This book examines the great variety of experiences of the German people at the end of World War II, beginning with the frightening bombings, the passage of armies, the imprisonment of soldiers and civilians, the troop occupation of each of five separate zones, plus Berlin and Koenigsberg, and their impact on the defeated. This experience ranged from a liberation from the SS, to an enormous relief that the war's killing was over, to the rapings of women, particularly in the east, to a massive looting and destruction, again worst in the east, and the expulsion of millions from their ancestral homes. The beginnings of recovery and self-government in the four zones, moving particularly quickly in the American zone. The fundamental result everywhere: Hunger.
- ISBN10 0820413518
- ISBN13 9780820413518
- Publish Date 1 December 1990
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 375
- Language English