German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation

The German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty marks a supplement to the German - Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 24 August 1939 and was concluded in Moscow between the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov on 28 September 1939.

Prehistory

The forced by Adolf Hitler hasty conclusion of the German -Soviet non-aggression pact had led to errors in the contract, which required corrections. Haste was necessary, since the Soviet Union had begun on 17 September 1939 with the occupation of eastern Poland and rapidly advancing on the demarcation lines partially not precisely defined. In addition, a request of Joseph Stalin should be made correspondingly larger boundary corrections.

Contract

These agreements are set up in three secret additional protocols to a German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty. It also Lithuania was assigned to the Soviet sphere of interest. In return, Germany received the Lublin Voivodeship and parts of Warsaw voivodship. This corrected the fact that was due to the Forgot in negotiating the Hitler -Stalin Pact of Pisa River in defining the dividing line ( "Secret Additional Protocol I" of 28 September 1939). The Parties undertook to further it, " tolerate no Polish agitation [ to ] which acts on the areas over the other part " in the two parts of occupied Poland ( "Secret Additional Protocol II" of 28 September 1939). It was also agreed that the German population from the Soviet sphere of influence, " as long as they have the desire ," were to be resettled in Germany and that this officer of the Reich Government would arrange these resettlement under the approval of the Soviet Union with the " local authorities ". Without that the population groups were specified, this referred mainly to Bessarabia German, German - Baltic and Bukovina German. An analogous obligation assumed the imperial government for the in " their areas of interest residents of Ukrainian or Belorussian origin" ( " Confidential record " of 28 September 1939).

Provisions of the Additional Protocols of this German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty are often erroneously reported as provisions of the original Hitler - Stalin Pact of August 23 in the literature. This is especially true for the assignment of Lithuania to the Soviet sphere of influence and for the agreed resettlement.

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