740.00119 (Potsdam)/7-3045
Proposal by the Soviet Delegation
[Babelsberg,] July 30, 1945
[Translation]
On Ruhr Industrial District
Considering the Ruhr Industrial District as a part of Germany and having in view the necessity of all kind curtailment of Germany’s war potential the Conference has deemed expedient:
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To determine that the Ruhr Industrial District shall be in respect of administration under the joint control of USA, U.K., USSR and France.
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The administration of the Ruhr Industrial District shall be exercised by the Allied Council composed of representatives of U.K., USA, USSR and France.
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The Industry of the Ruhr District will be utilized for reparation purposes in conformity with the common reparation plan.
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To establish immediately, in view of prompt accomplishment of this decision, provisional Allied Council composed of representatives of USA, U.K., USSR and France, which in a months term will carry out necessary preparatory work and will assume the provisional Administration of the Ruhr District.
740.00119 (Potsdam)/7-3045
Proposal by the Soviet Delegation
[Babelsberg,] July 30, 1945
[Translation]
Regarding Reparations from Italy and Austria
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Italy and Austria must pay reparations in compensation of those losses which they caused the United Nations by their participation in the war on the side of Germany.
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Reparations shall be paid in the form of immediate removals of equipment from those branches of their economy which are the most important elements of their military potential. Such removals should be concluded during a period of one year.
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The total sum of reparations from Italy shall be established at three hundred million dollars. The Allied Reparations Commission shall define the amount of reparations from Austria.
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Italy shall pay reparations to the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania; and Austria to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
740.00119 (Potsdam)/7-3045
Proposal by the Soviet Delegation
[Babelsberg, July 30, 1945]
[Translation]
Trial of Principal War Criminals
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The Conference has recognized as necessary for the trial of the principal war criminals whose crimes, as is stated in the Moscow Declaration of November 1, 1943, were not connected with a definite geographical place, to establish an International Tribunal in the near future.
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The Conference has decided in the first instance that judgment should be passed on the following leaders of the Hitlerite clique: Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Ley, Keitel, Doenitz, Kaltenbrunner, Frick, Streicher, Krupp.
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The leaders of the three Allied governments declare that according to the Moscow Declaration of November 1, 1943 they will take all measures at their disposal to provide for the surrender into the hands of justice war criminals who have taken refuge in neutral countries. In the case of the refusal of any such country to surrender war criminals who have taken refuge on their territory, the three Allied Governments will consult between each other concerning the measures which should be taken in order to provide for the effecting of their inflexible decision.