Abstract

This chapter discusses the legal status of Germany after World War II. The legal status of Germany after the unconditional surrender of the German army on May 8, 1945, is characterized by the occupation of Germany by the four main Powers, assumption of the supreme authority in Germany by the Four Powers, separation of Germany into four different zones of occupation, assignment of Germany's eastern territories to the administration of Poland and the Soviet Union, special administration of Berlin, and agreement between the Four Powers to reserve the final delimitation of Germany's boundaries and other necessary regulations to a peace treaty. It is also characterized by the formation in 1949 of two German States, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, and the restitution in 1955 of German sovereignty in both German States, except for those rights and responsibilities retained by the Allied Powers in those States.

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