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Distrust directed toward the occupying forces made US troops wary of any kind of resistance they might encounter.
Troops enforced strict curfews to prevent subversion or acts of violence. Commanding officers advised all US troops to keep firearms with them at all times, even when off duty. Fear of resistance fighters persisted among the American forces. In the final days of fighting, German broadcasts actively encouraged resistance against the invading Allied troops. Limited, localized acts of violence against the occupying forces did occur, but slowly came to an end by A staged photograph featuring 2nd Lt.
William Robertson and Lt. National Archives and Records Administration, ww While in power, Nazis used the education system, public broadcasts, and other means of promoting Nazi beliefs.
Following the war, the Allied Control Council issued directives calling for the removal of Nazi symbols, the forced disbandment of Nazi groups or organizations, and the end of teaching Nazi ideology in schools. Added to this effort, commanding generals, including Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, ordered German citizens—especially those who were members of the Nazi Party—living near concentration camps to walk through the camps and witness the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand.
This effort intended to prevent a resurgence of Nazi ideology, document the atrocities, and undercut any effort to diminish or erase what the Nazis did. The American experience in Japan differed in significant ways from what occurred in Europe. Unlike the European occupation, which began with the capture of Aachen in October , the occupation of Japan did not go into effect until two weeks after Japan announced its surrender in August Further complicating the process was the reliance on a smaller occupying force; the Americans simply did not have as many boots on the ground in Japan as they did in Europe.
This situation caused certain American leaders such as General Douglas MacArthur to argue that keeping the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in office was essential for the success of this process. Most of the factory's workforce initially consisted of displaced persons from across Europe, but more Germans were employed as time went on.
By the end of , 20, cars had been made. The latter concern employed locals to make radio sets manufactured primarily from components salvaged from German military equipment. The British Army also helped found 'Der Spiegel' magazine. The latter was co-founded in Hanover by Major John Challoner who was assigned to the Public Relations and Information Services Control, a unit rebuilding the German media industry under the supervision of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
He worked with recently released German prisoner of war Rudolf Augstein. This provided paid work and accommodation for thousands of men. By late , over 50, Germans were employed as labourers, drivers, mechanics and in many other roles.
In this British Army training film, he explains the motivations for the reconstruction of western Germany. The wartime Reichsmark RM was almost worthless, so goods like cigarettes and coffee served as makeshift currency. Many goods were supplied to illegal traders by Allied servicemen.
British soldiers often bought goods cheaply in staff canteens and NAAFI shops, which were reserved for their use only, and sold them on the black market for RMs.
Initially, RMs were accepted in Army canteens and stores and could be used to buy more goods, or converted into sterling and sent home as money orders. The CCG tried to stamp out the black market by investigating suspects, raiding markets and checking traffic at road blocks.
In February alone, over 4, people were arrested for black market activities in the British zone. From , military involvement in the trade was partly curtailed by issuing troops with British Armed Forces Special Vouchers.
This meant they had a different currency from the locals, and the only one accepted in NAAFI canteens and various messes. From the Army's first crossing into enemy territory, personnel were expressly forbidden to have any social contact with Germans. Its main focus was on enforcing a sense of defeat on the Germans:. Our Army took no revenge in ; it was more than considerate… So accommodating were the occupying forces that the Germans came to believe that we would never fight them again in any cause.
From that moment to this their continued aggression has brought misery to millions. But this policy proved unenforceable. Soldiers of all ranks resisted the ban on fraternisation. Many had to work with Germans to re-establish industrial concerns and local government, making it impossible to adhere to the policy's strict conditions.
Others actively sought out the company of German women, or worked closely with civilians in the black market, while some just felt pity for a poor and desperate people. Eventually, the High Command accepted the policy was unworkable.
In June , soldiers were no longer forbidden from fraternising with children. The following month, they were authorised to hold conversations with adult Germans in public.
Finally, in September , Montgomery cancelled his previous orders on the issue and simply reminded his soldiers that they were 'to conduct themselves with dignity, and to use common sense when dealing with Germans'.
Even so, he still banned his troops from billeting with German families, or from marrying Germans. But as time went on, these rules too were quietly forgotten. At the end of the war, the Allies also had to deal with millions of displaced persons DPs.
These included former concentration camp inmates, forced labourers taken from their homelands by the Nazis to work in Germany, and Allied prisoners of war POWs who had to be sent home. The military in the various zones of Germany did what they could for DPs, many of whom were sick or malnourished. They were housed in makeshift camps where they were fed, medically checked and processed.
Dealing with so many people took time. But by the end of , over six million refugees had been repatriated by the military of the four occupied zones and UNRRA. The last German DP camps closed in the early s. Many displaced persons who were former residents of the Soviet Union, or from nations in Eastern Europe and the Balkans recently taken over by Communists, had no wish to return. Some had collaborated with the Germans and could expect little mercy. But even those forcibly taken by the Germans would still be suspects in the eyes of the Communist authorities.
Political opponents of the Communists also feared going home. Indeed, many of those who did return were jailed or executed in countries like Poland and Yugoslavia. The British, in their zone of occupation, formed some of these people into the Civil Mixed Watchman Service.
They were tasked with guard duties in the camps set up to deal with the tide of humanity moving through Germany. The British also established the Civilian Mixed Labour Organisation to undertake reconstruction work.
MSO units had a British Army commanding officer and senior non-commissioned officers overseeing a multi-national rank and file. The western Allies also had to assist millions of German refugees.
Many were from Germany's eastern provinces and had fled the vengeful Red Army, or were ethnic Germans forcibly expelled from countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia. Their numbers were swelled by thousands of German POWs returning from abroad. Due to its location on the Baltic, the British zone received a great number of German refugees who had come by sea.
This made the accommodation shortage even worse and also caused a reduction in the food ration in early Eventually, most German refugees obtained accommodation and work as the economy recovered. Those Germans who had been expelled from Eastern European countries were assimilated by being granted German citizenship.
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