User:Stor stark7/Sandbox/German Collective Guilt

Early U.S. efforts to instill

 * PsyWar operations in the first few months (Use the JSTOR articles)
 * Toning down of Anti Nazi resistance (Was it in Beschloss book?)
 * The "You did this!" signs with bergen belsen pictures.
 * The movies.
 * The U.S. "Non Fraternization" policy.

German clergy efforts to instill

 * The statement signing.
 * Albert speers acceptance

CG policy Controversy

 * Neo Nazi use of and German government counter efforts to this

Consequences for Germany

 * What the world thinks.(Germans still spat at and made fun of)
 * Early Retribution against the German people (U.S. Food policy (Wiggins paper), Morgenthau plan, Allied ethnic cleansing and forced labor policy)
 * How negative world opinion affected German victims of the allied ethnic cleansing (Use the book by the little girl whose family was held in polish slave labor camp until the 50's), the rape victims(use ?), modern time controversy regarding the expelee organizations.

What the German public actually knew

 * History of the Concentration camp concept in Germany, possibly on its birth in south africa/Kuba. allied used of.
 * Killing of retarded children
 * Release of Jews married to Germans after demonstrations.
 * Nazi secrecy, use of euphenisms in documents, fake poast-card writers, all(?) death camps outside Poland. (Plan for Auschwitz; level the site build a farm and put one of the Ukrainian guards there to pretend he had always worked there (from one of gitta serenys books ))
 * Listing of the literature of the two opposing camps. Make summary if the standpoints in the controversy.

Modern Germany

 * Political statements (include helmuth Koohls statement, also Adenauer reparations statement.)
 * Amount of reparations paid
 * Who was paid, how was the money used etc.
 * Ongoing reparations claims.