Allied Control Council

The Allied Control Council was the name of a military occupation governing body of Germany in the aftermath of World War II; the members were the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. France was later added with a vote but no duties.

The building from which the Allied Control Council operated was called Alliierte Kontrollrats Gebaeude. It was situated in Berlin-Schoeneberg, Hauptstrasse in the Kleist? Park. The ongoing Iron Curtain confrontations left the function of the Control Council, which was intended to govern as a united body, in limbo. After 1945, when the Soviet Union went its own way and cooperations between the Four-Powers? totally collapsed , the building stood empty. There was only one guard stationed out front. After the [Fall of the Wall]? and after the Soviet troops left Berlin, the Allied Control Council building was returned to Berlin city authorities.

see History of Germany