POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Denazification, One-Repetition Maximum, Totalitarianism
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Yalta feb 4-11, 1945, decided on: britain, america and russia. They agreed on the unconditional surrender of germany. Germany would be divided to four zones of occupation and they would have to pay reparations. Free and fair election in poland and european union. And above all europe would be devided into spheres of influence. Soviets would have influence in eastern europe and british and. Germany would lose territory (about 11%) of territory to poland. Territory would be give back to france. There would be an orderly and humane transfer of germans from eastern europe. Germany would be deindustrialized, denazified, decartelized, democratized, and demilitarized. Germany ended up dividing into 4 zones = russian, american, british, and french. Germany currency reform: 1deutsche mark = 1rm for essential currency (wages and rents) 1 dm = 10rm for the reminder in private non bank credit balance, everyone got 60dm. There started to be fair elections in western germany.
