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that respect, the British War Cabinet came to agree with the American proposal that tribunals of justice should be established with the consequence that all individual Nazi leaders would now be tried as criminals, and all Nazi institutions, agencies, and associations would be declared "criminal organizations," with proved membership being grounds for judicial penalties. Since, in practice, by May 1945, such Nazi bodies were the only functioning institutions of German civil administration, the effect was to designate the entire civil apparatus of state power in Germany and all employment within it as "criminal" activity in the service of the Nazi Party on the basis that "the Nazi state was structurally, in its genesis and throughout its existence, a vast criminal enterprise."
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remained generals, soldiers remained soldiers, and military orders issued by the German High Command were valid orders with legal effect right up to 8 May 1945 although the counterpart civil state of Germany was considered already extinct. It followed that the representatives of the German High Command had been legally entitled to sign the Instrument of Surrender in Berlin and that their orders to the army, navy, and air force to lay down their arms were valid orders, which were properly enforceable by the procedures of
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The key articles for the future governance of Germany were therefore Article 11, which provided for the arrest and trial by the Allies of Nazi leaders and other suspected war criminals, and Article 13, which provided almost unrestricted authority to the Allied Powers to direct German civil, economic,
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consequent on the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces and the total absence of any German central government authority. However, the text of the articles of the Declaration maintained, in several places, the continued existence of a German national people and territory, which, for the
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Nevertheless, although the Nazi state was designated as a criminal enterprise with no valid claim to exercise civil authority in Germany, the "criminal" designation was not extended by the Allies to the German High Command and the members of the armed forces. Generals in the service of the Nazi state
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a comprehensive text of unconditional surrender, which was intended to be used in the potential circumstances of Nazi power being overthrown within Germany by military or civil authorities. A post-Nazi government would then be set up in Germany and seek an armistice. In the event, Nazi power remained
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of 8 May 1945 had provided only for the military capitulation of German armed forces, the German signatories being representatives of the German High Command. Consequently, full civil provisions for the unconditional surrender of the German state remained without explicit formal basis. The Allies had
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The Allied contention that the German Reich no longer existed was, however, challenged in legal and political debate, with a number of scholars maintaining that the legal extinction of a state could not be achieved except by formal annexation of its peoples and territory into another state and that
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in the West. The preamble also confirmed the four nominated representatives of the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of the French Republic as the "Allied Representatives," which would from then
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without trial, which remained British policy until April 1945. The principles of the Moscow Declarations were to be elaborated in the proceedings of the European Advisory Commission to specify that the Allies would undertake that both Nazism and German militarism would be eradicated from Europe. In
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of October 1943, which was also stated that after a German surrender, any individuals participating in atrocities within territories under German occupation would be returned to those territories to be judged and punished, and the entire leadership of Nazi Germany, classed as "criminals," would be
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were unacceptable to the Allies. Therefore, the previously-agreed surrender text, redrafted as a declaration and with an extended explanatory preamble, was adopted unilaterally by the four Allied Powers as the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany on 5 June 1945. It spelled out the Allied
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in 1990, the descendants of expropriated prewar landowners challenged the legal basis of Allied occupying power in respect of the Soviet-instigated East German land reform and sought through the German courts to dispossess the descendants of the postwar beneficiaries of the reform programme or
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on the powers and responsibilities constraining military occupation in wartime. The Allies maintained that the conventions could not and did not apply in the circumstances of the occupation of Germany, as the complete and lasting elimination of Nazism and its crimes against humanity and German
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The Allies asserted that their assumption of sovereign powers within Germany would not effect its annexation. The declaration consisted of 15 articles, the first eight being concerned with the capitulation of the German armed forces and the surrender to the Allies of military equipment and
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Officially, the "Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany by the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of the French
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Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany by the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of the French
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On 5 June 1945 in the former headquarters of Marshal G. K. Zhukov here, the representatives of the high commands of the Anti-Hitler Coalition signed the Declaration of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the assumption of governmental authority through the four allied
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being tasked with preparing the terms for an eventual peace treaty and final settlement of the war, and with establishing through the Control Council a wholly new German Government and state adequate for the purpose of accepting that settlement.
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position that after the gross criminal abuses of Nazism, and in the circumstances of complete defeat, Germany now had no government or central administration and that the vacated civil authority in Germany had consequently been assumed as a
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since that option had been explicitly forsworn in the Berlin Agreement, the German national state must in some form be considered as having survived the collapse of Nazi Germany independently of the Allied Control Council.
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Postwar legal debate also challenged the powers assumed by the Allies in Articles 11 and 13 to effect radical change to the civic, legal, and economic structures of Germany in direct conflict with the provisions of the
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and legal structures in the zones under their control. That article was extensively applied to effect the de-Nazification of public institutions and economic enterprises at all levels of German society, to extract
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on exercise supreme civil and military authority within German territory and over former German forces. Otherwise, the text of the declaration was that prepared for but not eventually used in the
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The principle that hostilities against Germany should continue until its armed forces laid down their arms on the basis of unconditional surrender had been adopted by the Allies in the
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by redistributing expropriated rural land from large prewar landed estates to the ownership of surviving tenant occupiers and expellee farmers from formerly-eastern parts of Germany.
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and refused to be bound by the Potsdam Agreement, and then the Soviet Union in 1948 walked out of the Control Council, which prevented it from meeting again until 1971 and 1990.
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of 1 August 1945 confirmed the establishment of British, American and French zones of occupation and set the boundary between Poland and Germany at the
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in 2005, which found in favour of the legality of the Allied occupation. The postwar occupation of Germany was found to have been 'an occupation
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Memorial tablet marking Soviet Marshall Zhukov's leadership at signing of the Allied agreement on the military occupation of Germany.
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seized and "punished by the joint decision of the government of the Allies," a formula that was understood as indicating
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otherwise to be granted compensation at current market value. After a succession of four cases was brought before the
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The preamble of the declaration asserted both German responsibility for the war and the complete legal extinction of
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and meanwhile took over administrative responsibilities from Soviet forces for their respective sectors of
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but not including the proposed dismemberment clause, was added to the agreed surrender instrument at
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ceased to exist, with its historic institutions and organisation having been expunged under the
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A monument (pictured above) was erected at the site in the Wendenschloss district of Berlin-
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purpose of the Declaration was taken to be as defined on 31 December 1937 (after the 1935
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The military forces of the Western Allies had pulled back westwards from the original "
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militarism in general were their major wartime objectives. Indeed, in October 1944,
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was established on 30 August 1945 to execute supreme governmental power over
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intelligence assets. By July 1945, those actions had largely been completed.
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into Poland and the Soviet Union and the short-lived creation of the
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The declaration was signed by the Allied commanders-in-chief:
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Hansen, Reimar (1995). "Germany's Unconditional Surrender".
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and in the Soviet zone also to effect a major programme of
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in the ruins of Berlin on 30 April 1945; and the claims of
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Commander, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
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of the four Allied Representative Powers on behalf of the
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Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954
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on Niebergall Street. Translated from German, it reads:
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Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
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over a decade, an appeal was eventually made to the
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of 8 May 1945, in the form previously agreed by the
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Berlin Declaration (Allied)

United States
Dwight Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Georgy Zhukov
United Kingdom
Bernard Montgomery
Provisional Government of the French Republic
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
France
German
United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
France
Allies of World War II
Potsdam Conference
German Instrument of Surrender
European Advisory Commission
Adolf Hitler
killed himself
Karl Dönitz
Flensburg
condominium
Allied Governments
Allied Control Council

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