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Allied occupation of Germany

  • London Six-Power ConferenceThe Foreign Secretary Conference of the 15th of December 1947 ended without result on the German question. Four victorious nations sat at the table yet…
  • Berlin Declaration (1945)The Berlin Declaration of the 5th of June 1945 did something that the German Instrument of Surrender of the 8th of May had not done: it formally transferred…
  • Allied plans for German industry after World War IIIn July 1945, Allied leaders gathered at the Potsdam Conference to decide Germany's future. The United States sought to implement the Morgenthau Plan, a…
  • Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was signed on the 1st of August 1945, at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, as the guns fell silent across Europe but war still raged in…
  • Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that for 28 years encircled the western half of a divided city, turning West Berlin into an isolated exclave…
  • BizoneWorld War II ended with Germany divided into four distinct occupation zones. The Americans controlled the southern lands while the British held the western…
  • Stalin NoteOn the 10th of March 1952, Andrei Gromyko delivered a diplomatic note to representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in Berlin.
  • Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
  • Allied-occupied GermanyAllied-occupied Germany begins not with peace but with erasure. On the 5th of June 1945, the Berlin Declaration extinguished Germany as a sovereign state and…
  • Tear down this wall!At 2:00 p.m. on the 12th of June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, shielded from East Berlin by two panes of bulletproof…
  • Soviet occupation zone in GermanyOn the 2nd of August 1945, the Soviet Union established control over a specific middle portion of Germany through the Potsdam Agreement.
  • Checkpoint CharlieCheckpoint Charlie stood at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse in Berlin, a modest wooden shed backed by sandbags, yet it became the most…
  • Berlin BlockadeThe Berlin Blockade began at one minute past midnight on the 24th of June 1948, when Stalin ordered Soviet troops to cut every railway, road, and canal…