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Establishing Us Military Government: Law And Order In Southern Bavaria 1945, Stephen Frederick Anderson
Establishing Us Military Government: Law And Order In Southern Bavaria 1945, Stephen Frederick Anderson
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In May 1945, United States Military Government (MG) detachments arrived in assigned areas of Bavaria to launch the occupation. By the summer of 1945, the US occupiers became the ironical combination of stern victor and watchful master. Absolute control gave way to the "direction" of German authority. For this process to succeed, MG officials had to establish a stable, clearly defined and fundamentally strict environment in which German officials would begin to exercise token control. The early occupation was a highly unstable stage of chaos, fear and confusing objectives. MG detachments and the reconstituted German authorities performed complex tasks with …