After World War II, both the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according to the Potsdam Conference. Italian, Romani
Excerpt Akte R 27320, page 114 (political archive of the German Federal Foreign Office)
The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Nazi Germany was st
Royal Air Force's Malcolm Club in Schleswig, formerly the Stadt Hamburg Hotel in late 1945.
British armored car, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1950.
French forces in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1946
The Supreme Commanders of the Four Powers on 5 June 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny