Questions tagged [post-war]
The period from the end of WW2. There is no clearly defined end date; this could be as early as the 1960s or as late as 1991 (end of the Soviet Union) and may also depend on the region.
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What nationality are the soldiers in these WW2 pictures?
These pictures were taken in the immediate post-war, 1945 or 1946 I guess, somewhere in central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic or Poland). I have blurred the faces because the pictures come from a ...
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What kind of math and science resources/background did Norbert Kricke use for his sculpture?
It is well known that Norbert Kricke used the book "Plastik des XX. Jahrhundert" by Carola Giedion-Welcker as a reference and saw his artistic ideas reflected by the text (cf. PhD thesis by ...
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Were there any recorded accidents in the USSR (after 1945) involving gas pipelines?
Are there any recorded accidents in the USSR (after 1945) involving gas pipelines? Was there any suspicion that some of them might have been an act of sabotage?
I am not asking about a particular gas ...
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Do we know the names of the German soldiers entombed at Babie Doły?
The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper ran the following story on the 18th of June 1951
Warsaw, Poland - (U.P.) - A 32 year-old German Soldier who said he had
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Did the US promise to save Romania from the Soviets?
Around and after the end of WW2, many Romanians believe that "the Americans are coming" to save us from the Soviet takeover. There is a belief that promises were made at high levels to ...
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After World War 2, was there a trend to say "defense" instead of "war"?
In answering a question whether "defense forces" has any legal meaning, I noticed a trend. Before World War 2 military departments and ministries used terms like "war". After World ...
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Was there a German re-urbanization plan for after WWII?
Was there a Germany-wide re-urbanization plan for after the WWII? I don't mean a hypothetical Nazi re-building plan, but a real implemented plan.
All these things would get intense resistance in ...
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What authority did the US Army have in Egypt between 1945 and 1950?
I am trying to research a brief period of time in Egypt immediately after Britain's withdrawal in 1945, specifically the presence and authority of the US military there (if any) before 1950.
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How was the reichmarks to deutschmarks supported?
I saw on a TV show that the West Germany, during the Cold War, faced an explosion of Reichmarks which became inflation. The Americans were making the Marshall plan in favour of West Germany.
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Was there religious content on the post-war BBC World Service?
At the beginning of Oranges are not the only fruit, Jeanette talks about listening to the radio with her mother as a child.
Sunday was the Lord's Day, the most vigorous day of the whole week; we ...
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Why did the GHQ not promote English during the occupation? [closed]
I wonder why GHQ did not force Japanese people to use the English language during the occupation, or at least add English to one of its official languages, much like Hong Kong under occupation by UK. ...
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Can you tell me the name and location of post war camp in the Netherlands
My father was a young Dutchman who was sent to Berlin to work for AEG as forced labour. According to my fathers account after the end of the war on his return in Holland he was put in a camp in ...
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What was the reason that Poland wanted a part of Germany north of Stettin/Szczecin and west of the Oder?
If you look at the map you see the so-called Stettiner Zipfel (Szczecin lobe) in the west of the Oder which includes Stettin/Szczecin.
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How the course of the border is defined is ...
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In 1947, how many Reichsmarks would 1 U.S. dollar buy?
What was the 1947 value of 7,200 Reichsmarks in U.S. dollars? What was the 1947 exchange rate of the U.S. dollar for the Reichsmark?
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Why did the expelled Sudeten Germans and Danube Germans go to Germany, as opposed to Austria?
After the second world war, Germans that used to live in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary, part of long-existent minorities there fled and/were expelled, mostly to Germany. Before 1918, they ...
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If the UK received the highest amount of Marshall Aid, why was it broke?
After WW2, Marshall Aid was distributed across Europe to facilitate the rebuilding of countries devastated by the war. West Germany received a large amount of this, and soon had a thriving economy.
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How could Poles from Kresy be enough to repopulate entire regions of Poland?
After the second World War, Poland's borders moved about 200km to the west due to the demands of Stalin. Poles located in the east of their country had to resettle to the western lands newly "acquired"...
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What is the origin of the American stereotypes about Swedish women?
After living in USA for over some years I have come to notice that Swedish women are at times portrayed like sexually "free-wheeling" or "liberated", i.e. as persons for who willingly go without ...
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Bretton Woods System : The Meaning as International Monetary System
I have a short and brief question about Bretton Woods System :
In which way so called Bretton Woods system defined with which properties?
What is the raison d'être of the Bretton Woods System?
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Why did the US release the Phillipines as a colony?
The whole reason that the US ended up being dragged into WWII was that Japan wanted their colonies in the Pacific, including the Phillipines. And yet in 1946 the Treaty of Manila was signed, granting ...
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How is historical "average calorie consumption" data from eighty years ago estimated?
I read an article in a German news magazine today about the German post-war "hunger winters" of 1946-48.
The article cites very detailed statistics about average calorie consumption in Germany in ...
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What was the death rate of Germans outside Germany's post war border after World War 2?
In 1945, how many Germans were living in areas of eastern and central Europe outside Germany's post 1945 border?
How many of them died an 'unnatural' death (i.e. by murder, starvation, disease, ...
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How was real estate from Germans expelled after WWII redistributed?
After World War II, tens of millions of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe were forcibly expelled into Allied-occupied Germany and Austria. What happened to all the homes they left behind?...
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Did the Marshall plan only give back a part of what was taken?
I was just reading the German Wikipedia article on Operation Overcast and found a (for me) curious statement.
Basically it states, that the US alone did confiscate patents and industrial secrets with ...
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What was the rationale behind restrictions on camera ownership in post-war Germany?
According to the accepted answer to this question:
There are very few photographs from occupied Germany because it was illegal for Germans to own cameras and similar regulations were enforced to ...
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Why aren't the Silesian Uprisings, especially the 3rd, refered to as a "war"?
Three Silesian Uprising happened in 1919, 1920 and 1921. While the first is definitely an "ordinary" uprising, the second is closer to be a civil war.
The third uprising is definitely a civil war. ...
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How was the safety of allied leaders ensured in transportation for conferences during WW2?
Allied leaders met in three (well, four considering Potsdam) conferences to discuss the future after the war -- the Casablanca conference in 1943, the Tehran Conference in 1943, and Yalta Conference ...
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How much is one 1945 German Mark to one 2016 Euro? [closed]
Is there a way to figure out the exchange rate of one 1945 German mark to a 2016 Euro and/or U.S. dollar? (edited)
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How did communist authorities decide who is "German" and who is "Polish" when expelling Germans from recovered territories?
It is a well known fact that Poland won a lot of territory over Germany after WWII, and that German people were expelled, and the place was re-settled with ethnically Poles. What is less known is how ...
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Why were the Germans and Russians so fixated on an unlikely "separate peace" in 1945?
Anyone familiar with the history of WW2 will know that the Germans hoped for and the Russians feared the British and Americans in 1944/45 might make a separate peace with Hitler and even join together ...
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What were John Profumo's responsibilities as the Secretary of State for War in Macmillan's government?
Although I've found that "Profumo's responsibility was the Army, and his principal preoccupation was helping to recruit and establish a regular volunteer Army after the abolition of conscription" (The ...
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How did the Germans get housing again after WWII?
After a large number of homes were destroyed in the war, how did the average German become a homeowner again?
I know about the Marshall Plan, but this question does not refer to how the economy in ...
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Did the USSR have a more positive relationship with France than other west european countries after 1945?
France and the USSR were allies before World War 2. A number of things intervened before then and 1945, not limited to the war itself. After the war, did Soviet officials publicly (or privately) ...
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Why is China a member of the UN Security Council?
The United Nations was formed at the end of world war II, to maintain peace throughout the world. Within the structure of UN, Security Council is ranked above all.
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Was the Soviet Union in 1945 seeking to capture German soldiers and civilians, or drive them west?
The latter part of Prit Buttar's Battleground Prussia deals with the desperate attempts by German soldiers and civilians to escape from the ports and peninsulas of East and West Prussia in early 1945. ...
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Where can I find more information about this use of Yakuza against a demonstration in 1960?
This (german) article states that in 1960 Japan's President Nobosuke Kishi hired 28000 Yakuza as thugs against an anti-American demonstration.
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What became of Nazi Germany's embassies in neutral countries?
This picture shows the German embassy in Stockholm very near the end of World War II (with the flag lowered to mark Hitler's death).
Germany surrendered on the 8th May 1945. The Flensburg government ...
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