Supreme Authority
"To the Best of My Ability"
English - June 03, 2020 16:51 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBHistory Education fdr museum truman ww2 wwii government history politics presidency Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With the war in Europe over, the Allied powers had to turn to the difficult business of governing Germany and the other occupied territories. It was a huge task: to restart a functioning economy for an entire continent, to restore systems of law and government, to bind up the wounds of war. On June 5, 1945, the US, UK, USSR, and France jointly assumed "supreme authority" over German territory. The Third Reich was now dead, and Germany officially passed under the control of the victorious Allies.