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The Path to the Berlin Wall - Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany (Hardcover)
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The Path to the Berlin Wall - Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany (Hardcover)
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Total price: R2,988
Discovery Miles: 29 880
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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. Tracing this
path from a German perspective, Manfred Wilke draws on recently
published conversations between Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht,
head of the East German state, in order to reconstruct the
coordination process between these two leaders and the events that
led to building the Berlin Wall.
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