London Six-Power Conference

The London Six-Power Conference in 1948 was held between the three Western occupation forces in Germany after the World War II (United States, Britain and France) and the Benelux countries. The aim of the conference was to pave the way for Germany's participation in the international community through the creation of a democratic and federal government in the area of the U.S., British and French zones of the country. The conference was held in two sessions, the first from 23 February to 6 March, the second from 20 April to 2 June 1948.

The reason for summoning the conference was that the Foreign Secretary Conference 15 December 1947 between the four victorious nations United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union had ended without result in the German question. The recent Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia made it urgent for the western allies to help create a democratic (West) Germany. The Soviet Union was not invited to the London Conference.

The conference conclusions were later called London recommendations. The three western military governors in Germany were assigned to make recommendations to the Minister Presidents in western Germany about how the new state should be established.^[1] The Minister Presidents should convene a constitutional Assembly (Parliamentary Council) to found a free and democratic state. The Military Governors recommendations were called the Frankfurt Documents after the place where the German Minister Presidents met.

Conditions were made that Germany should not have weapons of mass destruction and other similar weapons, and that the country should not be able to invade the Soviet occupation zone.

France voted for the merger of the three western occupation zones on conditions that the Saarland was financially merged with France and that the Ruhr area became subject to international control.

USSR ended its efforts in the Allied Control Council as a consequence of the London Conference.^[2]

References

^ Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
^ Miller, Roger Gene (2000), To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-967-1

[1] Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

[2] Miller, Roger Gene (2000), To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-967-1

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Territorial evolution of Germany in the 20th century
Pre-World War II Act of 5th November proclaiming Kingdom of Poland (1916) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Ukraine (1918) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Soviet Russia (1918) Treaty of Versailles (1919) German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia (1922) Return of the Saar Basin (1935) Remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936) Anschluss with Austria (1938) Munich Agreement (1938) Seizure of Czechoslovakia (1939) Treaty of the Cession of the Memel Territory to Germany (1939) Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
World War II Großdeutschland Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany General Government Zone interdite German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (1941) Tehran Conference (1943) Moscow Conference and Declaration on Austria (1943) Yalta Conference (1945) Potsdam Conference (1945)
Post-World War II Berlin Declaration (1945) Potsdam Agreement (1945) Luxembourg's annexations (1946 and 1949) Saar Protectorate (1947) Paris Protocol (1949) Dutch annexation of Elten and Selfkant (1949) Belgian annexations (1949) Esrablishment of East and West Germany (1949) Treaty of Zgorzelec (1950) Minor territorial exchanges between East Germany and Poland (1949 and 1951) Bonn–Paris conventions and de facto return of Heligoland from the UK (1952) Return of Kehl from France (1953) London and Paris Conferences (1954) Austrian State Treaty (1955) Saar Treaty (1956) "Little Reunification" with Saarland (1957) Belgium–Germany border treaty and return of the majority of annexations (1958) Return of Kammerwald from Luxembourg (1959) Ausgleichsvertrag (1960) Return of Selfkant (1963) Polish–East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968) Treaty of Moscow (1970) Treaty of Warsaw (1970) Four Power Agreement on Berlin (1971) Basic Treaty (1972) Treaty of Prague (1973) United Nations Security Council Resolution 335 (1973) Polish–East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989) German–Polish Border Treaty (1990) Two Plus Four Treaty (1991) Treaty of Good Neighbourship (1991)
Areas and issues Alsace–Lorraine Former eastern territories of Germany German question Hallstein Doctrine Drang nach Osten Lebensraum Ostpolitik
Adjacent countries Territorial evolution of France Territorial evolution of Poland Territorial evolution of Switzerland
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