Allied Control Council

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The Allied Control Council was the joint governing body of the four victorious Allied powers that administered occupied Germany after World War II.

Aliases (8)
  • Allied occupation authorities ×4
  • Allied Control Authority ×2
  • Allied Control Commission for Germany ×1
  • Allied Control Council legal administration in Germany ×1
  • Allied Control Council naval authorities ×1
  • Allied Kommandatura (Berlin) ×1
  • Coordinating Committee of the Allied Control Council ×1
  • Directorates of the Allied Control Council ×1

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf international administrative body
occupation authority
alsoKnownAs Allied Control Authority
Allied Control Commission for Germany
appliesToConflict World War II
appliesToEvent post-World War II occupation of Germany
appliesToJurisdiction American occupation zone in Germany
British occupation zone in Germany
French occupation zone in Germany
Soviet occupation zone in Germany
appliesToPeriod post-war military occupation of Germany
appliesToSubsequentEntity Federal Republic of Germany
German Democratic Republic
appliesToTerritory Allied-occupied Germany
continent Europe
countryGoverned Germany
dissolved 1948
20 March 1948
formedAsResultOf defeat of Nazi Germany
foundedBy France
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
hasPart Coordinating Committee of the Allied Control Council
Directorates of the Allied Control Council
hasRole supreme governing authority in Germany after World War II
headquartersLocation Allied Kommandatura, Berlin
inception 1945
5 June 1945
languageUsed English
French
German
Russian
legalBasis Allied agreements at the Potsdam Conference
Allied agreements at the Yalta Conference
Berlin Declaration of 5 June 1945
locationOfHeadquarters Berlin
member France
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
replaced Nazi government of Germany
replacedBy Allied High Commission
Soviet Military Administration in Germany
separate occupation zone administrations
shortName Allied Control Authority
significantEvent beginning of the Berlin Blockade
division of Germany into occupation zones
suspension of Soviet participation in 1948

Referenced by (24)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
DAF ("Allied occupation authorities")
Deutsches Jungvolk
German General Staff
Luftwaffe High Command ("Allied occupation authorities")
Ministry of War of Japan ("Allied occupation authorities")
Prussia
dissolvedBy
Allied Control Council ("Allied Control Authority")
Allied Control Council ("Allied Control Commission for Germany")
alsoKnownAs
Nuremberg Prison
Spandau: The Secret Diaries
associatedWith
Kriegsmarine
Storm Detachment
disbandedBy
Allied Control Council ("Coordinating Committee of the Allied Control Council")
Allied Control Council ("Directorates of the Allied Control Council")
hasPart
Courtroom 600
associatedWithOrganization
Capture of Munich ("Allied occupation authorities")
controlledAfter
Allied Control Council Law No. 10
enactedBy
Berlin Declaration of 5 June 1945
establishedBody
Reich Ministry of Justice ("Allied Control Council legal administration in Germany")
followedBy
Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich
repealedBy
Kriegsmarine High Command ("Allied Control Council naval authorities")
replacedBy
Allied Control Council ("Allied Control Authority")
shortName
Senate of Berlin (West) ("Allied Kommandatura (Berlin)")
subordinateTo
RM
usedUnderRegime

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