Dividing Germany, 1945-1949 January 20, 2012. The Allied Control Council HQ, Berlin.

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Dividing Germany, January 20, 2012

The Allied Control Council HQ, Berlin

The Allied Kommandatura, Berlin

The Nuremberg Trials (here: Albert Speer)

Street signs in Russian

Soviet victory monument, November 1945

Soviet dismantling in their sector

Walter Ulbricht

Communist poster in SW Germany

April 1946: the handshake uniting SPD and KPD

Denazification in the American zone: Germans sit in judgment

Konrad Adenauer as head of the Parliamentary Council ( )

Kurt Schumacher

“Rubble women”

Ration cards in use

The black market: cigarettes as currency

CARE packages from America

The currency reform (June 20, 1948)

The “shop-window” miracle

The Soviet blockade of Berlin

General Lucius Clay

Allied planes at Tempelhof Airport

“Raisin bombers”

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

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

Adenauer sworn in as Chancellor (Sept. 1949)