"REPARATIONS FROM GERMANY
"In accordance with the Crimea decision that Germany
be compelled to compensate to the greatest possible extent
for the loss and suffering that she has caused to the United
Nations and for which the German people cannot escaipe
responsibility, the following agreement on reparations was
reached:
"1. Reparation claims of the U.S.S.R. shall be met
by removal-s from the zone of Germany occupied by
the UJS.S.R., and from appropriate German external
assets. i
"2. The U.S.S.R. undertakes to settle the reparation
claims of Poland from its own share of reparations.
'"3. The reparation claims of the United States, the
United Kingdom and other countries entitled to reparations
shall be met from the Western Zones and from appro-
priate German external assets.
"4. In addition to the reparations to be taken by the
U.S.S.R. from its own zone of occupation, the U.S.S.R.
shall receive additionally from the Western Zones:
"(a) 15 per cent of such usable and complete industrial
capital equipment, in the first place from the metallurgical,
chemical and machine manufacturing industries, as is
unnecessary for the German peace economy and should be
removed from the Western Zones of Germany, in exchange
for am equivalent value of food, coal, potash, zinc, timber,
clay products, petroleum products, and such other commod-
ities as may be agreed upon;
"(b) 10 per cent of such industrial capital equipment
as is unnecessary for German peace economy and should
be removed from the Western Zones, to be transferred to
the Soviet Government on reparations account without
payment or exchange of any kind in return.
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