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31.	The London Four-Power Agreement (August 8, 1945) The United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union signed the London Four-Power Agreement on August 8, 1945. The Agreement stipulated that major war criminals were to be tried before....
32.	Report by the American Secret Service about the Attitudes of the German Population in the American Occupation Zone (August 12, 1945) A few weeks after the end of the war, an opinion poll in the American occupation zone revealed the aftereffects of the politics and propaganda of the Nazi regime. The Germans were weary of politics....
33.	German Bishops at Fulda – Pastoral Letter by the Conference of Catholic Bishops (August 23, 1945) During the Third Reich, anti-church propaganda, the closing of Catholic schools, and the dissolution of Catholic youth organizations put the Catholic Church under great pressure. After the war, the....
34.	The Harrison Report (September 1945) This report by lawyer and civil rights activist Earl G. Harrison for the American President Harry S. Truman from the summer of 1945 painted a rather grim picture of the situation of Jewish and Eastern....
35.	Speech by General Lucius D. Clay at the First Meeting of the Minister Presidents in Stuttgart (October 17, 1945) In October 1945, General Lucius D. Clay (then deputy American military governor) explained the....
36.	Joint Appeal by the KPD and the SPD for Democratic School Reform (October 18, 1945) In the Soviet occupation zone, the SPD [Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands] and the KPD [Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands] came out in favor of a thorough reconstruction of the....
37.	Statement by the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany to the Representatives of the Ecumenical Council of Churches (October 19, 1945) During the Third Reich, the “German Christians” within the Protestant Church had actively supported....
38.	Isaac Deutscher, "East of the Elbe" (October 27, 1945) At the end of World War II, Germans were more afraid of being captured or occupied by the Russians than by the Western Allies. About six months into the Red Army’s occupation and administration of....
39.	The Central Office of the Protestant Train Station Mission: Progress Report (1945/46) The Christian churches played an important role in the devastated society of the immediate postwar period. In the war’s aftermath, enormous crowds of people – evacuated civilians, returning soldiers,....
40.	Letter from Karl Lewke to the Central Committee of the SED (December 2, 1945) The letter by KPD functionary Karl Lewke and the enclosed memorandum from December 1945 made clear the difficulties that the Communist leadership in the Soviet occupation zone faced in reintegrating....
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