Allied Oc­cu­pa­tion of Germay - Summary

05.03.1946 - The deputy American military governor, lieutenant-general Lucius D. Clay, during his speech to the regional council on 5 March 1946 in Munich. Prime Minister of Baden-Wurttemberg D...
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21.09.1949 - Dr. Konrad Adenauer (r) bei der Ansprache an die Hohen Kommissare (l-r) John J. McCloy (USA), Andre Francois-Poncet (Frankreich) und Sir Brian Robertson (Großbritannien). Am 21.9....
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12.04.1955 - View of the signed protocol of the end of the occupation regime in the Federal Republic of Germany on the 23rd of October in 1954.
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30.11.1947 - Boys of West Berlin stand on a pile of rubble and welcome an American transport plane, which brings supplies during the blockade that was declared by the UdSSR (picture taken in 19...
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18.06.1994 - A British military orchestra marches past spectators as the troops of the three Western Allies bid farewell to Berlin on 18 June 1994 with a final joint military parade. Nearly 2,0...
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31.08.1945 - A German woman is weighed to determine her nutritional situation, in September 1945, in a street hospital, which was arranged by a field ambulance of the military government in Ber...
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30.11.1944 - A group of children runs after a truck with American soldiers and beg for sweets. Chocolate and especially the until then unknown chewing gum was very popular.
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31.05.1945 - Der britische Feldmarschall Bernard L. Montgomery (Mitte, schwarze Mütze) mit dem sowjetischen Marschall Georgi Schukow (links neben Montgomery) im Juni 1945 vor dem Brandenburger...
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03.10.1946 - Grenzpolizisten weisen am 03.10.1946 an einem Schlagbaum an der Demarkationslinie, der Grenze zwischen der amerikanischen und sowjetischen Besatzungszone in Deutschland, einen Mann...
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03.10.1946 - Germany post-war. Border policeman stands watch at demarcation line on October 3, 1946.
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03.01.1947 - Der neue hessische Ministerpräsident Christian Stock (r) stattet dem Direktor der amerikanischen Militärregierung von Groß-Hessen, Oberst Dr. James R. Newman, am 3. Januar 1947 in...
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08.04.1947 - (R-l): Ewald Bartel, Albert Wiczonke, Arno Schieffner und Wilhelm Dittler. Die ehemaligen Führer der SA-Brigade Feldherrnhalle müssen sich ab dem 08.04.1947 vor dem Obersten Amerik...
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06.05.1947 - Die Gewerkschaftsvertreter vom Hoff (Nienburg), Chwalek (Berlin), Reuter (München) und Lemmer (sowjetische Zone) bei einer Beratung vor der imposanten Bergkulisse. Vom 06. bis 09.0...
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17.06.1994 - 75 Berliner Polizisten bilden am 17.06.1994 auf der Straße des 17.Juni in Berlin auf neun Motorrädern eine fahrende Pyramide. Mit dieser artistischen Aufführung sichern sich die Ak...
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17.04.1948 - Die Darstellung zeigt die Einstufung der rund zwölf Millionen Menschen, die in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone leben, hinsichtlich ihrer Rolle im Dritten Reich.
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18.07.1945 - The picture taken by photographer Yevgeny Khaldei shows the participants of Potsdam Conference (18.07.1945) on the balcony of Stalin's residence. In the middle US president Harry S...
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01.07.1945 - Two soldiers, one American and one of the Red Army from Azerbaijan hug for a picture in July 1945. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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17.07.1945 - (Left to right) Soviet leader Josef Stalin, US president Harry S. Truman, US foreign minister James F. Byrnes and Soviet foreign minister Wjatscheslaw Michailowitsch Molotow at the...
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01.06.1945 - The four commanders of the Allied Forces, Marshal Zhukov (USSR), General Eisenhower (USA), Field Marshal Montgomery (UK) and General Lattre de Tassigny (France) take part in the Ju...
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01.06.1945 - British field marshal Bernard L. Montgomery (l) welcomes Soviet marshall Georgi Shukov (2nd of left) and other members of the Soviet army at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in June 1945...
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22.07.2008 - Commander-in-chiefs of the allied armies at the end of World War II in Berlin - Schukov (UdSSR) and Dwight D. Eisenhower at Airport Tempelhof in Berlin in June 1945. Photo: Yevgeny...
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28.06.2010 - Marshal G.K. Zhukov, Chief of Staff of the Red Army of the USSR (C), and other Soviet officers of the General Staff gather around a table with maps at the Potsdam Conference at Cec...
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01.01.1945 - Marshal G.K. Zhukov, Chief of Staff of the Red Army of the USSR (C, standing), and other Soviet officers of the General Staff attend the Potsdam Conference in Cecilienhof Palace in...
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01.01.1949 - Deputy military governor of the US sector General George P. Hays (R) attends a session of the Allied Kommandantur in the Kammandatura Building in Kaiserwerther Strasse in West Berl...
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01.04.1949 - Festive tribute for a new airlift record of the American and British pilots, at Berlin-Tempelhof airport in the west of the city. Within 24 hours and with 1,383 flights, 12,849 ton...
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01.04.1949 - Festive tribute for a new airlift record of the American and British pilots, at Berlin-Tempelhof airport in the west of the city. Within 24 hours and with 1,383 flights, 12,849 ton...
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01.08.1958 - The district mayor of Berlin-Kreuzburg, Willy Kressmann, celebrates a children's festival with East and West Berlin children at the sector border between Berlin-Kreuzberg and Berli...
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01.06.1948 - Direkt am Übergang zwischen dem französischen und dem sowjetischen Sektor in der Bernauer Straße / Ecke Brunnenstraße in Berlin kann sich die Bevölkerung auf der Ostseite der Stadt...
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12.05.1949 - After the lifting of the Berlin Blockade on 12 May 1949, the first interzonal bus crosses the Soviet checkpoint direction West Berlin, from Berlin to Hanover, on the same day.
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12.05.1949 - Berliners wave as the first interzone bus after the end of the Berlin Blockade on 12 May 1949 departs on the interzone highway to Hanover in Berlin, Germany, 12 May 1949. Photo: zb...
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30.08.1949 - A policeman (R) warned a man (l) who carries a forbidden Uniforms garment on 30th August 1949 in Germany. Wearing uniforms with a different colour than the uniforms from the occup...
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20.07.1956 - In front of a wood in the north of Munich, which is a popular place for rendezvous, stands a sign which strongly forbids soldiers to enter, 20 July 1956. Beforehand, a number of in...
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07.09.1945 - US General George S. Patton (l) and Russian General Georgy Zhukov (r) during a parade of the allied forces on occasion of the victory of the allies over Japan, on 7th September 194...
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01.01.1946 - American military policemen controlling the papers of the inhabitants of a German town in 1946.
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01.01.1945 - Military policemen of the U.S. army (right) control together with a German policeman (centre) passer-bys in the streets of Frankfurt in 1945.
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08.08.1946 - Two police trainees (middle) of the police school in Frankfurt on the Main have lessons about behaviour in the police service with military policemen of the U.S. army (left, right)...
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04.07.1945 - Troops of the US army and the Soviet army during a party in front of the barracks of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler on the 4th of July in 1945 in Berlin. The celebrations took plac...
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06.07.1945 - US general Omar Bradley (l-r), Soviet major general Barinow, American major general Floyd Parks, and the French general Duchane during a military parade of the allied forces on 6th...
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08.05.1947 - Troops of the US Army giving a parade on V-E-Day (Victory in Europe Day) on occasion of the 2nd anniversary of Germany's surrender on 8th May 1947 at the airport Tempelhof in Berli...
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01.01.1948 - US soldiers dance in a bar in Frankfurt am Main in 1948.
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02.05.1949 - A Russian soldier threatens with clenched fist in front of a lock in Berlin on the 2nd of May in 1949, which was occupied and closed by British military soldiers.
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01.05.1949 - Officers of the British and Soviet occupying forces negotiate about the destiny of three detained British MPs in May 1949 in Berlin. They had been arrested by Eastern zonal police...
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05.05.1955 - Former British High Commissioner, Frederick Millar (l, front) signs the document in Bonn on the 5th of May in 1955, behind him ambassador André Francois-Poncet, to the right Konrad...
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12.03.1954 - The parting town major of Berlin C.F.C. Coleman (l) and his successor William Pasfield Oliver (m, sitting) sign in the Town's Visitor's Book of Berlin in the town hall of Schöneber...
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26.05.1952 - View into the plenar hall of the Bundesrat during the opening by French foreign minister Robert Schuman (foreground, 2nd of left) on the 26th of May in 1952, on which German chance...
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24.05.1952 - (l-r) Ambassador extraordinary Philip Jessup, German head of state Theodor Heuss, American foreign minister Dean Acheson, High Commissioner John Jay McCloy and German chancellor Ko...
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17.03.1953 - A roofing ceremony is celebrated on 17th March 1953 in the new allied head quarter in Mönchengladbach. The complex is supposed to house the head quarter of the British Army of the...
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12.09.1945 - In the occupied districts of Berlin called Wedding and Reinickendorf, commanders of the French army examine their squads on 12 September 1945, a few months after the end of the sec...
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14.12.1952 - The new French military governor of Berlin, General Pierre Manceaux-Demiau (right), welcomes the "Bundesbevollmächtigten" in Berlin Dr. Vockel (left) during the farewell party of h...
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02.03.1949 - In Frankfurt on the Main on 2 March 1949, an American officer (centre) refuses entrance to a building of the Soviet commission of repatriation to an officer of the Soviet military...
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21.08.1946 - Mr. Barbakoff, head of the German-American commission center, watching the first exchange of cigarettes brand "Chesterfields" against a "Slip", a document which entitles to change,...
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02.06.1950 - A uniformed man and a child walking through deep furrows on 2nd June 1950 near Uelzen in the Lüneburg Heath. The furrows were caused by British tanks which drove through a nursery...
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01.01.1951 - Despite the fall maneuver of the US Army, which takes place around him in 1951 in Kinzigtal near Hanau, a German farmer is doing his job, potato harvest. American soldiers in the b...
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03.10.1951 - US tank units during a mission of maneuver Combino on a field near Autobahn Mannheim-Frankfurt on 3rd October 1951. With more than 160,000 participating American soldiers and furth...
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11.04.1951 - About 400 occupation victims, mainly women, demonstrating in the city of Munich, on 11th April 1951.
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11.04.1951 - Around 4000 victims of the occupation, mainly women, demonstrated in the city centre of Munich on 11 April 1951. On posters, they demanded the eviction of the houses confiscated by...
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09.09.1951 - About 1,000 victims of occupation from 12 Hesse cities protesting with a silent demonstration through Bad Nauheim against the occupation of their houses, on 9th September 1951.
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30.11.1951 - A house in Frankfurt-Höchst being evacuated on 30 November 1951. Despite resistance of the residents, this house and further houses in the area were evacuated by the American occup...
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01.01.1946 - Original-Bildunterschrift: Die Westalliierten übernehmen ihre Sektoren von den Russen. Was ändert sich für den Einzelnen, für die Kommunalverwaltungen, für die Alliierten selbst? B...
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01.06.1946 - Berlin - Nachkriegsdeutschland - Berlin - Nachkriegsdeutschland, Juni 1946. Ansicht des zerstörten Führerbunkers in Berlin. Deutschland, Berlin, Bunker, 'Führerbunker' *** Local Ca...
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03.09.1971 - The ambassadors of the four occupying powers France, USA, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union short before signing the Four-Power Agreement on Berlin on 3 September 1971 in the for...
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01.01.2000 - Im November 1946 wurde mit den Stuttgarter Nachrichten die zweite Tageszeitung der Hauptstadt von Württemberg-Baden durch die amerikanische Militärregierung lizenziert. +++(c) dpa...
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28.12.1945 - Die Vertreter der vier Besatzungsmächte während einer Sitzung des Alliierten Kontrollrats am 28. Dezember 1945 in Berlin (l-r): General Joseph T. McNarnoy (USA), Marschall Gregory...
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26.03.1970 - Representatives of the four allied forces meet in the former allied control council in Potsdamer Street in Berlin-Schoeneberg to sort out open questions on Berlin. Main topics wer...
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01.01.1946 - Raymond J. Spahn aus Illinois, Direktor der amerikanischen Informationszentren in München, bei der Arbeit am Schreibtisch. Im Hintergrund ein Bücherregal. Die Zentren wurden von de...
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25.01.1954 - Blick auf die sowjetische Delegation: In der Mitte Wjatscheslaw Molotow, links daneben Andrej Gromyko, dahinter Wladimir Semjonow. Rechts Allen Welsh Dulles, links Anthony Eden. Im...
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27.02.1946 - Eröffnungssitzung der von den britischen Besatzungsbehörden ernannten Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft am 27.2.1946. Am Mitteltisch unter dem Fenster die Offiziere der britischen Militär...
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26.10.1946 - Der Direktor der Nachrichtenkontrolle der US-Militärregierung in Deutschland, Brigadegeneral Robert A. McClure (M), nimmt während der feierlichen Lizenzierung der Nachrichtenagentu...
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08.01.1947 - US-General Lucius D. Clay (l) während einer Ansprache vor dem Länderrat am 08.01.1947 in der Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart. In der vorderen Reihe (l-r): Der Generalsekretär des L...
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01.01.1953 - The offices of the Allied Kommandatura on Kaiserswerther Strasse 14-18 in the American sector in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, 1953. Photo: zbarchiv - NO WIRE SERVICE
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07.01.1947 - Der Regisseur und Kameramann Curt Oertel (l) nimmt am 07.01.1947 von dem Direktor der Militärregierung in Frankfurt am Main, Robert K. Phelps (M), die Lizenzurkunde entgegen. Recht...
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15.05.1945 - After the war in Berlin in 1945 - The photograph depicts command number 2 of the commander of the Soviet occupying forces in Berlin, Nikolai Berzarin, from 15 May 1945, which perm...
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01.06.1945 - Street scene after the end of the war 1945 - Flags of the allied war winners, the United States, Soviet Union, France and the United Kingdom, are hung at Rathaus Schoeneberg in Be...
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06.10.1045 - Director of the news control of the US military government in Germany, brigadier general Robert A. McClure, on 30 September 1945, in Bad Homburg, Hesse.
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01.01.1953 - The offices of the Allied Kommandatura on Kaiserswerther Strasse 14-18 in the American sector in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, 1953. Photo: zbarchiv - NO WIRE SERVICE
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13.06.1949 - (L-r): Die Delegationen der Russen, der Franzosen und ihnen gegenüber der Briten und der Amerikaner während einer Besprechung am 13.06.1949 in Berlin. Die Wirtschafts-. Finanz- und...
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28.04.1970 - View on the state carriages of the ambassadors of the four occupation forces in front of the building of the former Allied Control Council on Potsdamer Straße in Berlin-Schöneberg...
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28.12.1945 - Die französische Delegation (l-r):Oberst Marcel Potival, Oberst George Bialet, General Louis Koelitz und General Pierre König während einer Sitzung des Alliierten Kontrollrats am 2...
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01.01.1949 - Sitzung der alliierten Kommandantur im Kommandanturgebäude in der Kaiserwerther Straße in West-Berlin, aufgenommen 1949. Links der Stadtkommandant des amerikanischen Sektors von Be...
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03.06.1972 - Foreign ministers of the four occupying powers France, USA, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union sign the final report of the Four-Power Agreement on Berlin on 3 June 1972 in the fo...
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07.10.2016 - Der wissenschaftliche Archivar Johann Zilien sitzt am 06.09.2016 in Wiesbaden (Hessen) im Hessischen Hauptstaatsarchiv in seinem Büro neben einem Doppelstück der «Proclamation No.2...
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28.09.1961 - View on the Checkpoint Charlie of the US Army on 28th September 1961 on Friedrichstraße in Belrin. On the left of the picture are West Berlin custom officials. A heavy Patton tank...
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24.08.1961 - Soldiers of the US Army standing on the West Berlin side and the People's Police of the GDR, with a water gun, on the East Berlin side, at checkpoint Friedrichstraße in Berlin on 2...
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18.10.1961 - American soldiers of the US brigade of Berlin drive past the zonal border in Berlin-Zehlendorf in a jeep on their way to Grunewald to participate in a three day manoeuvre on the 18...
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15.08.1961 - British military policemen watch the sealing off measures of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin by the authorities of the Soviet zone.
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23.08.1961 - British soldiers patrol at the Reichstag in Berlin near the border to the Soviet sector on the 23rd of August in 1961.
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