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740.00119 Control (Germany)/9–2645

Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Allied Control Council for Germany, Held at Berlin, September 20, 1945, at 2 p.m.95

[Extract]
CONL/M(45)6.
[Berlin,] 20 September 1945.

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64. Certain Additional Requirements to be Imposed on Germany

The Council had before them CONL/P(45)34.96 General Sokolovsky97 referred to Article 38, which had been omitted at the instance of the U.S. Delegation. He was willing to sign the proclamation now but expressed the hope that the U.S. Delegation might see their way later to publish Article 38.

(64) The Members of the Council:

a.
approved and signed the proclamation;98
b.
took note of General Sokolovsky’s suggestion concerning Article 38;
c.
took note that as a German text was not yet completed a published promulgation of the proclamation throughout Germany would have to be postponed for a few days.

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[Twenty-three United States draft directives were circulated in the European Advisory Commission. Draft directives 1–21 were presented for consideration by the Commission, while draft directives 22 and 23 were circulated in the Commission for information only. None of these draft directives was acted upon by the Commission. Unless otherwise indicated, they are not printed.

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1. Censorship of Civilian Communications E.A.C.(44)30 November 23, 1944.
2. Control of Works of Art and Monuments E.A.C.(44)31 November 23, 1944.99
3. Control of Public Information in Germany E.A.C.(44)32 November 23, 1944.
4. Securing and Examining Information and Archives E.A.C.(44)33 November 23, 1944.
5. Disposition of German and German-Controlled Naval Craft, Equipment and Facilities E.A.C.(44)34 November 23, 1944.
6. Control of Merchant Shipping Subsequent to Surrender E.A.C.(44)35 November 23, 1944.
7. Control of Inland Transport E.A.C.(44)36 November 23, 1944.
8. Disposition of German or German-Controlled Aircraft, Aeronautical Equipment and Facilities E.A.C.(44)37 November 23, 1944.
9. Disposition and Control of the German Police E.A.C.(44)38 November 25, 1944.
10. Control and Disposal of Nationals, Armed Forces and Property of Enemy Countries Other than Germany E.A.C. (44)39 November 25, 1944.
11. Administration of Justice E.A.C.(44)40 November 25, 1944.
12. Religious Affairs E.A.C.(44)41 November 25, 1944.
13. Elimination and Prohibition of Military Training in Germany E.A.C.(44)43 December 8, 1944.
14. Control of Post, Telegraph and Telephone Services in Germany E.A.C.(44)46 December 14, 1944.
15. Disposal of German Armed Forces E.A.C.(45)1 January 1, 1945.
16. Disarmament of the German Armed Forces and Disposal of Enemy Equipment E.A.C.(45)12 February 16, 1945.
17. United Nations Prisoners of War E.A.C.(45)31 April 14, 1945.1
18. Treatment of Displaced Persons and Refugees E.A.C.(45)39 April 17, 1945.2
19. Control of German Foreign Relations and the Disposition of Enemy Diplomatic and Consular Property and Records E.A.C.(45)40 April 17, 1945.3
20. International Agreements E.A.C.(45)41 April 17, 1945.4
21. Control of Aviation in Germany E.A.C.(45)50 May 4, 1945.
22. Identification and Apprehension of Persons Suspected of War Crimes and Other Offenses and Trial of Certain Offenders4a E.A.C.(45)63 August 15, 1945
23. United Nations’ Renegades and Quislings E.A.C.(45)64 September 6, 1945.5]
  1. Transmitted to the Department in despatch 1012, September 26, 1945, from Berlin, not printed. For a complete report on the meeting, see telegram 569, September 20, 10 p.m., from Berlin, p. 836. For documentation regarding American participation in the Allied Control Authority for Germany, see pp. 820 ff.↩
  2. Note by the Allied Secretariat of the Allied Control Authority for Germany dated September 18, 1945, not printed, reviewing the consideration by the Allied Control Authority of the agreement on certain additional requirements to be imposed on Germany. At its Third Meeting on August 21, 1945, the Coordinating Committee referred the agreement to the Political Directorate for report. At the fourth meeting of the Political Directorate, it was unanimously decided to recommend that the agreement be published in toto subject to the following amendments: the words “in so far as these have not already been fulfilled”, in parentheses, were to be inserted into the preamble, and section (article) 38 would be omitted. At its eighth meeting on September 17, the Coordinating Committee approved the report of the Political Directorate and referred the matter to the Control Council.↩
  3. Gen. Vasiliy Danilovich Sokolovsky, First Deputy of the Supreme Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.↩
  4. For the text of Allied Control Council for Germany Proclamation No. 2, dated September 20, 1945, see Department of State Bulletin, October 7, 1945, p. 515, or Official Gazette of the Control Council for Germany, No. 1, October 29, 1945, p. 8.↩
  5. Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. ii, p. 1060. For documentation regarding the interest of the United States in the measures for the protection and salvage of artistic and historic monuments in war areas, see ibid., pp. 1031 ff.↩
  6. For text, see subenclosure to instruction 5087, February 9, to London, p. 410.↩
  7. The text of this draft directive is contained as section III, paragraphs 17–22 of Annex “A” to Appendix “A”, annexed to the memorandum by the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee to the Secretary of State, March 24, p. 477.↩
  8. For text of this draft directive, see section II, paragraphs 6–16 of Annex “A” to Appendix “A”, p 475.↩
  9. For text of this draft directive, see section I, paragraphs 1–5 of Annex “A” to Appendix “A”, p. 474.↩
  10. For documentation on this subject, see pp. 1151 ff.↩
  11. Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. ii, p. 422, footnote 6.↩