Slides for September 23 and 25

October 14 and 16

The End of World War II and the Post-War Settlement

The destroyed Reichstag sits in the background while the lawn is used for gardens during the starvation years of 1945-1947

 


Scale of Germans relocated due to Potsdam Conference

Atlee, Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference

The division of Germany into occupation zones

An American plane landing at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Blockade

The defendants at the Nuremberg Trials - including Goering (upper left)

 

NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War

Destruction of housing, sanitation, and services in Germany after the war

 

 

 

 

 

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The image of housing in Germany is from globalsecurity.org.