Reparations (Plant and Equipment)

HC Deb 05 June 1946 vol 423 cc322-3W

45. Brigadier Mackeson

asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give an estimate of the total value of machinery removed to each of the Allied countries concerned from Germany and Austria since VE-Day.

Mr. J. Hynd

Plant and equipment to be removed from the Western zones of Germany as reparations to the Western Allies are to be allocated by the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency at Brussels. I understand that the Agency will shortly be in a position to make its first allocation but none has been made so far. Nor has any plant or equipment been delivered to Russia from the Western zones of Germany. I have no information about the plant and equipment which may have been delivered from the Russian zone, under the terms of the Potsdam Protocol, to Russia and Poland.