After the Reich : the brutal history of the Allied occupation / Giles MacDonogh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonogh, Giles, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Germany--History--1945-1955.

Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2007.

Summary:

When Hitler's government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates, as many as two million German women were raped by Soviet occupiers. General Eisenhower denied the Germans access to any foreign aid, meaning that German civilians were forced to subsist on about 1,200 calories a day. (American officials privately acknowledged at the time that the death rate amongs

Contents:

PRAISE FOR AFTER THE REICH; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chronology; Maps; [ Introduction ]; [ PART I ] Chaos; 1: The Fall of Vienna; 2: Wild Times: A Picture of Liberated Central Europe in 1945; 3: Berlin; 4: Expulsions from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia; 5: Home to the Reich! Recovered Territories in the Prussian East; [ PART II ] Allied Zones; Prologue; 6: Life in the Russian Zone; 7: Life in the American Zone; 8: Life in the British Zone; 9: Life in the French Zone; 10: Austria's Zones and Sectors; Photos; 11: Life in All Four Zones; [ PART III ] Crime and Punishment

12: Guilt; 13: Black Market; 14: Light Fingers; 15: Where are our Men?; 16: The Trials; 17: The Little Fish; [ PART IV ] The Road to Freedom; 18: Peacemaking in Potsdam; 19: The Great Freeze; 20: The Berlin Airlift and the Beginnings of Economic Recovery; [ Conclusion ]; Notes; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 2007 by John Murray (Publishers)".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-465-00620-5

0-7867-4422-7

OCLC:

784885609