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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.[1]

Notable AMGOT

This form of controlled government was implemented in the states of Germany, Italy,[2] Austria and Japan, amongst others.

  • A franchise stamp issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) in 1948 to exempt travellers from fees when crossing borders.[3]
    A franchise stamp issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) in 1948 to exempt travellers from fees when crossing borders.[3]
  • Three revenue stamps of the AMG from 1950 and 1951.
    Three revenue stamps of the AMG from 1950 and 1951.

Opposition of France

A dollar-like 100-franc note produced by the Americans and supplied in June 1944 following Operation "Overlord".

US President

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.[citation needed] De Gaulle would, however, later claim in his memoirs that he blocked AMGOT.[4]

The AMGOT would have been implemented in France after

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.[5]

Germany

Main article: Allied Control Council

Germany's control was notably divided amongst the powers of the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Italy

Sicily

After

Operation Husky, with the Allied Invasion of Sicily on July 10, 1943, the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) was established with Staff Officer Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell and Civil Affairs officer colonel Charles Poletti
.

Interviewed by the News Chronicle, Rennell was asked about the controversial decision to retain the services of the Carabinieri and other police and officials who had worked for the Fascist regime, and answered "They are doing an excellent job and deserve to be trusted. Their oath had been to the King, not to Mussolini. (...) We do not seek the support of any political group, neither anti-Fascists nor any others. For the time being, all political gatherings are forbidden in Sicily. We are a military administration, we have no mandate to make any political or social reforms".

In February 1944 the AMGOT handed over the administration to the

Badoglio Cabinet
. It continued to operate as "Allied Military Government" in the occupied Italian territories until the end of the war.

Free Territory of Trieste

The Allied Military Government of the

London Memorandum
, among the United States, United Kingdom, Italy and Yugoslavia, to become a civil administration. Zone A was assigned to Italy (not yet a member of the UNO) and Zone B was assigned to Yugoslavia.

See also

References

  1. ^ United States Dept. of the Army - General Staff (1943). Report of the Chief of Staff, United States Army, to the Secretary of the Army. p. 90. Retrieved June 13, 2021. Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories was extended in Sicily as rapidly as the enemy was cleared from a community.
  2. ^ Friendly Isle[permanent dead link], Time, July 26, 1943
  3. The Revenue Journal
    , Vol. XXII, No. 3, December 2011, pp. 129-139.
  4. ^ Kim Munholland, Rock of Contention, Free French Americans at War in New Caledonia 1940–1945, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, 2005, p. 190.
  5. ^ Charles L. Robertson, "When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France"

Trieste Revenue stamps listed in Italy Revenues" by J.Barefoot Ltd, York, 2013,

ISBN 0-906845-73-4
.

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