<P> At the beginning of the occupation, the Allies started dismantling the remnants of German industries . The Western Allies later abandoned this plan in favour of the Marshall Plan . </P> <P> The Allies confiscated significant values of German patents, copyrights and trademarks . </P> <P> See German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union and Forced labor of Germans after World War II . </P>

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