On 30 August 1945, in Berlin, US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, British General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, French General Louis Koeltz and Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov sign the act establishing the Allied Control Council, which thereby assumes supreme authority over defeated Germany.

On 30 August 1945, Order No 1 from the Allied Control Council for Germany prohibits demobilised members of the German armed forces from wearing uniforms.

On 30 August 1945, the Allied Control Council for Germany proclaims Law No 1 in Berlin which repeals the political and discriminatory laws of the defeated Nazi regime.

At its conference held in London from 10 September to 2 October 1945, the Allied Control Council adopts a series of measures on the future of Germany and on the occupation zones to be introduced there.

On 25 June 1948, the Luxembourg daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort reports on a meeting in Warsaw between the Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union and of the countries of Eastern Europe, during which decisions concerning the future of defeated Germany, taken on 1 June 1948 in London by the Western Allies, are harshly criticised.