Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories

The Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (originally abbreviated AMGOT, later AMG) was the form of military rule administered by Allied forces during and after World War II within European territories they occupied. This form of controlled government was implemented in the states of Germany, Italy, Austria and Japan, amongst others. File:1948 Allied Military Government franchise stamp.jpg|A [[franchise stamp]] issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) in 1948 to exempt travellers from fees when crossing borders."Germany: Allied Military Government Travel Permits 1947-51" by Theo J.F. Schalke in [[Revenue Society|The Revenue Journal]], Vol. XXII, No. 3, December 2011, pp. 129-139. File:Allied Military Government stamps.jpg|Three [[revenue stamp]]s of the AMG from 1950 and 1951. US President Franklin Roosevelt insisted that an AMGOT should be implemented in France, but this was opposed by both Henry Stimson (US Secretary of War) and John J. McCloy (US Under-Secretary for War), as well as Allied Europe Supreme Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, who had been strongly opposed to the imposition of AMGOT in North Africa. Eisenhower, unlike Roosevelt, wanted to cooperate with Charles de Gaulle; he secured a last-minute promise from Roosevelt on the eve of D-Day that the Allied officers would not act as military governors and would instead cooperate with the local authorities as the Allied forces liberated French territory. De Gaulle would, however, later claim in his memoirs that he blocked AMGOT. The AMGOT would have been implemented in France after its liberation if not for the Free French establishing control of the country per the Provisional Government of the French Republic in the name of the Free French Forces and the united French Resistance (FFI) following the liberation of Paris by the French themselves instead of the Allies, in August 1944. Allied Control Council Germany's control was notably divided amongst the powers of the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

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