1. Defeat and occupation, 1945- 1949 Week 15, February 3

2. German destruction of Murmansk, 1943 (Yevgeny Khaldei)

3. Germans losing the war Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, last German offensive in the East  Jews and other victims locked in the continent  killing went on until May 1945 D-Day, Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 Warsaw uprising, August 1944 Operation Market Garden, Sep 1944: “a bridge too far” Seelower Höhen/Battle of Seelow Heights, April 45 Torgau: Americans meet Soviets at the Elbe May 8: German capitulation

4. Torgau, April 25, 1945

5. Soviet flag over the Reichstag (Yevgeny Khaldei)

6. Destruction of Berlin http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/288915 /Foreign-Affair-A-Movie-Clip-One-Thing-At-A- Time.html (A Foreign Affair, dir. Billy Wilder, 1948)

7. Sexual assaults of Allied soldiers

8. Four zones of occupied Germany

9. Four zones in Berlin

10. Nuremberg trials

11. (New) political parties CDU/CSU – social conservative Christian party FDP -- liberals SED (merged SPD and KPD in the East Germany) SPD in West Germany System of large parties, unlike Weimar

12. Trümmerfrauen (rubble women)

13. Iron Curtain

14. Berlin blockade: Raising bomber

15. New lands