Allied Forces organization
also: Allies, Allied, Allied occupied government, Allied military courts, big four allied governments, Allied governments, Allied spokesmen, the Allies
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“the deportation aspect for Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels. It was a propaganda boon. For millions of ordinary Germans, as bystanders, it provided a lot of sauce for the psychological operations that was going on around them. The British bomb…”
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The Allied occupied government of Germany would substantially reform the whole structure of the German economy, carry out denazification. This is describing what they said they were going to do. Break up the entrenched system of business ca…
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The Allies publicly resolved jointly to ban all German production of weapons, ships, airplanes, and other implements of war. Germany's manufacturing of chemicals, steel, machine tools, and other items directly necessary for a war economy ha…
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and from positions of responsibility was important. Written criteria distinguished major criminals from small ones. There were five basic categories of Nazi offenders, and the Potsdam Agreement laid out the framework of procedures for handl…
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and to return accused Nazi criminals to the countries seeking them for trial. Further, the Allies concurred that the major war criminals whose crimes have no particular geographical location, the High Command of Germany State, the Nazi Part…
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were to try the second echelon of accused war criminals. Most importantly, Nazis accused of offenses to war crimes, such as extermination of people and worked labor camps, would be tried before allied courts in occupied Germany. Each ally p…
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Finally, all Nazi Party's rank-and-file members were to be removed from office of responsibility or influence. Despite the scope of this very specific agreement, the conflict within the U.S. government over denazification of Germany's indus…
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The denazification that did take place in Germany was usually spearheaded by the German socialist, communist, and religious leaders who had resumed limited legal political activities. Allied troops captured the larger German cities. They we…
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hastily organized local unions known as work councils. They took over the management of many of the companies, particularly larger factories. These committees then usually drove out the old Nazi board of directors. This form of denazificati…
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A later U.S. military government survey of 60 major German companies employing a total of more than 100,000 workers found that virtually all of the denazification activities of these plants had taken place before the beginning of the Allies…
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But they wanted to scarf up a whole bunch more of the companies that had been formerly owned by Jewish people. And that would be thwarted if they allowed this Antifa anti-Nazi coalition to continue what they were doing because they were alr…
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Antifa and placed them under considerable restraint. From the very first days of the occupation, the U.S. and British occupation governments shut down the independent denazification by the summer of 1945. For the most part, they dispersed m…
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engineered Draper's appointment as chief of the economic division of the Joint Allied Control Council for Germany and as director of economic policy for the German territories administered by the U.S. So you have the very people that arrang…
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by the frank comments of Lucius Clay, William Draper, and others once it was over. Next chapter, which is named, it would be undesirable if this became publicly known. The political conflict among the allies over how to deal with the accuse…
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at the War Crimes Commission through the War Crimes Commission into an important new role that amounted to an international grand jury on war crimes. The War Crimes Commission, since its beginning, had been the registration of criminal comp…
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had a case. Though not particularly controversial at first, these determinations took on a new significance as cooperation among allies over transfer of prisoners began to break down. The War Crimes Commission accepted the registration and …
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The War Crimes Commission work thus became more urgent than ever. True, the big four allied governments agreed to handle the crucial International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through a new committee set up among themselves rather than th…
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of the State Department saw things, the smaller allied states were relatively strong in the War Crimes Commission and included aggressive anti-Nazi deregulations from the Czech, Yugoslavia, French, and the immigrant community of the Polish …
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Meanwhile, the Allies' carpet bombing of Berlin and other cities accelerated Germans' exploitation of these people. The Allied bombing itself was a war crime because they were not military targets. They tended to reinforce Nazis' effort to …
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the deportation aspect for Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels. It was a propaganda boon. For millions of ordinary Germans, as bystanders, it provided a lot of sauce for the psychological operations that was going on around them. The British bomb…
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and to disrupt industrial production by burning the working class quarters of the cities around them to the ground. Allied spokesmen frequently claimed at the time that a new offensive of which the primary target would now be the homes of G…
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The U.S. in time adopted many aspects of the British air campaign. The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the later use of the atomic bombs illustrate that. The opening years of the war, when the U.S. was still officially neutral, Preside…
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Airborne bombing of defenseless cities. Great Britain and the U.S. were signatories of the 1907 Hague Convention, Roosevelt said, which banned attack or bombardment by any means of towns, villages, or buildings that were not defended. The p…
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of defenseless civilians. The U.S. acknowledgement that bombing civilians constituted a war crime disappeared from Allied war propaganda after 1940. Let's see. By the time the U.S. entered the war, the Allies had already concluded that Brit…
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each blaming the other for initiating it. As the Allies gained control of the skies over Europe, they stopped claiming that these acts of bombings were crimes, while the Germans stepped up their argument that they were crimes. The Nazis use…
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Thus, contrary to Allied intent, bombing raids tended to mobilize the German population, reduced passive resistance to Hitler's policies among the German military and industrial elites to facilitate a more dramatic shift towards total war m…
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found that Allied bombing had little negative impact on the German war production up to the fall of 1944 and that earlier Allied raids were actually accompanied by increases in the level and efficiency of the German war production. U.S. tar…
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Allied bombing fed directly into Hitler's war against the Jewish people as well because it provided a propaganda program. Propaganda minister Goebbels repeatedly linked the Nazi genocide of Jewish people to Allied bombing in his broadcast s…
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the Jewish press of London and New York for instigating Britain's bloodthirsty malice against Germany. He would say that these Jewish people will pay for it with the extermination of their race. That was Goebbels' message. He clearly believ…
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Otto Ohlendorf, a leading SS intellectual and ideologue, offered similar reflections during his post-war trial for the murder of 90,000 civilians under his command. Ohlendorf saw it as he saw it, the Nazi mass execution of Jewish children b…
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The murder of Jewish children, he claimed, was a security measure because otherwise the children would have grown up and surely being the children of parents who had been killed, they would constitute a danger no smaller than that of their …
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The general public in Germany closely associated the Jewish people with the Allied bombing campaigns. At first, this took the form of popular hostility as supposed foreign spies and manipulators behind Allied governments, a view that was sy…
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present Auschwitz and other concentration camps as security measures created in a response to Allied initiatives. Later in the war, however, the reverse idea seemed to have taken hold among the German public, much to Goebbels' distress. Beg…
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that the Allied bombings was retribution for what was happening in these forced labor camps. Many Germans believed the cities and religious areas were being bombed because of what the Nazis were doing. Similarly, many Germans throughout the…
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the way we would have today a very effective means of threat and countermeasure at our disposal. These sentiments can also be found in letters sent by ordinary Germans to Goebbels' ministry. Such notes frequently included suggestions that J…
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The number of their dead published immediately after each air raid so that the Americans and British would be accredited with their murder. The Allies avoided bombing Jewish in German city. Wait a minute. None of these popular German myths …
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Jewish people in German cities, nor did the treatment of Jewish people in the German localities play a role in the Allied. And that's not what they were actually saying. They were actually saying that they wanted to use them so that they co…
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the violence of war home to German cities, the Allied bombing contributed substantially to the atmosphere where mass slave labor could be accepted as an ordinary fact of life in Germany. Importantly, the framework of international law const…
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The decision of the Allied forces to bomb defenseless cities was a propaganda boom to Goebbels. And the longer that went on, the more angry the German people got and the more supportive of the German government they became. And so, yes, the…