HIST 2403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Berlin Wall, Decartelization, Denazification

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2403
• Professor: Penny Glenn

Document Summary

everyone was a victim during the war, even the germans the us was responsible for dropping a million tons of bombs on germany, 80% in the last 2 years of the war half a million germans perished (yes, they are victims) (the book. February 13th, 1945 (heaviest allied attack of the war) (40,000 citizens dead) the soviets took over buchenwald concentration camp in soviet occupied. Germany and used it as a gulag for 10 years after the war germany surrenders on at brandenburg, may 8th, 1945 germany was divided into 4 zones: soviet zone, us zone, british zone, and a little french zone along the french/german border berlin was also divided into 4 different zones, until 1989 when the berlin. berlin was in ruins in 1945, almost every building was bombed out, citizens left to scavenge for themselves in the streets 6. 5 to 7. 5 million displaced persons in berlin/germany after wwii nuremberg trials take a year in nuremberg, germany