But once the victorious allies occupied a devastated Germany, witnessed its moonscape ruined by massive bombing and house-to-house fighting, and discovered that their “ally” Russia’s Joseph ...

By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating ... took steps to reform the currency in the parts of Germany they occupied, in order to promote economic recovery.

it was agreed between Russia - which had sided with the Allies - and Germany and other members of its Central Powers coalition. Signed in the German-occupied city of Brest-Litovsk - today’s ...