 When the Soviets did not fulfil their side of the agreement, the US temporarily halted shipments east, and they were never resumed.It was later shown that although utilized for cold war propaganda reasons, the main reason for halting shipments east was not the behavior of the USSR but rather the recalcitrant behavior of France.Material received by the USSR included equipment from the Kugel-Fischer ballbearing plant at Schweinfurt, the Daimler-Benz underground aircraft-engine plant at Obrigheim, the Deschimag shipyards at Bremen-Weser, and the Gendorf powerplant.,

Military industries and those owned by the state, by Nazi activists, and by war criminals were confiscated by the Soviet occupation authority.