Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, European Advisory Commission, Austria, Germany, Volume III

740.00119 EAC/5–2645: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, May 26, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received May 26—9 a.m.]

5280. Comea 271. Analysis of French counterproposal of May 25 regarding zone in Germany (reported in my 5277, May 25, midnight, Comea 269; repeated to Paris as 307) shows that Wehrkreis twelve lies largely in the UK zone. East of Rhine River it includes the following Kreise: Oberwesterwald, Unterwesterwald, Unterlahnkreis, Sankt Goarshausen, Limburg A/L,⁸⁸ Untertaunus, Rheingau, Wiesbaden, Maintaunus; that part of Mainz Kreis lying east of Rhine; part of Worms Kreis lying east of Rhine; Darmstadt City and rural Kreise; Gross-Gerau and Bergstrasse; also western half of Mannheim Bezirk in state of Baden.

Sent Dept as 5280; repeated to Paris as 308 (for Ambassadors Caffery and Murphy).

Winant

88. Limburganderlahn.