The Stage Is Set: The Conferences of Yalta and Potsdam
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

Concrete plans for the postwar Allied military occupation were established at Allied Conferences in Yalta and Potsdam following the preliminary work on the Allied treatment of postwar Germany that had been formulated by the European Advisory Commission. The Allied blueprint for the reconstruction of postwar Germany set down plans for Germany to be rebuilt as a unified democratic nation under the direction of separate Allied occupation governments, which was to undertake joint policies until Germ