Originally Posted by Matt 26z

This evidence was fabricated or coerced at the Nuremberg trials. The goal was to deliver a final, devastating financial blow to Germany that would cripple them for decades.

The US looted talented people from west Germany and gave them US citizenship. Russia looted east Germany of manufacturing equipment and sent it all to Russia. Today history talks about how the Berlin wall was a bad thing, but the truth is that its effects on Germany were deliberate. It was there to harm Germany. The west half would have manufacturing to generate the funds to pay the fines from WW2. The east is where dangerous Germans were sent to live in a kind of limbo.