Based on sources follow the questions. Make conclusion.
a. Look at the maps. Consider the situation of Germany after WWII. How Germany and Berlin was divided?
b. Look at the picture, recognize people in the photo. Who were they?
c. Read parts of the Potsdam Conference resolution, talk about the political and economic changes which were agreed to be implemented in Germany.
d. Which paragraphs of the quoted passages can be associated with changes of borders in post-war Europe? In which way?
SOURCE 1. The division of Germany into the Occupation Zones
Source 2. The Big Three
Source 3 The Potsdam Conference resolution (fragments)
THE PRINCIPLES TO GOVERN THE TREATMENT OF GERMANY IN THE INITIAL CONTROL PERIOD
A.POLITICAL PRINCIPLES […]
3. The purposes of the occupation of Germany by which the Control Council shall be guided are:
(i) The complete disarmament and demilitarization of Germany and the elimination or control of all German industry that could be used for military production. […]
(a) All German land, naval and air forces, the SS., SA., SD., and Gestapo […] shall be completely and finally abolished […]
(b) All arms, ammunition and implements of war and all specialized facilities for their production shall be held at the disposal of the Allies or destroyed […] all aircraft and all arms. ammunition and implements of war shall be prevented.
(ii) To convince the German people that they have suffered a total military defeat and that they cannot escape responsibility for what […] the fanatical Nazi resistance have destroyed German economy and made chaos and suffering […]
(iii) To destroy the National Socialist Party and its affiliated and supervised organizations, to dissolve all Nazi institutions, to ensure that they are not revived […]
4. All Nazi laws which provided the basis of the Hitler regime or established discriminations on grounds of race, creed, or political opinion shall be abolished. No such discriminations, whether legal, administrative or otherwise, shall be tolerated. […]
B. ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES.
12. […] the German economy shall be decentralized for the purpose of eliminating the present excessive concentration of economic power as exemplified in particular by cartels, syndicates, trusts and other monopolistic arrangements.
13. In organizing the German Economy, primary emphasis shall be given to the development of agriculture and peaceful domestic industries.
[…] The Three Governments, having considered the question in all its aspects, recognize that the transfer to Germany of German populations, […] Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, will have to be undertaken. They agree that any transfers that take place should be effected in an orderly and humane manner.
[…]The Czechoslovak Government, the Polish Provisional Government and the Control Council in Hungary are at the same time being informed […]