1. Dividing Germany, 1945-1949 January 20, 2012

3. The Allied Control Council HQ, Berlin

4. The Allied Kommandatura, Berlin

5. The Nuremberg Trials (here: Albert Speer)

6. Street signs in Russian

7. Soviet victory monument, November 1945

8. Soviet dismantling in their sector

9. Walter Ulbricht

10. Communist poster in SW Germany

11. April 1946: the handshake uniting SPD and KPD

13. Denazification in the American zone: Germans sit in judgment

15. Konrad Adenauer as head of the Parliamentary Council (1948-49)

16. Kurt Schumacher

17. “Rubble women”

18. Ration cards in use

19. The black market: cigarettes as currency

20. CARE packages from America

21. The currency reform (June 20, 1948)

22. The “shop-window” miracle

23. The Soviet blockade of Berlin

24. General Lucius Clay

26. Allied planes at Tempelhof Airport

27. “Raisin bombers”

28. Mayor Ernst Reuter at the burned- out Reichstag, Aug. 1948

29. West Germany’s first federal elections (August 1949): CDU/CSU – 31.0% SPD – 29.2% FDP – 11.9% KPD – 5.7% Others – 22.3%

30. Adenauer sworn in as Chancellor (Sept. 1949)