Control Council Directive No. 30

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The Control Council Directive no. 30 - short only directive no. 30 - was one of the Allied Control Council adopted on 13 May 1946 directive on the "disposal German monuments and museums and military Nazi character" .

On the basis of this directive, public monuments, street signs, museums and collections, among other things, were checked for their military and National Socialist content in all occupation zones and either removed or reinterpreted by structural changes and new inscriptions in the sense of a silent commemoration of the dead. For example, on August 16, 1933, the city of Traunstein renamed the memorial complex with the memorial for the fallen in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 to “ General von Epp-Anlage ”. Initiated by the Control Council Directive No. 30, it was rededicated in 1947 as a "war memorial complex".

The committees in the individual cities, usually made up of lay people, often found themselves overwhelmed by this task. The assessment was also often in conflict with the requirements of the monument protection , especially in assessing the artistic value of individual figural monuments. The Berlin Victory Column , which was moved to its current location and significantly expanded in 1938/39 , remained unchanged .

The directive explicitly referred to the period after August 1, 1914, the date of the mobilization order and the German declaration of war against Russia. There is evidence that monuments that did not fall within the scope of the directive were removed and destroyed, especially in the Soviet Zone , such as B. the Dreyse monument Sömmerda .

The directive was suspended for the Federal Republic on May 5, 1955 with Article 2 of Act No. A-37 of the Allied High Commission (OJ AHK p. 3268), for the GDR by resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the dissolution of the High Commission of the Soviet Union in Germany on September 20, 1955.

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  1. ↑ David Johst: "As honoring the dead allowed" - The demilitarization of commemoration of the war dead in the Soviet occupation zone bpb , April 3, 2014
  2. ↑ The "Hohes Kreuz" cemetery of honor was inaugurated 50 years ago. Traunstein has always provided excellent care for the fallen - Part I Traunsteiner Tagblatt , May 15, 2004
  3. ^ Wolf Karge: Monument collapse after the Second World War in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The removal and destruction of monuments with revanchist, military and National Socialist statements between 1945 and 1950. In: Zeitgeschichte regional, 11th year, issue 2 (December 2007), p. 26 ff.