As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents embark on countless deportation raids in an effort to meet the White House’s daily arrest quota of 3,000, many officers are becoming completely demoralized, several agents told Nick Miroff with The Atlantic.“Morale is in the crapper,” a former ICE agent ...
Germany lost a significant part of their eastern territory in WW1 and then again even more in WW2. Millions of Germans were ethnically cleansed from east of the Oder river where they had lived for centuries. Millions died during this. Half of what’s now Poland used to be Germany. Kaliningrad/Königsberg and Gdańsk/Danzig used to be major German cities.
Occupation of Germany split in two continued until 1990. In Western Germany the Allied Control Council curtailed Germany‘s sovereignty as well.
There were also restrictions on technology and industry for example aerospace, where Germany had been leading in some areas. Germany was severely damaged in many ways. Berlin still hasn’t reached the same population level it had in 1942 for example.
The Soviets suffered more death and destruction during WW2, but they were taking good advantage of their new powerful position as a superpower. Remember that Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time. Ethnic cleansing and forced resettlement of millions was a common policy in the Soviet Union.
Germany lost a significant part of their eastern territory in WW1 and then again even more in WW2. Millions of Germans were ethnically cleansed from east of the Oder river where they had lived for centuries. Millions died during this. Half of what’s now Poland used to be Germany. Kaliningrad/Königsberg and Gdańsk/Danzig used to be major German cities.
Occupation of Germany split in two continued until 1990. In Western Germany the Allied Control Council curtailed Germany‘s sovereignty as well.
There were also restrictions on technology and industry for example aerospace, where Germany had been leading in some areas. Germany was severely damaged in many ways. Berlin still hasn’t reached the same population level it had in 1942 for example.
The Soviets suffered more death and destruction during WW2, but they were taking good advantage of their new powerful position as a superpower. Remember that Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time. Ethnic cleansing and forced resettlement of millions was a common policy in the Soviet Union.