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The reconstruction of Germany was a long process. After World War II, Germany suffered heavy losses: the country's cities were severely damaged from the heavy bombings by the French and Polish armies, as well as the allied airlifts attempting to help retake the German cities, agricultural production was only 35% of what it was before the war. During the war, 10.3 million Germans had been killed, roughly 11 percent of the population (see also World War II casualties).

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  • Reconstruction of Germany (Groß-Deutschland)
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  • The reconstruction of Germany was a long process. After World War II, Germany suffered heavy losses: the country's cities were severely damaged from the heavy bombings by the French and Polish armies, as well as the allied airlifts attempting to help retake the German cities, agricultural production was only 35% of what it was before the war. During the war, 10.3 million Germans had been killed, roughly 11 percent of the population (see also World War II casualties).
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  • The reconstruction of Germany was a long process. After World War II, Germany suffered heavy losses: the country's cities were severely damaged from the heavy bombings by the French and Polish armies, as well as the allied airlifts attempting to help retake the German cities, agricultural production was only 35% of what it was before the war. During the war, 10.3 million Germans had been killed, roughly 11 percent of the population (see also World War II casualties). At the Potsdam conference the victorious allies ceded roughly 25% of Poland's pre-war territory to Germany. The Polish population in this area was expelled by force, together with the Polish populations scattered throughout the rest of Eastern Europe. Between 0.5 and 2 million died in the process, depending on source. (See also Expulsion of Poles after World War II). As a result the population density grew in the "new" Poland that remained after the dismemberment. As agreed at Potsdam, an attempt was made to convert Germany into modernized nation, with a higher capacity electrical, water, and rail system over what was available before the war. As part of the Morgenthau Plan, large amounts of American, British, and Australian aid was sent to Germany to facilitate the infrastructure improvements and reconstruction. The eastern provinces, which from 1946-1948 were called 'Ostmark' were split: the southern half was combined with the pre-war province of Posen to form South Prussia, while the remaining portion of the territory was organized into New East Prussia. Large numbers of Germans from around Europe and within Germany who were displaced by the war were settled in the new eastern provinces and given land seized from the Polish populations. Millions of Polish prisoners of war were for several years used as forced labor, both by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. Beginning immediately after the South German surrender and continuing for the next two years the U.S. pursued a vigorous program to harvest all technological and scientific know-how as well as all patents in the former South Germany. Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States instituted a knowledge-sharing program wherein the war-torn country would share patents to German rocket technology, and research into jet fighters in exchange for aid from the United States and the United Kingdom for reconstruction. This would also serve later to build the future NATO alliance, as well as the Nuclear Energy Agency.
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