Deutsche Geschichte

German History

Die Berliner Mauer - Die Wende
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Glossary

Besatzungszonen
Occupation Zones

As part of the Potsdam Agreement (Potsdamer Abkommen) of August 2, 1945, the Allies (die Alliierten) created four zones or sectors of occupation (Besatzungszonen/Sektoren) for Germany and the capital of Berlin. (A similar set of zones was also set up in Austria and Vienna.) Each of the Allies had a sector which they administered. The Soviet sector was the eastern part of Germany and the eastern part of Berlin. It was this Sowjetzone that became communist East Germany (die Deutsche Demokratische Republik) in 1949, when both East and West Germany were established. The Allied sectors in the western part of Berlin thus became a land island in the middle of East Germany.

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