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Documents - Allied Policies, 1944-1955
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1.   Protocol on Zones of Occupation and the Administration of "Greater Berlin" (September 12, 1944)
It was at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 that U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
2.   Line of Demarcation between Soviet and Anglo-American Troops (1945)
This map shows the line of demarcation between Soviet and Anglo-American troops at two different points in time. At the end of the war in May 1945, the dividing line was to the east of the intended....
3.   Report of the Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 4-11, 1945)
When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Crimea for the Yalta Conference in early February 1945,....
4.   Excerpts from the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 11, 1945)
The supplementary protocol of the Yalta Conference, which was signed by the foreign ministers of....
5.   Directive to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Occupation Forces (JCS 1067) (April 1945)
Directive JCS 1067 to the Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in Germany (April 1945) laid out the main features of American occupation policy in the postwar period. Its numerous tough regulations....
6.   The Establishment of the Allied Control Council (June 5, 1945)
With Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, and the detention of the last German Reich government in Schleswig-Holstein shortly thereafter, government power ceased to exist in Germany.....
7.   The Allied Governments on the Zones of Occupation and the Administration of "Greater Berlin" (July 26, 1945)
In the summer of 1945, the victorious powers amended the protocol of September 12, 1944: ....
8.   Excerpts from the Report on the Potsdam Conference (Potsdam Agreement) (August 2, 1945)
The Potsdam Conference between the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain....
9.   Stuttgart Speech ("Speech of Hope") by James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State (September 6, 1946)
Collaboration between the Allied victors became increasingly difficult as the year 1946 unfolded. Clashing ideas about Germany’s future paralyzed the work of the Allied....
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