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The Establishment of Occupation Zones in Germany
On May 8, 1945, the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces
(Wehrmacht) was signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin, ending
World War II for Germany. The German people were suddenly confronted by
a situation never before experienced in their history: the entire German
territory was occupied by foreign armies, cities and infrastructure were
largely reduced to rubble, the country was flooded with millions of refugees
from the east, and large portions of the population were suffering from
hunger and the loss of their homes. The nation-state founded by Otto von
Bismarck in 1871, lay in ruins.
- The Establishment
of Occupation Zones
- The Nuremberg
Trials and Denazification
- Political Parties
and Democratization
- The Creation of the Bizone
- The Birth of the Federal Republic
of Germany
- The Birth of the German Democratic
Republic
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