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From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949
From the Ruins of the Reich Germany 19451949 Author:Douglas Botting As spring came to Germany in 1945, three massive Russian armies launched a furious assault on Berlin. Thus ended the war in Europe that had taken 40 million lives. The victors ultimately found it difficult to agree on the way, or even the day, that a surrender would be accepted and celebrated. Germany was divided into zones of American, French, ... more »British, and Russian occupation -- it had become a non-state. For the Germans it was die Stunde Null, "the hour zero," when history stopped and then started to move to9ward an unthinkable future.« less