1. Denazification "Laundry"



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1. Denazification "Laundry"

  • 1. Denazification "Laundry"

  • 2. Demilitarization

    • The Morgenthau plan (never policy, but feared) The Morgenthau Plan by the Allied occupation of Germany following World War II was a proposal to eliminate Germany's ability to wage war by eliminating its arms industry, and the removal or destruction of other key industries basic to military strength.
    • Denazification ("… is like delousing")
    • West/US: Nuremberg Trials; Hitler
    • Soviet: remove structural causes of Nazism


3. Decartelization: break up the corporate conglomerates (IG Farben, Krupp, Siemens, ...)

  • 3. Decartelization: break up the corporate conglomerates (IG Farben, Krupp, Siemens, ...)

  • 4. Decentralization (federation of states)

  • 5. Democratization: What and How?



The USSR’s aims

  • The USSR’s aims

  • By the winter of 1944–45, Stalin’s immediate priorities were clear. He wanted security for the USSR and reparations from the Axis powers to help rebuild the Soviet economy.

  • To protect the USSR against any future German attack, Stalin was determined to regain the land the USSR had annexed in 1939–40 and lost during the course of the war, including:

  • land that the Soviet Union had annexed from Poland in 1939; in compensation, Poland would be given German territory that lay beyond the Oder River

  • the Baltic provinces of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

  • territory lost to Finland in 1941

  • Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Romania.



●  An ‘intermediate zone’, which was neither fully communist nor fully capitalist, comprising Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Finland.

  • ●  An ‘intermediate zone’, which was neither fully communist nor fully capitalist, comprising Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Finland.

  • The communists would share power there with the liberal, moderate socialist and peasant parties. IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE IN A COMMUNIST STATE ?

  • These areas would act as a ‘ bridge’ between Soviet-controlled eastern Europe and western Europe and the US.

  • ●  A non-communist western Europe, which would also include Greece.









Given their relative strength, the USA and USSR came to dominate, creating a ‘bipolar’ international system.

  • Given their relative strength, the USA and USSR came to dominate, creating a ‘bipolar’ international system.

  • They would dictate the post-war settlement in Europe however during this process, the Grand Alliance set-up during the war collapsed.

  • By 1949, the Cold War had come into existence. This would last for forty years until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.



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