... Although Germany emerged from the war in a state of introversion and devastation, she was one of the major threats to the Western Allies since the memoirs of the destructive war caused by German nationalism had not been forgotten yet. Therefore, the Western Allies had some objectives concerning Germany: denazification, demilitarization and decentralization.1 However, the conditions of the post-war period shifted the primary locus of attention from a German threat to a Communist threat. German rearmament, though it was still a nightmare for many European leaders, became one of the key policy goals of the US and Europe during the Cold War period. What changed the attitude of the European countries towards Germany was the major shift in US foreign policy. It is no doubt that in the post-war period the Soviet Union became the major power in both Asia and Europe resulted from the fact that there were power deficiences ...

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