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The Path to the Berlin Wall: Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany

The Path to the Berlin Wall: Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany

Wilke, Manfred

Hardcover

General World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 1782382887
ISBN13: 9781782382881
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Apr 1 2014
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The long path to the Berlin Wall began in 1945, when Josef Stalin instructed the Communist Party to take power in the Soviet occupation zone while the three Western allies secured their areas of influence. When Germany was split into separate states in 1949, Berlin remained divided into four sectors, with West Berlin surrounded by the GDR but lingering as a captivating showcase for Western values and goods. Following a failed Soviet attempt to expel the allies from West Berlin with a blockade in 1948-49, a second crisis ensued from 1958-61, during which the Soviet Union demanded once and for all the withdrawal of the Western powers and the transition of West Berlin to a Free City. Ultimately Nikita Khrushchev decided to close the border in hopes of halting the overwhelming exodus of East Germans into the West.

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