imposed on the Germans. In 1951, with the ending of the Cold war, Germany was able to gain much of the control of the area that they had lost, even though pooling of Germany’s coal and Steel into a multinational community was permanently limited.
As the Allies confiscated most of Germany’s intellectual property, all patents, in both Germany and an abroad. They licensed them to Allied companies and used them to strengthen their own respective industrial c competitiveness.
America, immediately after the German surrender, began to pursue a program that allowed them to gain all scientific know-how and all German Patents. This continued for two years after the war ended.
In the book, “Science Technology and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder …show more content…
The mortality rate in Germany following the war was very high as the nutritional levels were very low. It was ensured that, during 1945, no international aid reached ethnic Germans, by the US forces of the occupation. Instead, all aid was directed to non-German displaced persons, liberated Allied prisoners of war, and concentration camp inmates.
It was estimated that non-German refugees or displaced persons received up to 2300 calories from emergency food imports and the red cross, while the average German civilians in the US and Great Britain occupation Zones, received only 1200 calories a day. With the existence of these conditions, it was acknowledged that, while German adult deaths were 4 times than that of the pre-war amount, the number of death of German Children were 10 times the pre-war amount.
As the control on supplies and travel were strict, international relief organizations like the Red Cross were not allowed to help the Germans. However, the allied powers did allow some agencies like the indigenous Carittasverband to help, however, these agencies were not allowed to use imported …show more content…
The last casualty record in Norway shows that by this time, 275 German soldiers were killed and 392 were maimed during the clearing of minefields. The percentages of German civilians that were killed or maimed, while working as forced labour in the Soviet Union are between 19% and 39%.
In “The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949”, written by author Norman Nainmark, states that in the months following the surrender of Germany, the number of women and Girls raped and assaulted by the Red army are most probably in the thousands, and can be as high 2,000,000. Author Nainmen states in his book that, “The social psychology of women and men in the soviet zone of occupation was marked by the crime of rape until the first days of occupation, through the founding of the GDR in the fall of 1949.”
The German civilians had to face a lot of hostility after the war. Such hostility can be shown through the German Children that were sired by German soldiers.
As the Allies confiscated most of Germany’s intellectual property, all patents, in both Germany and an abroad. They licensed them to Allied companies and used them to strengthen their own respective industrial c competitiveness.
America, immediately after the German surrender, began to pursue a program that allowed them to gain all scientific know-how and all German Patents. This continued for two years after the war ended.
In the book, “Science Technology and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder …show more content…
The mortality rate in Germany following the war was very high as the nutritional levels were very low. It was ensured that, during 1945, no international aid reached ethnic Germans, by the US forces of the occupation. Instead, all aid was directed to non-German displaced persons, liberated Allied prisoners of war, and concentration camp inmates.
It was estimated that non-German refugees or displaced persons received up to 2300 calories from emergency food imports and the red cross, while the average German civilians in the US and Great Britain occupation Zones, received only 1200 calories a day. With the existence of these conditions, it was acknowledged that, while German adult deaths were 4 times than that of the pre-war amount, the number of death of German Children were 10 times the pre-war amount.
As the control on supplies and travel were strict, international relief organizations like the Red Cross were not allowed to help the Germans. However, the allied powers did allow some agencies like the indigenous Carittasverband to help, however, these agencies were not allowed to use imported …show more content…
The last casualty record in Norway shows that by this time, 275 German soldiers were killed and 392 were maimed during the clearing of minefields. The percentages of German civilians that were killed or maimed, while working as forced labour in the Soviet Union are between 19% and 39%.
In “The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949”, written by author Norman Nainmark, states that in the months following the surrender of Germany, the number of women and Girls raped and assaulted by the Red army are most probably in the thousands, and can be as high 2,000,000. Author Nainmen states in his book that, “The social psychology of women and men in the soviet zone of occupation was marked by the crime of rape until the first days of occupation, through the founding of the GDR in the fall of 1949.”
The German civilians had to face a lot of hostility after the war. Such hostility can be shown through the German Children that were sired by German soldiers.