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    "ocrText": "E C R E T\nE-3\nNuremberg War Crimes Trial verdict (1 October) against 22 Nazi leaders; Goer-\ning and 11 associates sentenced to death, Schacht and von Papen acquitted.\n1947\nFailure of Council of Foreign Ministers at Moscow (March) and at London\n(December) to agree on German peace treaty. US and UK Zones combined\neconomically (1 January).\n1948\nJanuary\nSerious food shortages in western Germany cause widespread protest strikes and\ndemonstrations and decline in industrial production. Ruhr declared an emer-\ngency area and placed on special rations. Meeting of London Conference on\nGerman affairs.\nFebruary\nReorganization and strengthening of Bizonal Economic Council (6 February).\nMarch\nGerman central administrations in Soviet Zone subordinated to reorganized and\nexpanded German Economic Commission (DWK) to be strongly centralized\nagency staffed by SED under SMA control.\nMeeting of Soviet-sponsored People's Congress in Berlin to agitate for German\nunity on Communist terms (18 March).\nBreakup of Allied Control Council in Berlin, end of quadripartite government\nfor Germany (20 March).\nApril\nUSSR imposes restrictions on rail traffic to Berlin after US-UK reject Soviet\nunilateral inspection of freight (1 April).\nSoviet restrictions extended to barge traffic (20 April).\nMay\nSoviet Half Year Plan adopted to raise production 10 percent in Zone in last six\nmonths 1948; Two Year Economic Plan being worked out. Shrinkage of East-\nWest trade causing concern to SMA. Poor food situation in western Germany\noccasions new outbreak of protest strikes and demonstrations.\nJune\nLondon Agreement on provisional western German government (1 June).\nCurrency reform in western Germany (18 June).\nUSSR suspends all passenger traffic between western and eastern zones (19\nJune).\nWestern currency reform extended to Berlin (22 June).\nNew Soviet currency introduced in Berlin (23 June).\nUSSR suspends all passenger and freight traffic into Berlin because of technical\ndifficulties (24 June).\nUS-UK airlift started (26 June).\nJuly\nBreakup of Allied Kommandatura, and of quadripartite control of Berlin (1\nJuly).\nImposition of the Western Power counter-blockade cutting off all interzonal\ntrade with the Soviet Zone (24 July).\nAugust-\nSeptember\nMoscow-Berlin talks. Reference of the Berlin dispute to the United Nations.\nSeptember\nMeeting of Parliamentary Council of western German states at Bonn to draft\nconstitution for a provisional western German government (3 September).\nCommunist-inspired mob forces Berlin city assembly to vacate city hall in Soviet\nsector (7 September). Split in city administration continually widened by dis-\nmissal of officials on political grounds by both eastern and western sector ad-\nministrations.\nNovember\nTightening of credit restrictions by Bizonal banks in order to check dangerous\ninflationary tendencies and curb rising prices that are endangering the wage\nstructure.\nFinal split of Berlin municipal government after Communist \"rump\" assembly\nSECRET"
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