The Allies and the West German Parliamentary Council: The Crisis of April 1949.

Abstract

The thesis examines the impact of personalities, issues, and events on the drafting of the West German Basic Law between July 1948 and May 1949. Special emphasis is given to the development and resolution of the crisis which erupted in the Council in April 1949, almost forcing its dissolution. Military and diplomatic records in the National Archives of the United States provided the primary sources of evidence, supplemented by British, American, and German memoirs and secondary works. The study provides new insights into the resolution of the April crisis, viewed from both the Allied and German perspective. Ultimately the U.S. desire to bring the Berlin Crisis to an end and the Allied concern to re-establish a strong Western Europe combined with a German willingness to accept the political realities in Europe to enable the process to be concluded successfully. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 08, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108301

Entities

People

  • Phillip J. Linn

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Commerce
  • Department Of State
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Governments
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design