Under the terms of the treaty, the Four Powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany, including Berlin, and the re-united country became fully sovereign again on March 15, 1991. Soviet troops were to leave Germany by the end of 1994. Germany agreed to limit its combined armed forces to no more than 370,000 personnel, no more than 345,000 of whom were to be in the army and air force. Germany also agreed it would never acquire nuclear weapons.
Perhaps the most significant of the treaty's terms was Germany's renouncing of all claims to territory east of the Oder-Neisse line - Germany thus accepted the territorial losses imposed after 1945. Germany also agreed to sign a separate treaty with Poland confirming their present border, which it did the following year.
Although the treaty was signed by the two German states as separate entities, it was ratified by a united Germany per the terms of the agreement.
External Links
Full Text of the Treaty (http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/2plusfour8994e.htm) (US Embassy in Germany Web site)
This momentum and process is part of the political heritage and the collective memory of Germany, Europe and the world during the post-World War II era.
The memory of the world of the construction and the fall of the Berlin Wall is made up of a complex fabric of tangible and intangible heritage, by physical remains, media-transmitted images and by political documents and treaties.
The documents proposed for inscription are significant audio documents and images of both 1961 and 1989 as well as the Two-plus-Four Treaty of Sept 12, 1990 (Moscow).
The Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany is the final peace treaty negotiated between the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the Four Powers which occupied Germany at the end of World War II in Europe: France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union.
The treaty is sometimes referred to as the TwoPlusFour Agreement (German: Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag) and paved the way for the German re-unification, which took place on October 3.
Although the treaty was signed by the two German states as separate entities, it was ratified by a united Germany per the terms of the agreement.
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