Allied Reparations Commission
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A tripartite (Soviet, American, British) commission agreed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 and established in Moscow to determine the final reparations sum from Germany. The Soviet representative Ivan Maisky served as chairman. The Soviet proposal of $20 billion total with 50 percent going to the USSR was accepted by the American delegation but, because the British refused to commit to any fixed figure before the commission had assessed Germany's capacity, it remained only a 'basis for discussion.' The commission soon deadlocked over whether current German production should go to reparations or first to essential imports, and was effectively superseded at the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945) by the zonal reparations arrangement.
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- Wikipedia (EN) established the commission, the $20 billion figure as 'basis for discussion,' and British refusal to commit; also notes Stalin's initial refusal to admit France to the commission
- Wikipedia (RU) confirms Maisky as Soviet representative and chairman of the Межсоюзная репарационная комиссия
- germanhistorydocs.org full text of the Yalta Protocol, Section V: Reparation, establishing the Allied Reparation Commission in Moscow
- opil.ouplaw.com Max Planck Encyclopedia: details the commission's deadlock over the 'first charge principle' and its replacement by the zonal reparations regime at Potsdam
- history.state.gov FRUS primary source: US Representative Edwin Pauley's July 3, 1945 letter to Chairman Maisky pressing for progress at the Allied Commission on Reparations in Moscow