Ribbentrop, Goering, and 10 other Nazis sentenced to death. Hess and Funk life imprisonment. Schacht and von Papen acquitted. 1947 Gen. George Marshall appointed U.S. Secretary of State. USSR stops road and rail traffic between the East and West.
Berlin airlift begins.
1949 North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington. Berlin blockade officially lifted. Theodor Heuss elected President, Konrad Adenauer Chancellor, of the GFR which becomes a full participant in the Marshall Plan. GFR joins Council of Europe. The Todesstrafe is abolished in W. Berlin.