Documents on Germany under Occupation, 1945-1954

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Documents on Germany under Occupation, 1945-1954

Book by Beate Ruhm Von Oppen; Oxford University Press, 1955. 660 pgs.

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Extracts from the CommuniquÉ Issued After the Moscow Tripartite Conference

The 'Unconditional Surrender' Meeting: a Report of The Press Conference Given by Churchill and Roosevelt At Casablanca

Statement by Churchill on the Principle of Unconditional Surrender

Report of the Crimea (yalta) Conference, 4-11 February 1945

Extracts from the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Crimea (yalta) Conference

*Military Government, Germany, Supreme Commander's Area Of Control: Law No. 1, on the Abrogation of Nazi Law

*Directive of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff to The Commander-In-Chief of the United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the Military Government of Germany (jcs 1067)

‡extract from Order No. 1 of the Chief of Occupation Troops And City Commandant of Berlin) Colonel-General Bersarin

Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and the Assumption Of Supreme Authority with Respect to Germany by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, the Ussr, And The Provisional Government of the French Republic

Statement by the Governments of the United Kingdom, The United States, the Ussr, and the Provisional Government Of The French Republic on Control Machinery in Germany

‡allied Agreement on the Quadripartite Administration Of Berlin

Agreement by the Governments of the United Kingdom, The United States, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, and the Ussr for the Prosecution and Punishment Of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis, and Charter Of the International Military Tribunal

‡kommandatura Order No. 1: Confirmation of Previous Soviet Action in Berlin

Control Council Proclamation No. I: Establishment of The Control Council

†decree on Land Reform in Land Saxony

†announcement by the Soviet Military Administration on The Establishment of German Administrations in the Soviet Zone

French Memorandum Submitted to the London Session of The Council of Foreign Ministers, 11 September-2 October 1945

Control Council Proclamation No. 2: Certain Additional Requirements Imposed on Germany

Control Council Law No. 2, Providing for the Termination And Liquidation of the Nazi Organizations

†order by Zhukov Granting the Provincial and LÄnder Administrations in the Russian Zone the Right to Issue Laws And Decrees Having Legal Force

Control Council Law No. 4: Reorganization of the German Judicial System

Extract from Control Council Law No. 5: Vesting and Marshalling of German External Assets

Control Council Directive No. 16: Arming of the German Police

Control Council Plans for the Transfer of the German Population to Be Moved from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland into the Four Occupied Zones Of Germany

Control Council Law No. 8: Elimination and Prohibition Of Military Training

Control Council Law No. 9: Providing for the Seizure of Property Owned by I.G.Farbenindustrie and the Control Thereof

Extracts from Statement by the United States Department Of State on the Reparations Settlement and Peace-Time Economy Of Germany

Extracts from Control Council Directive No. 24: Removal From Office and from Positions of Responsibility of Nazis And Of Persons Hostile to Allied Purposes

Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the French Republic to the United States Ambassador in Paris Relating to the Creation of German Central Administrations

Control Council Plan for Reparations and the Level Of Post-War German Economy

Control Council Law No. 22: Works Councils

† Principles and Aims of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Control Council Law No. 25: Control of Scientific Research

Control Council Order No. 4: Confiscation of Literature And Material of a Nazi and Militarist Nature

†draft Law on the Transfer to the People of the Enterprises Of War Criminals and Nazi Criminals in Land Saxony

†communiquÉ of the Administration of Land Saxony on A Referendum to Expropriate Nazis and War Criminals

Extract from Bevin's Report on the Paris Session of The Council of Foreign Ministers

†soviet Military Administration Order No. 167, on the Transfer Of Enterprises in Germany to the Ownership of the Ussr on The Basis of Soviet Reparations Claims

Control Council Directive No. 32

Extract from Molotov's Statement at the Paris Session of The Council of Foreign Ministers, 15 June-12 July 1946

†letter of Thanks for Increased Rations from the Executive Of the Socialist Unity Party to Sokolovsky

Control Council Law No. 34: Dissolution of the Wehrmacht

Statement Made by Molotov to a Correspondent of the Polish Press Agency Concerning Poland's Western Frontiers

Resolution of the Bremen Conference of the Heads of The LÄnder and City Governments of the British and United States Zones Regarding the Sentence of the International Military Tribunal

Control Council Directive No. 40: Policy to Be Followed By German Politicians and the German Press

Extract from a Statement by Bevin Concerning the British Government's Policy on Germany

*Statement on Administrative Questions by the British Deputy Military Governor) Lieut.-General Sir Brian Robertson, Before The Zonal Advisory Council, Hamburg

†soviet Military Administration Order No. 332 Concerning The Transfer of Powers to the Elected Diets and New LÄnder And Provincial Governments

*Agreement Between the Governments of the United Kingdom And the United States on the Economic Fusion of Their Respective Zones

*Statement by Sir Cecil Weir, President of the Economic Sub- Committee of the Control Commission for Germany (british Element), on the Bizonal Economic Fusion

†communiquÉ Issued by the Central Secretariat of The Socialist Unity Party Following a Meeting with Representatives of the Soviet Military Administration on 11 January 1947

Control Council Law No. 46: Abolition of the State of Prussia

Statement to the Control Council by Sokolovsky on The Bizone Fusion Agreement

Comment by the British Military Governor, Sir Sholto Douglas, On Sokolovsky's Statement

Extracts from General Marshall's Broadcast After The Moscow Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, 10 March- 24 April 1947

*Appendix a of British Military Government Ordinance No. 88: Agreement for Reorganization of Bizonal Economic Agencies

*Ordinance No. 95 on the Powers of the LÄnder in The French Zone

*Administrative Order (arrÊtÉ) No. 218, Pursuant to Article 3 of Ordinance No. 95 on the Powers of the LÄnder in The French Zone

Control Council Directive No. 54: Basic Principles for The Democratization of Education in Germany

†order No. 201: Directives for the Execution of Control Council Directives Nos. 24 and 38 on Denazification

†extracts from Soviet Military Administration Regulation No. 3 Under Order No. 201

*CommuniquÉ on Discussions Between Representatives of The United Kingdom, United States, and French Governments In London, Relating to the Level of Industry in the Combined Anglo-American Zones and the Management and Control Of The Ruhr Mines

*British Military Government Ordinance No. 103: Agrarian Reform

*British Military Government Ordinance No. 110: Transfer To the Lander Governments of Responsibility For Denazification

*Extracts from the Eighth Report from the House of Commons Select Committee on Estimates, Session 1946-7: British Expenditure in Germany

*Extracts from the Anglo-American Announcement of The Establishment of a Bipartite Coal Control Group and The Formation of a German Coal Management Board

Extract from Marshall's Statement Proposing the Adjournment of the London Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, 25 November-15 December 19471for Fuller Documentation of This Session, See Riia, Documents, 1947-8, Pp. 510-54.

Extracts from a Statement by Bevin Concerning the London Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers

*Extract from British Military Government Ordinance No. 127: Establishment of a German High Court For The Combined Economic Area

†soviet Military Administration Order No. 32: Composition And Powers of the German Economic Commission

†extracts from Speech by Otto Grotewohl, Joint Chairman Of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Second German People's Congress

†unanimous Resolution Passed by the Second German People's Congress: Petition for a Plebiscite on German Unity

†the Election of the People's Council and Its Presidium

Statement by Sokolovsky at the Meeting of the Control Council, 20 March 1948: Soviet Withdrawal from the Council

*CommuniquÉ Issued by the London Six-Power Conference, 7 June 1948

†report on the Result of the People's Petition

†statement by Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Economic Committee of the People's Congress, on the Legality of The German People's Council

†soviet Military Administration Order No. III on Currency Reform in the Soviet Zone

Review by Bevin of Developments in Germany Up to the Berlin Blockade

*The London Documents: Directives Regarding the Future Political Organization of Germany, Drafted at the London Conference of the Western Foreign Ministers in June 1948 And Handed to the Ministers President of the Western Zones Of Germany by the Military Governors at Their Joint Meeting On 1 July 1948

*Extracts from the Economic Co-Operation Agreement Between the United States of America and the United States And United Kingdom Occupied Areas in Germany

*Reply of the Ministers President to the Proposals Made By The Military Governors Following the London Decisions

*Joint CommuniquÉ Issued After the Third Meeting of The Military Governors and Ministers President of the Three Western Zones

*Statement by the Control Commission for Germany (british Element) Regarding Reparations from the Western Zones, Dismantling, and Erp

*British Military Government Law No. 75: Reorganization Of German Coal and Iron and Steel Industries

*Aide-Memoire Concerning the Basic Law Presented by The Military Governors to the President of the Parliamentary Council at Bonn

†soviet Military Administration Order No. 183 Expanding The Economic Commission

‡letter from Sokolovsky to Robertson on Developments In Berlin

‡the Setting Up of the East Berlin Magistrat

‡extract from Letter from the Soviet Kommandatura To The Vice-Chairman of the Berlin City Parliament, Ottomar Geschke, Recognizing the Provisional Democratic Magistrat As the Only Legal Administration of Berlin

*Directive by the Governors of the Three Western Zones On The Organization of the Allied Military Security Board

‡declaration by the Western Commandants on the Continued Operation of the Kommandatura

†extracts from a Resolution Passed by the First Party Conference, 25-28 January 1949, on the Next Tasks of the Socialist Unity Party

†resolution of the Party Executive on Measures Within The Socialist Unity Party Passed by the First Party Conference On 25-28 January 1949

*Statement of the Parliamentary Council Committee of Five On the Federal Character of the Draft Basic Law

†statement by the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party: 'Against Aggression--For Support for the Soviet Army'

*List of Resolutions Prepared by the Conference of Ministers President at KÜnigstein and Submitted to the Military Governors for Consideration

*Six-Power CommuniquÉ Regarding Provisional Rectifications Of the Western German Frontier, Issued in Paris

*Memorandum Presented by the Social Democratic Party On Federalistic and Centralistic Elements in the Spd Draft Of The Basic Law

*Washington Three-Power Meeting, 6-8 April 1949: Communiquu+00É Concerning the Occupation Statute

*Washington Three-Power Meeting: Agreement on Tripartite Controls

*Washington Three-Power Meeting: Message from the Foreign Ministers of the Three Western Occupying Powers to The Military Governors Concerning the Basic Law

*Washington Three-Power Meeting: Agreed Minute on WÜrttemberg-Baden Plebiscite

*Letter from the Military Governors to the Parliamentary Council Defining the Powers of the Federal Government In The Police Field

*Extracts from a Statement by the United States Department Of State Concerning a Three-Power Agreement on a Revised German Reparations Programme

*Communication from the Military Governors Regarding The Competence of the Parliamentary Council to Draft An Electoral Law

*Letter from the Military Governors to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, President of the Parliamentary Council, Approving The Basic Law

*Letter from the Military Governors to Wilhelm Kaisen, President of the Bremen Senate

*Us Military Government Law No. 20: Election of Certain Public Servants to the German Federal Parliament

‡agreement on a Revised Internal Procedure for the Allied Kommandatura

Extract from Four-Power CommuniquÉ Issued at the Conclusion of the Sixth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Paris, 23 May-20 June 1949

*Control Commission for Germany (british Element): Statement on the Reorganization of the Coal Industry Under Law No. 75

Statement by Churchill on the Origins of the 'Unconditional Surrender Formula: Extracts from a Debate in the House Of Commons

† Politburo Resolution on the Creation of Party Organizations in the Apparatus of the Party and in the Mass Organizations

*Reply by Theodor Heuss to the Address of the French High Commissioner Designate, M. FranÇois-Poncet, Congratulating Him on His Election to the Presidency of the Federal Republic

*Allied High Commission Law No. 1: Official Gazette of The Allied High Commission

*Allied High Commission Law No. 5 for the Safeguarding Of The Freedom of the Press, Radio and Other Information Media, Repealing Previous British, American, and French Military Government Legislation Relating to Press, Radio, And Censorship

*Allied High Commission Decision No. 1: Revaluation of The Deutsche Mark

†announcement of the Impending Establishment of The German Democratic Republic

†law on the Establishment of the Provisional People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic

†statement by the United States Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, on the Illegality of the East German Government

†extracts from the Policy Declaration of Otto Grotewohl, Minister President of the German Democratic Republic

†*Extract from a Statement in the Bundestag by Adenauer

*Statement by Robertson on British Responsibility for The Execution of the Dismantling Programme

*CommuniquÉ Issued at the Conclusion of the Three-Power Meeting in Paris, 9-10 November 1949

†statement by General Chuikov on the Creation of the Soviet Control Commission

Further Statement by Churchill on the Origins of The 'Unconditional Surrender' Formula

*Protocol of Agreements Reached Between the Allied High Commissioners and the Chancellor of the German Federal Republic at the Petersberg

†regulations Pursuant to the Law for the Amnesty and The Granting of Civil Rights to Former Members and Followers Of The Nazi Party and Officers of the Fascist Wehrmacht

*Extract from Allied High Commission Law No. 16, Codifying Previous Allied Legislation on the Elimination of Militarism In Germany

*Draft Agreement for the Establishment of an International Authority for the Ruhr

†extracts from Resolution on Youth Policy Adopted by The Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party

†law for the Establishment of a Ministry of State Security

†extracts from the Programme of the National Front Of Democratic Germany

*Convention Between the French Republic and the Saar On the Saar Mines

†resolution on Improving the Work of the Committees of The National Front, Adopted by the Executive of the Socialist Unity Party

†resolution on Reparations Adopted by the Politburo

†letter from the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl, to the Chairman of the Council Of Ministers of the Ussr, J. V. Stalin, Asking for a Reduction In Reparations

*Extracts from Allied High Commission Law No. 27: Reorganization of German Coal and Iron and Steel Industries

Letter from the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of The Ussr, J. V. Stalin, to the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl, Reducing Reparations

†communiquÉ of the Information Department of the Provisional Government of the German Democratic Republic Concerning a Protocol on Soviet Joint-Stock Companies in The German Democratic Republic

†extract from British Note to the Government of the Ussr Regarding German Police in the Soviet Zone

*Allied High Commission Directive No. 3, Relating to The Negotiation of International Agreements by the Federal Or A Land Government

†agreement Between the German Democratic Republic And The Republic of Poland Regarding the Demarcation Of The German-Polish Frontier

†extract from a Speech by Grotewohl, at Zgorzelec, at The Signing of the German-Polish Frontier Agreement

†preamble of the Statutes of the Socialist Unity Party Adopted at the Third Party Congress, 20-24 July 1950

*Allied High Commission Law No. 35: Dispersal of Assets Of I. G. Farbenindustrie

*Extracts from Speech Made by the British High Commissioner, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, at Hamburg

‡statement Issued by the Western Commandants Concerning The Berlin Constitution of 1950

†extract from the Statutes of the Federation of Free German Trade Unions, Adopted at Its Third Congress, 30 August-

Extract from CommuniquÉ Issued by the Foreign Ministers Of Great Britain, the United States, and France at the Conclusion of Their New York Meetings

†announcement by the Office of Information of the German Democratic Republic of the Inclusion of the Republic in The Council for Mutual Economic Aid

Statement Issued by the Foreign Ministers of the Ussr, The German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, and the Albanian Minister In Moscow, at a Meeting in Prague

*Letter from the Chairman of the High Commission to The Federal Chancellor on Agreement on Certain External Debts

*Letter from the Chairman of the High Commission Requesting An Assurance by the Federal Government on the Equitable Apportionment of Raw Materials

Statement by Acheson, on the Prague Resolutions

†law for the Defence of Peace

*CommuniquÉ Issued by the North Atlantic Council on The Conclusion of Their Brussels Meeting

*Statement Issued by the Foreign Ministers of the Three Powers Occupying Western Germany, After Their Brussels Discussions

*Allied High Commission Statement on Forthcoming Conversations Regarding a German Defence Contribution

*Allied High Commission Regulation No. 14

*Assurance by the Federal Chancellor on German External Debts

*Reply by the Western High Commissioners, on Behalf of Their Governments, to the Federal Chancellor's Assurance on External Debts

*Assurance by the Federal Chancellor on the Equitable Apportionment of Materials, Products, and Services

*Allied High Commission Decision No. 10: Programme for The Revision of Occupation Controls

*Allied High Commission: First Instrument of Revision of The Occupation Statute

*Allied High Commission Decision No. Ii: Competence of The Federal Government in the Field of Foreign Affairs

*Allied High Commission Directive No. 4 (revised)

†resolution Adopted by the Central Committee of The Socialist Unity Party: the Fight Against Formalism in Art And Literature and for a Progressive German Culture

*Extract from Address by John J. Mccloy, United States High Commissioner in Germany

Extracts from the Report of the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency to Its Member Governments

Statement by the Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, On The Termination of a State of War with Germany

Extract from a Letter from President Truman to the Vice- President, Alben W. Barkley, and the Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, Proposing That Congress End the State of War With Germany

*Declaration Issued by the United States, British, and French Foreign Ministers After Their Washington Meetings

*Statement on West German Sovereignty Issued by the Three Western Foreign Ministers and the Federal Chancellor After Their Meeting in Paris

†decree on the Establishment of the 'society for Sport And Technology'

†extracts from the Resolution Adopted at the Second Meeting Of the Central Council of the Free German Youth at Halle, 14-16 August 1952

†announcement of the Appointment of a Soviet High Commissioner

†communiquÉ on the Meeting of the Council of Ministers Of The German Democratic Republic on 11 June 1953

‡ Statement by the Government of the German Democratic Republic Regarding the Berlin Riots

‡further Statement by the Government of the German Democratic Republic on the Berlin Riots

‡joint CommuniquÉ on Negotiations Between the Soviet Government and the Government Delegation of the German Democratic Republic, 20-22 August 1953

†communiquÉ of the Soviet-German Joint Commission on The Return of the Last Soviet Joint Stock Companies

†statement by the Government of the German Democratic Republic Concerning Sovereignty

†statement by the Council of Ministers of the Ussr on The Repeal of Soviet Military Administration and Soviet Control Commission Legislation

*Agreement Between the Governments of the Federal Republic and the French Republic on the Saar Statute

Documents Agreed On By the Conference of Ministers Held in Paris: 20-23 October 1954

2. *‡convention on Relations Between the Three Western Powers and the Federal Republic

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