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Post-War Reformation in Germany: Society Rebuilt

Explore post-war Germany through denazification, allied plans, and societal recovery. Learn about the Morgenthau Plan, division strategies, and political parties. Witness the Currency Reform of 1948 and the Marshall Plan.

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Post-War Reformation in Germany: Society Rebuilt

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  1. Writers, Media and Society in Contemporary Germany • Lebendiges Museum online: http://www.dhm.de/lemo/

  2. The Restoration of West German Society • Germany at the “Zero Hour” • Allied Plans for Germany and particularly Denazification • Restoration of German State & Society

  3. Cologne, 1945 and from the air (right)

  4. Dresden, after the bombing 13-15 Feb, 1945

  5. Dresden,right the Altmarkt

  6. Nuremberg, 1945

  7. Frankfurt (left) and Berlin (right)

  8. Würzburg (left) and Pfortzheim (right)

  9. Trümmerfrauen, 1945

  10. Handbill 1946, offering a children’s bed in exchange for potatoes

  11. Germany 1937

  12. Germany, 1945

  13. Henry J.Morgenthau, US treasury secretary, Jan 1934 - July 1945 • Morgenthau Plan: • permanent division of Germany into several pieces • end of all higher education • destruction and future prohibition of all heavy industry • official Allied policy Sept 1944 to Spring 1945 but never put into practice

  14. Germany after the Potsdam conference, July 17 to Aug 2, 1945

  15. Oder-Neisse-Border 1945

  16. Poland’s old and new borders, 1945

  17. Poland (red) 1939 and 1945

  18. German speaking population before WWII

  19. German speaking population after WWII

  20. German occupation zones in 1946

  21. The four ‘D’s • Denazification • Demilitarisation • Decartelisation (breaking up of large industrial conglomerates) • Democatisation

  22. Denazification • Law for Liberation divides all German into 5 categories: major offenders, offenders, lesser offenders, followers (Mitläufer), non-offenders. • ‘Der Fragebogen’

  23. Political parties • Social Democrats (SPD) • Communist party (KPD) • Centre Party (Zentrum) • Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with its Bavarian sister Christian SocialUnion (CSU). • Liberals (FDP)

  24. European Recovery Programme (ERP) or Marshall-Plan • Established 12.7.1947 • Grants and cheap loans for European countries • Purpose: warding off communism

  25. Currency reform 1948,enabling the Wirtschaftswunder • Introduced by Ludwig Erhard, director of Wirtschaftsrat, 21.6.1949 • Exchange rate 10 Reichsmark = 1 Deutsche mark

  26. The Berlin airlift (Luftbrücke), 1948-1949a ‘Rosinenbomber’ • Berlin Blockade, June 1945 - May 1946

  27. Adenauer signing the Grundgesetz, 1949

  28. CDU election poster with Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), chancellor 1949-63

  29. Ludwig Erhard (CDU), first economic minister in Adenauer’s government 1949, chancellor 1961-1964

  30. Theodor Heuss, 1884-1963first Bundespräsident, 1949-59

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