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After the Reich : the brutal history of the Allied occupation /
When Hitler's government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Basic Books,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When Hitler's government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates, as many as two million German women were raped by Soviet occupiers. General Eisenhower denied the Germans access to any foreign aid, meaning that German civilians were forced to subsist on about 1,200 calories a day. (American officials privately acknowledged at the time that the death rate among. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786744220 0786744227 9780465006205 0465006205 9780465003389 0465003389 |