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ITALY Under the provisions of Article 37 in the Armistice with Italy Instrument of Surrender , September 29 , 1943, the Control Commission for Italy was established on November 10 , 1943 and was dismantled following the conclusion of the Italian Peace Treaty in 1947 . RUMANIA In The Armistice Agreement with Rumania , 1947 and entered into force on September 15 , 1947. The Commission, placed under the nominal leadership of Soviet general Rodion Malinovsky (represented by Vladislav Petrovich Vinogradov ), was dominated by Red Army leaders. FINLAND the Allied Control Commission occupied Hotel ''Torni'' ]] The Allied Control Commission (ACC) arrived in Finland on September 22 1944 to observe Finnish compliance to Moscow Armistice . It consisted of 200 Soviet and 15 British members and was led by Col. Gen. Andrei Zhdanov . Immediately after its inception, the commission required Finland to take more vigorous action to intern the German forces in Northern Finland. Finland's compliance with the commission resulted in Lapland War . Simultaneously, Finland was required to Demobilize , which was also required by the commission. ACC provided Finland with a list of war criminals against whom Finland had to start judicial proceedings. Although this required Finnish post-facto legislation, Finland was the only country on the losing side of the war that was allowed to try its own war criminals. The ACC interfered with the War-responsibility Trials by requiring longer prison sentences than the preliminary verdict would have contained. ACC also strove to change the Finnish political life by requiring a number of allegedly fascist (practically anti-Soviet) organizations to be banned, among them Civil Guard . As a more minor matter, the ACC required the forced return of all Soviet citizens (including Estonia ns, Polish, U.S.) to the Soviet Union. After the war, Finnish military stored part of the weapons of the demobilized troops into several hundred caches distributed around the country. The caches would have been used to arm guerillas in case of a Soviet occupation. When the matter leaked into public, the commission required Finnish authorities to investigate and prosecute the officers and men responsible for the caching. The Weapons Cache Case was followed closely until the ACC determined that the case was purely a military operation. The Allied Control Commission left Finland September 26, 1947, when the Soviet Union finally ratified the Paris Peace Treaty . BULGARIA The Armistice Agreement with Bulgaria October 28 , 1944 stipulated Article 1 that "''On the conclusion of hostilities against Germany the Bulgarian armed forces must be mobilized and put on a peace footing under: supervision of the Allied Control Commission.''". Article 11 stipulated that property taken from United Nations territory must be returned to those territories under the supervision of the Control Commission. Article 13 stipulated that property belonging to the Axis powers of Germany and Hungary must not be returned without permission of the Control Commission. Article 18 stipulated that the Commission would "''regulate and supervise the execution of the armistice terms under the chairmanship of the representative of the Allied (Soviet) High Command. ... During the period between the coming into force of the armistice and the conclusion of hostilities against Germany, the Allied Control Commission will be under the general direction of the Allied (Soviet) High Command.''". HUNGARY
GERMANY The Allied Control Council (ACC) for Germany oversaw the Allied Occupation Zones In Germany . The ACC was established by agreement of June 5 , 1945 , supplemented by agreement of September 20 of that same year, with its seat in Berlin . Its members were Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Decision could only be made by consensus. Cooperation by the ACC broke down, as the Soviet representative withdrew on March 20 , 1948 . After that date, the ACC, even though in existence, no longer met, thus paving the way for the Partition of Germany into two states. After the breakdown of the ACC, West Germany (and West Berlin) was ruled by the Allied High Commission with membership from Britain, France, and the United States, while East Germany (and East Berlin) was ruled by the Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission, later the Soviet High Commissioner. The role of the High Commissioners ceased when each German state gained full Sovereignty . The ACC convened again in 1971 , leading to agreement on transit arrangements in Berlin. During the talks for Unification of Germany in late 1989 , it was decided to convene the ACC again as a forum for solving the issue of Allied Rights And Privileges in Germany. The disbanding of the ACC was officially announced by the Two Plus Four Agreement of September 12 , 1990 , effective as of March 15 , 1991 . AUSTRIA The Allied Commission For Austria was established by the Agreement on control machinery in Austria signed in the European Advisory Commission in London on July 4 , 1945. It entered into force on July 24 , 1945 on the day that the United States gave notification of approval, the last of the four powers to do so. It was supplemented by an agreement of June 28 , 1946 . Austria was divided into 4 Zones: American, British, French and Russian. Vienna, being the capital, was similarly divided but at its centre was an International Zone, sovereignty of which alternated at regular intervals between the 4 Powers. The commission had its seat in Vienna. It was dismantled following the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty on May 15 , 1955 . JAPAN It was agreed at the , 1945 . As agreed in the communique the FEC and the Allied Council were dismantled following the Japanese Peace Treaty of September 8 , 1951 . FOOTNOTES SEE ALSO
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