ReckoningsApril 17, 2013
Hamburg burning, July 1943
Women and children sent to the countryside
Nemmersdorf, East Prussia, October 1944:Soviet vengeance begins
Refugees flee the Red Army
Street signs in Russian
Soviet victory monument (completed by end of 1945)
The “Big Three” at Potsdam, August 1945
Flight & expulsion of
ethnic Germans, 1944-1950
Lost provinces: Pomerania, Silesia,
East Prussia, & more
Zones of Occupation
(and the sectors of
Berlin)
Opening session of the Nuremberg Trials (Nov. 20, 1945)
Soviet dismantling in
their sector
Communist poster in southwest Germany
April 1946: the handshake uniting SPD and KPD
Denazification questionnaire
Denazification in the American zone: Germans sit in judgment
GIs handing out candy