German Democratic Republic (GDR): UK Claims against the German Democratic Republic: UK/GDR Claims Negotiations

A file of correspondence and reports concerning British financial claims involving East Germany. The documents cover preparations for the ongoing claims negotiations to be held between the two countries; the history of negotiations and the registration of British claims; details of the East German counterclaims; and details of individual cases. Other subjects discussed in the file include a 1948 currency reform that allowed for claims against the confiscation of German Reichsmarks; the implications for individuals who have changed their nationality since the end of the world; and a U.S.-Czechoslovak settlement on defaulted dollar bonds. The file also covers the progress of claims negotiations between the U.S. and East Germany; discussions with Greek officials on the progress of British claims; and Canadian interest in a U.K.-Yugoslav financial settlement of 1948, and in a Yugoslav decree that confiscated property owned by German nationals and those of German ancestry.