The Potsdam Conference held by the Soviet Union , United Kingdom and United States from 17 July to 2 August 1945 largely determined the occupation policies that the defeated country was to face . These included demilitarisation , denazification , democratization and decentralization . The Allies ' often crude and ineffective implementation caused the local population to dismiss the process as a " noxious mixture of moralism and ' victors ' justice
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht