Foreign Ministers’ conference on the issue of Germany

On 10 September 1951 the foreign ministers of the three Western allies convene in Washington to discuss the future of the Federal Republic of Germany which is still subject to the Statute of Occupation. They decide that the Federal Republic – subject to integration into a Western European community – shall be granted national sovereignty incrementally.

© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin US-President Eisenhower and the Soviet Prime Minister Bulganin discussing the German issue - the German Michel has to pant for air ... Cartoon by Wolfgang Hicks

By late November representatives of the Western Powers and of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (CDU) will adopt the first draft for a „Treaty on Germany“, providing for the dissolution of the Allied High Commission (AHK).