Aftermath of World War II in Germany

public holidays in Russia and ex-USSR

Denazification () was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Party or SS members from positions of power and influence, by disbanding or rendering impotent the organizations associated with Nazism, and by trying prominent Nazis for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials of 1946. The program of denazification was launched after the end of the war and was solidified by the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945. The term, in the hyph

1945 historical document

exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950

German-Polish border since World War II

post-WWII destabilization plan for Germany

French protectorate over German Saarland, 1947–56

300px|thumb|The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of post-war West German reconstruction. The pictured example is a one-off version manufactured to celebrate the production of a million cars of the type.

zone of Soviet occupation in postwar Germany

thumb|Werwolf Pennon|pennant with the [[Wolfsangel symbol in horizontal form]]

military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany

former eastern territories of Germany that became part of Poland

day Soviet and American troops met for the first time in Nazi Germany

eastern territories lost by Germany after World War I and then World War II

aspect of history, when Germany was divided into two separate states

HIAG () was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Its main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS.

post–Second World War annexation of West German territory by the Netherlands

Zero hour (German: Stunde Null) is a term referring to midnight on 8 May 1945 in Germany. It marked the end of World War II in Europe and the start of a new, non-Nazi Germany.

thumb|upright 0.85|Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, July 1946

October 1956 international treaty

population expulsion 1945...1946

forced labor in the aftermath of the World War II

internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950

collective guilt attributed to Germany

centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions

Military Triumph Parade in 1945

1949-1955 military overseers of West Germany

aspect of history

former state of the German Democratic Republic

organization

treaty restoring some sovereign powers to Germany after WW2

reparations paid by Germany

1946 speech by U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes

The Rheinwiesenlager (; ) were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE), they held between one and almost two million surrendered Wehrmacht personnel from April until September 1945.

internment of German nationals and ethnic Germans in the United States during both World Wars

former government in Germany

library

aspect of German history

Germans who fled or were expelled from territory annexed or occupied by the Soviet Union after World War II

United States program to help build up the military of West Germany after World War II

unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including all islands, in Denmark and all naval ships in those areas

1949 assembly election in East Germany

international organization

post-World War II organisation thought to have helped certain Nazi war criminals escape justice

The Schnez-Truppe or Schnez Organisation was an illegal clandestine paramilitary organisation formed in West Germany in 1949 by veterans of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS under the leadership of Albert Schnez. The paramilitary was intended to fight against the Soviet Union in the event of an invasion or German communists in a civil war. It has been reported as having been founded with a membership of some 2,000 former officers; later obtaining a total strength of up to 40,000 members.

forcible deportation of Germans from the Netherlands after World War II

1954 territorial settlement between France and West Germany

subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone and one of the states of East Germany

1953 West German law on ethnic German refugees

historical documents from the time when Germany was governed by the Allies

refugee camp

war crimes trial

Persilschein is a German idiom and literally means "Persil ticket" ("Persil" refers to a brand of laundry detergent). To own or have a Persilschein is akin to having "a clean bill of health" and may refer to the granting of a wide-ranging permission or "carte blanche" to pursue a business or a previously morally or legally suspect interest.

Soviet order about forced labor of Germans in the wake of World War II

plans to annex German territory

West German Neo-Nazi organization

state of East Germany

planned explosion that occurred in Helgoland Archipelago