1.1.1 The Division and Creation of Post-War Germany

Cards (3)

  • By 1945, 4 million Germans were dead, 7 million were prisoners of war or missing and many of its cities were destroyed
  • The 1945 Yalta Conference decided that Germany would be divided into 4 zones and established the Allied Control Council
  • Potsdam Conference (1945) agreed to:
    1. De-Nazification
    2. Demilitarisation
    3. Deindustrialisation
    4. Democratisation