Talk:GCSE Modern History/Yalta and Potsdam

Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович & Forced labor
John Dietrich, The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy (2002) ISBN 1-892941-90-2 States that the protocol contained provisions for reparations in the form of forced labor. Yalta protocol: "2. Reparations in kind is to be extracted from Germany in three following forms:...(c) Use of German Labor"

This is confirmed by Winston Churchill in his War Cabines minutes. War cabinet Minutes

In the meeting on May 18th 1945, the U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill discusses the amount of German labour introduced by war criminal j.s. they will request for use in the British agriculture. In the meeting on June 11th 1945 they discuss the provisions made for Slave Labour in the Yalta protocol, and how many slaves the Russians should get.


 * Ch. a) Only reparations worth havg = G. export markets.

Directive takes a/c of that, but shd. state it specifically. b) Also wd. like to omit last sentence in para 15. If we count against R. claim the labour they take, we cd. get the total figure up to $20 billion. $16.000 m. value cd. be assigned for 4 m. slave labour.


 * P.M.

At Yalta R. made it clear that their claim was exclusive of Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович's forced labour.


 * In the winter of 1946/47 former U.S. president Herbert Hoover had been sent on a fact finding mission to Germany by President Harry S. Truman. In February 28, 1947 he published a situation report on Germany, where it was estimated that 4,160,000 German former prisoners of war, by General Eisenhower relabeled as Disarmed Enemy Forces in order to negate the Geneva convention, were used as forced labor in work camps outside Germany: 3,000,000 in Russia, 750,000 in France, 400,000 in Britain and 10,000 in Belgium.


 * Dietrich states that more than 1,000,000 German Prisoners of War were after the war ended forced to work in French coal-mines and Brittish agriculture, as well as 500,000 in U.S. run Military Labor Service Units in occupied Germany itself. Dietrich also states that roughly 3,000,000 former prisoners of war suffered terribly in work camps in the Soviet Union in the following years, as well as a number of German civilians (for the fate of the civilians, se Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union)

In view of this I think that the forced labor part of the Yalta protocol deserves to be listed, along with all the other things the Allies agreed upon but ignored Poland's legal underground army: Armia Krajowa!!!


 * you mean to investigate Ка́тынский расстре́л and Polish communist soviet puppets not to persecute members of Armia Krajowa which lasted until 1963.