HIS339H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
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Trials - the holocaust and mass murder of jews were not really brought up in trials - trials not about that. The defeat of germany and the early postwar years. 4 years after war - 4 separate german states, capitalist democratic and communist. West germany becomes one of the leading economic powers in the world: east germany - in soviet occupation, kind of depressive, recovered slowly. Repressive communist rule, undemocratic structures than germany in the east: by 1950s both german states started to re-arm. During the cold war period, germany becomes the front line. A country divided by cold-war politics and pawn of both sides: east germany held a number of draws and benefits, when the wall comes down - Allies engaged in this fire-bombing of german cities. Many germans in their defense was the way they suffered under allied bombings and the destruction of their cities by fire.
