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The Path to the Berlin Wall : Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany / Manfred Wilke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782382881
  • 9781782382898
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 943.087 23
LOC classification:
  • DD257.25 .W47913 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of Germany, 1949–89 -- Map of Berlin, 1949–89 -- Introduction -- Part I. The Polarization of Post war Europe -- Part II . The Fight for Berlin -- Part III . The End of the Second Berlin Crisis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of Germany, 1949–89 -- Map of Berlin, 1949–89 -- Introduction -- Part I. The Polarization of Post war Europe -- Part II . The Fight for Berlin -- Part III . The End of the Second Berlin Crisis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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