1. So dated, although this “top document” was apparently not signed until a few minutes after midnight, i.e., until August 2. See ante, p. 596, footnote 38. The texts of the Protocol published by the British and Soviet Governments do not include this “top document”, and they place the signatures and dateline after annex ii at the end of the Protocol. In the British text the dateline reads, “Berlin, 2nd August, 1945.” In the Soviet text it reads, in translation, “Berlin, 1 August 1945.”