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Despite numerous disagreements, the Allied leaders did manage to conclude some agreements at Potsdam. For example, the negotiators confirmed the status of a demilitarized and disarmed Germany under four zones of Allied occupation. According to the Protocol of the Conference, there was to be "a complete disarmament and demilitarization of Germany." All aspects of the German industry that could be utilized for military purposes were to be dismantled. All German military and paramilitary forces were to be eliminated. Finally, the production of all military hardware in Germany was forbidden.
Furthermore, German society was to be remade along democratic lines by the repeal of all discriminatory laws from the Nazi Hitler era and by the arrest and trial of those Germans deemed to be "war criminals." The German educational and judicial systems were to be purged of any authoritarian influences, and democratic political parties would be encouraged to participate in the administration of Germany at the local and state level. The reconstitution of a national German Government was, however, postponed indefinitely. The Allied Control Commission (which was comprised of four occupying powers, the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union) would run the country during the interregnum.
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