how did second world war changed Germany?
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With World War II Germany has brought unbearable suffering und destruction over Europe. About 60 million people were killed – among them more than 5 million Germans, but about 55 million people from other nations. Two thirds of the dead were civilians – among them six million jews.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on the 30 of April 1945. On the 8th of Mai in Reims and on the 9th of Mai in Berlin Germany’s military signed the inconditional capitulation. It was Germany’s worst defeat ever.
At the end of the nazi regime Germany was almost totally destroyed. 12 million Germans were refugees – mostly from regions in the East that did not belong to Germany any more after the war – and looking for a new home.
The responsibility for WWII and the German guilt have shaped the role of German politicians and citizens in Europe for decades.
Never again: Holocaust and anti-semitism
Holocaust (the Greek word for “burnt”) or Shoah (the hebraic word for “catastrophy”) means the mass murder of six millions Jews or of people that the Nazi regime considered as Jews.
It was declared aim of the nazis to ban all Jews from Europe. They called it the “end solution of the Jewish question” that led to industrial mass murder. The symbol of this genocide is the nazi death camp Auschwitz in Southern Poland.
Jews, but also Sinti, Roma, homosexuals and political opponents were persecuted by the Nazi regime. The worst horror were the organised mass shootings and death by gaz of Jews from all over Europe.
When the Red Army and then the Allied Forces liberated the concentration camps at the end of the war the degree of the crimes became visible.
The Allies tried to bring to justice the responsibles for the Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials.
Since the end of World War II after the juridical process, Germany wants to come to terms with antisemitism. The denial of the Holocaust is punished by justice.
The shoah also explains a very special relationship between Germany and Israel, where Yad Vashem in Jerusalem remembers the six million murdered Jews.
Cold war and two German states
At the Potsdam Conference between 17 July and 2 August 1945 US President Harry S. Truman, the Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their foreign ministers decided the denazification, democratization and demilitarization of Germany.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on the 30 of April 1945. On the 8th of Mai in Reims and on the 9th of Mai in Berlin Germany’s military signed the inconditional capitulation. It was Germany’s worst defeat ever.
At the end of the nazi regime Germany was almost totally destroyed. 12 million Germans were refugees – mostly from regions in the East that did not belong to Germany any more after the war – and looking for a new home.
The responsibility for WWII and the German guilt have shaped the role of German politicians and citizens in Europe for decades.
Never again: Holocaust and anti-semitism
Holocaust (the Greek word for “burnt”) or Shoah (the hebraic word for “catastrophy”) means the mass murder of six millions Jews or of people that the Nazi regime considered as Jews.
It was declared aim of the nazis to ban all Jews from Europe. They called it the “end solution of the Jewish question” that led to industrial mass murder. The symbol of this genocide is the nazi death camp Auschwitz in Southern Poland.
Jews, but also Sinti, Roma, homosexuals and political opponents were persecuted by the Nazi regime. The worst horror were the organised mass shootings and death by gaz of Jews from all over Europe.
When the Red Army and then the Allied Forces liberated the concentration camps at the end of the war the degree of the crimes became visible.
The Allies tried to bring to justice the responsibles for the Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials.
Since the end of World War II after the juridical process, Germany wants to come to terms with antisemitism. The denial of the Holocaust is punished by justice.
The shoah also explains a very special relationship between Germany and Israel, where Yad Vashem in Jerusalem remembers the six million murdered Jews.
Cold war and two German states
At the Potsdam Conference between 17 July and 2 August 1945 US President Harry S. Truman, the Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their foreign ministers decided the denazification, democratization and demilitarization of Germany.
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