pregnancy (November 24, 1947) After 1945, there were efforts in the states of the Soviet occupation zone to reform § 218 of the Penal Code. The goal of these efforts was to permit abortion without punishment not only when the....
106.	Wolfgang Borchert: Draußen vor der Tür [The Man Outside], Review from Die Zeit (November 27, 1947) The writer Wolfgang Borchert was one of the most important representatives of the so-called Trümmerliteratur [Rubble Literature]. During the war, he was charged several times with undermining....
107.	Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, "People on the Train" (September 18, 1947) In this article, published in Die Zeit in September 1947, the journalist Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who herself had fled to West Germany in 1945 from her homeland in East Prussia, describes the....
108.	OMGUS Survey of German Reactions to Expellees and DPs (December 3, 1947) One of the biggest social challenges in all four occupation zones was the integration of Displaced Persons and ethnic German expellees from Eastern European regions that had belonged to Germany before....
109.	OMGUS Summary of Trends in German Public Opinion (December 17, 1947) The mood of the population in the American occupation zone declined over the course of 1946 and 1947. Difficult economic conditions meant that food and clothing were a central concern of growing....
110.	"30,000 People are Walking in Igelit Sandals" (1948) The development and use of substitutes for raw and basic materials in short supply had already played an important role during World War II. This continued in the postwar economy of scarcity. In....
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