The document discusses the administration of post-war Germany and the influence of occupying forces. It contains quotes from 1946 where Secretary of State Byrnes advocates for Germany to be administered as a single economic unit without zonal boundaries. It also contains a 1945 quote from Joseph Stalin acknowledging that whoever occupies a territory will impose their own social system to the extent their military power allows.
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The United States is of the firm belief that
Germany should be administered as an
economic unit and that zonal frontiers
should be completely obliterated as far as
the economic life and activity of Germany
are concerned.
Secretary of State Byrnes, September 1946
5. Whoever occupies a territory also
imposes on it his own social system.
Everyone imposes his own system as far
as his army has power to do so. It
cannot be otherwise.
Joseph Stalin, 1945