uture of Germany. Churchill believed that there would undoubtedly be "severe military control" to begin with, until all German underground movements have ended. As for the dismemberment of Germany, Roosevelt had earlier suggested dividing it into five parts, and Stalin agreed, but Churchill disagreed with them and wanted only to split it into two parts, Prussia and Austria-Bavaria. President Roosevelt then brought up the question of whether or not France would be given an occupation zone in Germany. It was decided that France should be given land from the British and American zones to control. This was an important item because by allowing France to control an occupying zone, the burden of keeping control of Germany, in terms of troops and supplies, on the United States and Britain would be less.
             Stalin next demanded that harsh reparations be paid by Germany to the Soviet Union to compensate for the nearly twenty million dead Soviet soldiers and the Nazi destruction of nearly one thousand Russian towns and cities. Stalin wanted reparations in two ways. First, in seizing of German "factories, land, Machinery, machine tools, rolling stock of railways, investments in foreign enterprises, and so on." Second, in yearly monetary payments after the war over ten years. Stalin proposed that 80 percent of all German industry, namely iron and steel, engineering, and metal and chemical industries, should be confiscated and carried away physically and used as reparation payments. He added that all, not just part of, aviation plants facilities for the production of synthetic oil and all other military enterprises and factories should also be confiscated and used as reparation payments. Germany's possession of 20 percent of its heavy industry would suffice to sustain economic stability, Stalin argued, and all reparations would end within ten years, while the removal of factories and other wealth would end within two years. The ...