January 12, 1945
 
     THE TREATMENT OF GERMANY - SUMMARY
 
I. POLICY FOR THE PERIOD IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 
   THE CESSION OF ORGANIZED RESISTANCE
 
       It is recommended that the draft "Agreement on Control 
Machinery in Germany" submitted by the European Advisory 
Commission be accepted without reservation, and that the 
authority of the projected Control Council be made para-
mount throughout Germany.                 
 
       It is recommended that immediate security measures 
include (1) expeditious disbandment and future prohibition 
of all German military and para-military forces, (2)
seizure and destruction of all existing German arms, ammu-
nition and implements of war, including airplanes, and the 
prohibition of further manufacture, (3) and the destruction 
of industrial plants and machinery incapable of conversion 
to peaceful uses.
 
        It is recommended that the National Socialist system 
be destroyed through the dissolution of Party organizations, 
abrogation of Nazi laws and Nazi public institutions, and 
the elimination of active Nazis from public office and from 
positions of importance in private enterprise.
 
        It is recommended that direct inter-allied military 
government supplant the central government of the Reich but 
that, in the interest of simplifying the tasks of the 
military, use be made of the German administrative machinery.
 
        It is recommended that the Control Council assume auth-
ority over all German informational services and cultural 
activities and that schools be reopened as soon as objec-
tionable text-books and teaching personnel can be replaced.
 
II.     LONG-RANGE OBJECTIVES AND MEASURES
 
        The attached paper also discusses our long-range 
objectives in Germany.
 
III.     FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS
 
       It is recommended that this Government adopt, as its 
basic principles in the settlement of territorial disputes,
 
                                                    (1) the