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1853:. The conclusion of Peace Treaties with recognized democratic governments in these States will also enable the three Governments to support applications from them for membership of the United Nations. The three Governments agree to examine each separately in the near future in the light of the conditions then prevailing, the establishment of diplomatic relations with Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary to the extent possible prior to the conclusion of peace treaties with those countries. 3814: 2264: 34: 1804:, with territories to the east of this excluded from the Soviet Occupation zone and placed under Polish and Soviet civil administration. Poland would receive former German territories in the north and west, but the final delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should await the peace settlement; which eventually took place as the 245:
await the peace settlement." Byrnes continues: "In the light of this history, it is difficult to credit with good faith any person who asserts that Poland's western boundary was fixed by the conferences, or that there was a promise that it would be established at some particular place." Despite this, the
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The expulsion of ethnic Germans by the Poles concerned, in addition to Germans within areas behind the 1937 Polish border in the West (such as in most of the old Prussian province of West Prussia), the territories placed "under Polish administration" pending a Final German Peace Treaty, i.e. southern
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of October 1943 have no particular geographical localization. The Three Governments reaffirm their intention to bring these criminals to swift and sure justice. They hope that the negotiations in London will result in speedy agreement being reached for this purpose, and they regard it as a matter of
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Post-war Germany to be divided into four Occupation Zones under the control of Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and France; with the Commanders-in-chief of each country's forces exercising sovereign authority over matters within their own zones, while exercising authority jointly through
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had not been invited to the Conference, the French resisted implementing the Potsdam Agreements within their occupation zone. In particular, the French refused to resettle any expelled Germans from the east. Moreover, the French did not accept any obligation to abide by the Potsdam Agreement in the
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wrote "we specifically refrained from promising to support at the German Peace Conference any particular line as the western frontier of Poland." The Berlin Protocol declared: "The three heads of government reaffirm their opinion that the final delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should
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were under great strain, the Czechoslovak government, the Polish provisional government and the control council in Hungary were asked to submit an estimate of the time and rate at which further transfers could be carried out having regard to the present situation in Germany and suspend further
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in Germany. The section also agreed that 10% of the industrial capacity of the western zones unnecessary for the German peace economy should be transferred to the Soviet Union within two years. The Soviet Union withdrew its previous objections to French membership of the Allied Reparations
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The Three Governments have taken note of the discussions which have been proceeding in recent weeks in London between British, United States, Soviet and French representatives with a view to reaching agreement on the methods of trial of those major war criminals whose crimes under the
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had fought on the side of the Allies and was making good progress towards establishment of a democratic government and institutions and that after the peace treaty the three Allies would support an application from a democratic Italian government for membership of the United Nations.
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Post-war, 'Germany as a whole' would consist solely of aggregate territories of the respective zones of occupation. As all former German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were excluded from the Soviet Occupation Zone, they were consequently excluded from 'Germany as a whole'.
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had begun to suppress the German population west of the Bóbr river to underline their demand for a border on the Lusatian Neisse. The Allied resolution on the "orderly transfer" of German population became the legitimation of the expulsion of Germans from the nebulous parts of
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by James F. Byrnes, New York & London, 1947, p.79-81. Byrnes, a Judge and former State Governor, served as a close adviser to President Truman and became US Secretary of State in July 1945. In that capacity, Byrnes attended the Potsdam Conference and the Paris
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Now that hostilities in Europe were at an end the Western Allies should have a greater input into the Control Commissions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Annex to this agreement included detailed changes to the workings of the
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proceedings of the Allied Control Council; in particular resisting all proposals to establish common policies and institutions across Germany as a whole (for example France separated Saarland from Germany to establish
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Italian former colonies would be decided in connection with the preparation of a peace treaty for Italy. Like most of the other former European Axis powers the Italian peace treaty was signed at the 1947 Paris Peace
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Reduction or destruction of all civilian heavy industry with war potential, such as shipbuilding, machine production and chemical factories. Restructuring of German economy towards agriculture and light
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was set as Poland's provisional (and therefore theoretically subject to change) western frontier in Article 8 of the Agreement but was not finalized as Poland's permanent western frontier until the 1990
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The German merchant marine was to be divided equally between the three powers, and they would distribute some of those ships to the other Allies. But until the end of the war with the
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The Three Governments, having considered the question in all its aspects, recognize that the transfer to Germany of German populations, or elements thereof, remaining in Poland,
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recognised by all three powers, and that those Poles who were serving in British Army formations should be free to return to Poland. The provisional western border should be the
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and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September 1945.
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great importance that the trial of these major criminals should begin at the earliest possible date. The first list of defendants will be published before 1st September.
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The United States and Britain declared that they would support the transfer of Königsberg and the adjacent area to the Soviet Union at the peace conference.
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expulsions until these estimates were integrated into plans for an equitable distribution of these "removed" Germans among the several zones of occupation.
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awarding Soviet-occupied Poland the river Oder as its western border, placing the entire Soviet Occupation Zone east of it (with the exception of the
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Official US text of the Potsdam protocols; annotated with editing variants and variant readings from the official Soviet and British texts.
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and Hungary, will have to be undertaken. They agree that any transfers that take place should be effected in an orderly and humane manner.
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The details were discussed later that year at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and the treaties were signed in 1947 at the
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going East. In theory, that German ethnic population could have been expelled to the Polish temporarily administered territories of
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from various parts of Europe. France was not invited to the conference but formally remained one of the powers occupying Germany.
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all the ships would remain under the authority of the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board and the United Maritime Authority.
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on 16 February 1946), and anything that they feared might lead to the emergence of an eventual unified German government.
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All but thirty submarines to be sunk and the rest of the German Navy was to be divided equally between the three powers.
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he three Governments have also charged the Council of Foreign Ministers with the task of preparing peace treaties for
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fell into disuse, though it was sometimes invoked to denote Polish claims to some East German territories such as
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by Professor Alfred Maurice de Zayas, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 1993/4, reprint 2006, ISBN 978-1-4039-7308-5
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In the Potsdam Agreement (Berlin Conference) the Allies (UK, USSR, US) agreed on the following matters:
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to participate as members of the Council of Foreign Ministers established to oversee the agreement. The
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after the war ended in Europe on 1 August 1945 and it was published the next day. A product of the
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The Three Power Conference took place from 17 July to 2 August 1945, in which they adopted the
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The city of Tangier and the area around it should remain international and discussed further.
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The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse-Line
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accepted the invitation on August 7, with the key reservation that it would not accept
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The government of Austria was to be decided after British and American forces entered
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any commitment to the eventual reconstitution of a central government in Germany.
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The principles to govern the treatment of Germany in the initial control period.
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Polish-East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)
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Polish–East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)
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should be revised and that this should be discussed with the Turkish government.
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Commission, which had been established in Moscow following the Yalta conference.
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By that time the governments of Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary were Communist.
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regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular
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by Gunter Nitsch, Author House, Bloomington, IN., USA, ISBN 978-3-4389-3312-2
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by Professor R. J. Douglas, Yale University Press, 2012, ISBN 9-780300-198201
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was constituted in Berlin to execute the Allied resolutions (the "Four Ds"):
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line was rejected by the Soviet delegation. The cession included the former
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in winter 1945, had already been incorporated into Soviet territory as the
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Directives to the military commanders on allied control council for Germany
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Minor territorial exchanges between East Germany and Poland (1949 and 1951)
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1945 agreement between the major 3 Allies regarding the end of World War II
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Though the Potsdam Agreement referred only to Poland, Czechoslovakia and
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region where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central
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Polish-East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)
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Polish–East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)
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1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland
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Local revolts and transient polities in postwar power vacuum (1918)
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as the UK's representative. The three powers also agreed to invite
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Use of Allied property for satellite reparations or war trophies
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border "under Polish administration"; allegedly confusing the
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A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–49
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In the course of the proceedings, and after the German state
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Polish-Danish Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement (2018)
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Already during the Potsdam Conference, on 30 July 1945, the
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This section covered reparation claims of the USSR from the
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1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
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This was a short paragraph and covered the creation of the
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The Allies had acknowledged the legitimacy of the Polish
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Territories of Poland and Danzig annexed by Nazi Germany
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See the London Conference of Foreign Ministers and the
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treaty and return of the majority of annexations (1958)
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Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany
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Protocol of the Proceedings of the Berlin Conference
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the Allied Control Council for 'Germany as a whole'.
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The US Army and the Occupation of Germany 1944–1946
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Elimination of all 1471:Recovered Territories 1397:Galicia and Lodomeria 980:Polish-Lithuanian War 870:Belarusian Democratic 557:Austrian State Treaty 486:Paris Protocol (1949) 210:, and Prime Minister 93:, the prosecution of 36: 3677:(1975 play and film) 3593:Dewey Defeats Truman 3402:Executive Order 9981 3092:Executive Order 9835 3061:Declaration to Japan 2835:Cornerstone of Steel 2560:Transylvanian Saxons 2235:on the mouth of the 1441:Starostwo of Draheim 1314:Two Plus Four Treaty 1046:and its satellites ( 987:Treaty of Versailles 891:Republic of Zakopane 650:Two Plus Four Treaty 316:Treaty of Versailles 175:enclave), including 3752:Bess Wallace Truman 3652:U.S. Postage stamps 3446:Revenue Act of 1951 3429:Revenue Act of 1950 3423:Dingell–Johnson Act 3418:Housing Act of 1949 3408:Revenue Act of 1948 3264:Revenue Act of 1945 3056:Agreement on Europe 2730:Byrnes, 1947, p.81. 2490:and those parts of 2231:and the seaport of 2229:Free City of Danzig 2152:Territorial changes 2026:Potsdam Declaration 1984:Montreux Convention 1754:and the subsequent 1625:Establishment of a 1273:Treaty of Zgorzelec 1218:Allied conferences 1028:Free City of Danzig 886:Tarnobrzeg Republic 866:Ukrainian People 's 830:Act of 5th November 788:in the 20th century 521:Treaty of Zgorzelec 504:Belgian annexations 306:with Ukraine (1918) 294:Act of 5th November 281:in the 20th century 256:Treaty of Zgorzelec 28:Potsdam Declaration 3850:History of Potsdam 3805:Alben W. 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Index

Treaty of Potsdam (1805)
Potsdam Declaration

German
Allies of World War II
United Kingdom
United States
Soviet Union
Potsdam Conference
Germany
border
European Theatre of War
demilitarisation
reparations
war criminals
mass expulsion of ethnic Germans
peace treaty
international law
Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
De Gaulle
its protectorate
end of World War II in Europe
Tehran
Casablanca
Yalta Conferences
Berlin Declaration
Potsdam Conference
Stalin
Kaliningrad
Pomerania

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