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21.	Excerpts from the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 11, 1945) The supplementary protocol of the Yalta Conference, which was signed by the foreign ministers of....
22.	Directive to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Occupation Forces (JCS 1067) (April 1945) Directive JCS 1067 to the Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in Germany (April 1945) laid out the main features of American occupation policy in the postwar period. Its numerous tough regulations....
23.	From the 69th Program of the "Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany" (June 1945) In June 1945, the Soviet military administration in the Soviet occupation zone founded the “Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany” [Kulturbundes zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands].....
24.	The Establishment of the Allied Control Council (June 5, 1945) With Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, and the detention of the last German Reich government in Schleswig-Holstein shortly thereafter, government power ceased to exist in Germany.....
25.	Proclamation by the Central Committee of the German Communist Party (June 11, 1945) In the Soviet occupation zone, “anti-Fascist” parties and unions were permitted again as early as June 10, 1945. The revival of the German Communist Party [Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands,....
26.	Appeal by the Preparatory Trade Union Committee for Greater Berlin (June 15, 1945) In the summer of 1945, under signs of centralization, the reorganization of the unions began in the Soviet occupation zone. This decidedly political appeal by the Preparatory Trade Union Committee....
27.	German Social Democratic Party (SPD): Call to Rebuild the Party Organization (June 15, 1945) On June 15, 1945, a few days after the KPD issued its founding manifesto, the Central Committee....
28.	Appeal to the German People by the Christian Democratic Union (June 26, 1945) On June 26, 1945, former members of the Catholic Center Party, along with politicians who had been close to the bourgeois resistance during the Third Reich, founded the Christian Democratic Union....
29.	Proclamation by the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) (July 5, 1945) On July 5, 1945, the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) shared its founding manifesto with the public in the Soviet occupation zone. Whereas the KPD, the SPD, and the CDU had already expressed....
30.	Excerpts from the Report on the Potsdam Conference (Potsdam Agreement) (August 2, 1945) The Potsdam Conference between the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain....
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