History 346: Lecture--Occupied Germany and the Origins of the Cold War
Outline
Soviet Rapine and the Destruction in Germany
Wartime Conferences
Morgenthau Plan
Potsdam Accords: Political Provision
- disarmament and demilitarization
- democratization
- decentralization
Potsdam Accords: Economic Provisions
- no armaments
- breakup of cartels
- promotion of peacetime industries
- Allied control over economy
- Reconstruction of basic facilities
- management of Germany as a single economic unit
Potsdam Accords: Territorial provisions
- Königsberg
- Oder-Neisse Line
- "ethnic cleansing"
Denazification
War Crimes Trials: Nuremberg (2) and Others
Results of Potsdam Accords
Currency Reform and the Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Names, terms, acronyms
Königsberg, Oder-Neisse Line, Lucius D. Clay, George Marshall, Clement Attlee, Harry S Truman,
Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials: Göring, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Sauckel, Jodl, Seyss-Inquart and Bormann; Göring committed suicide, Bormann's body missing until 1973
Sentenced to life in prison: Hess, Funk and Raeder
Sentenced to prison terms: Dönitz, Schirach, Speer, and Neurath
Acquitted: Schacht, Papen, and Fritzsche
