The Soviet Military Administration in Germany ( Russian : Советская военная администрация в Германии, СВАГ ; Sovyetskaya Voyennaya Administratsiya v Germanii , SVAG; German : Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland , SMAD) was the Soviet military government, headquartered in Berlin - Karlshorst , that directly ruled the Soviet occupation zone in Germany from the German surrender in May 1945 until after the establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in October 1949.
12-588: [REDACTED] Look up smag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. smag or variant , may refer to: Soviet Military Administration in Germany (1945-1949), Soviet occupation government in Germany post-WWII St. Mary's Academy, Guagua (SMAG), Pampanga , Philippines (est.1908), a co-ed Catholic school salaire minimum agricole garanti (French: guaranteed agricultural minimum wage ) Salzgitter Maschinenbau AG ,
24-470: A German firm in Salzgitter-Bad Schiff- und Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft Germania, former name of German shipbuilder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (SMaG; English: Large Book of Commandments ) by Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, enumerating the 613 commandments See also [ edit ] SMAGS (Surface Movement and Guidance System) Topics referred to by
36-653: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Soviet Military Administration in Germany According to the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, the SMAD was assigned the eastern portion of present-day Germany, consisting mostly of central Prussia . Prussia was dissolved by the Allies in 1947 and this area was divided between several German states (Länder) . German lands east of
48-528: The Oder-Neisse line were annexed by Soviet Union or granted to Poland , and Germans living in these areas were forcibly expelled, having had their property expropriated and been robbed of most of their belongings whilst in transit to the American, British, and Soviet zones. The main purpose of the SMAD was to maintain the unity of Germany. It also had to deal with refugees, such as those resettled from Poland,
60-730: The October 1946 elections, the SED won in the East German states, but lost in Greater Berlin to the local SPD, which had not merged with the KPD there. In May 1949, when a West German government began to be formed, a German People's Congress ( Deutscher Volkskongreß ) was elected for the Soviet occupation zone. However, the only options voters had were to approve or reject "unity lists" of pre-picked candidates from
72-911: The SMAD was abolished and replaced by the Soviet Control Commission ( Sowjetische Kontrolkommission – SKK). However, the SKK did not formally turn over administrative responsibilities to the GDR government until 11 November 1949. Nazi war criminal The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II , including those who were acquitted or never received judgement. It does not include people who may have committed war crimes but were never formally indicted, or who were indicted only for other types of crimes. Malmedy massacre trial (please note that these are
84-515: The guise of confiscation of the property of Nazi war criminals . The SMAD set up ten "special camps" for the detention of Germans, some of them former Nazi concentration camps . In 1947, they started prosecuting Nazi crimes based on the SMAD Directive 201 with 8,300 verdicts passed. A decree of 10 June 1945 allowed for the formation of antifascist democratic political parties and called for elections in October 1946. A coalition of four parties
96-689: The homeless, and former German soldiers. Resources were short, and the economy needed to be shifted from wartime production to peacetime. However, the Soviets were also concerned with their own well-being, and dismantled entire factories and railroads to be reassembled in the USSR. In late 1945 a land reform confiscated the land of German nobles ( Junker ) , to be given to cottagers and landless farmhands. Banks were also nationalized that year. In 1946 an education reform established separation of church and state in elementary schools, and heavy industries were nationalized under
108-720: The original sentences; many were altered later) (trials held in Tokyo ) Other trials were held at various locations in the Far East by the United States in the Philippines , Australia , China , the United Kingdom , and other Allied countries. In all, a total of 920 Japanese military personnel and civilians were executed following World War II . Franz Stangl, commandant at Treblinka and Sobibor Important Dutch collaborators sentenced by
120-515: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Smag . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smag&oldid=1254309492 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing French-language text Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text Short description
132-734: The various parties, largely made up of communists. About two-thirds of East Germans approved the list for the new Congress. In November 1948, the German Economic Commission ( Deutsche Wirtschaftskommission – DWK) assumed administrative authority in East Germany under Soviet supervision. On 7 October 1949, the German People's Congress formed a provisional government and established the German Democratic Republic with Wilhelm Pieck as its first president. On 5 November 1949,
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#1732855935120144-747: Was formed in July, consisting of the Communist (KPD), Social Democratic (SPD), Liberal Democratic and (eastern) Christian Democratic (CDU) parties. This coalition was known as the Democratic Bloc , which would be succeeded by the National Front in 1950. In April 1946 the KPD and SPD merged under Soviet pressure into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands – SED). In
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