Adenauer, the Allies, and the Basic Law

By order of the Western Allies, the prime ministers of the West German states established the Parliamentary Council in Bonn on September 1, 1948. Its task was to draft a constitution for a West German partial state. The president of the Parliamentary Council was Konrad Adenauer, who would later become Federal Chancellor. His role was controversial from the outset. The SPD later tried to discredit him as the "Allied Chancellor" – unjustly, as this book proves. For Adenauer saw his task as creating an atmosphere in which constitution-making under occupation could even become possible. It was his achievement to reconcile the interests of the German political parties with those of the Allies and with global political requirements. Only in this way could the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany succeed.


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