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Robert Murphy, Eisenhower's political adviser, was next in line for the job of top U.S. representative, but other names had been suggested to Truman. Moscow had sent to Berlin Marshal Pavel Rotmistrov, said to be pro-American (as Russians go), who was expected to replace Marshal Zhukov...
General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov have anxiously avoided the common ground of Berlin during the past four weeks. That was typical of the state of Big Power affairs. When the three did meet at a session of the Allied Control Council, they discussed minor matters. In Washington and London, the feeling grew that the Control Council just would not work...
Last week the Russians went at it differently. Marshal Georgi Zhukov summarily ordered the Germans themselves to open all schools (except universities) in the Soviet zone by October 1. German officials were "warned" to prepare buildings and books in time. All private schools were told to become public ones. The German zone administrator was given two days to submit a list of courses and books for Soviet approval. German school directors were told to go out and find non-Nazi teachers. Teaching, said Marshal Zhukov, must "reveal the reactionary character of Naziism, fascist race instructions, and the military character...
...German Premier: Marshal Georgi Zhukov. His deputy prime minister: one Leo Skrzypczinsky, described as a former German factory owner who spent four years in a concentration camp. A political unknown, without party affiliation, Skrzypczinsky was recommended by the Communists. Under Premier Marshal Zhukov were twelve ministries (one for each division of the Soviet Military Government), each headed by a Red Army officer. Under each Red Army officer was a German state secretary (selected from lists submitted by the four "antifascist" parties). As state secretaries, the Russians picked five Communists, three Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Liberal Democrat, one nonparty...
...guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...