HIS317H1 Lecture Notes - Erich Honecker, Stasi, Walter Ulbricht
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Exam- three essays, set of 8 questions, three will be picked. The long postwar: west and east germany, 1948-1961/68. Amnesia and the economic miracle: west germany in the 1950s: the zero hour. Allied to the different superpowers: west german resurrection, the raisin bombers and the basic law. Denazification is scrapped in 1947-48 bc of cold war. Decisions made that west germany was to be brought quickly to its feet to protect europe from communism. Barter economy- black market was extensive in germany after war. Stalin uses force now to severe west berlin from east berlin. Only way to get in from air. Us supplies west berlin from the air for a year. Planes of us called raisin bombers, non military uses. Sept 9th 1948 makes speech in front of old german. Berlin was no longer nazi capital, become symbol of free world, on border of communist enemy. Constituion of west german was called basic law.
