ReckoningsApril 17, 2013

Hamburg burning, July 1943

Women and children sent to the countryside

Dresden,Feb. 1945

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

Walter Ulbricht

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