Foreword

VerfasserEric Beckett
Amt des AutorenSir
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By Sir Eric Beckett, K.C.M.G., K.C.

Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office

The publication in the English language of a " Manual of German Law" is an event which invites enquiries as to how it comes about. It is in fact one of various small beneficial things which have resulted from the great calamity of the second World War. As a result of this calamity an area of some 40,000 square miles in Germany containing 25 million people, has been now for four years a British Zone administered under a British Military Governor appointed by the Government of the United Kingdom and responsible to it, as part of the arrangement made by the Allies for the government of Germany as a whole. The statement issued by the Governments of the U.K., the U.S.A., and the U.S.S.R., and the Provisional Government of France on 5th June, 1945, provided that Germany would be divided into four zones, one to be allotted to each Power. The North-Western Zone was allotted to the United Kingdom. As a result, the Control Commission for Germany under the British Military Governor had to...

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