... under one administration since the occupying powers wanted to achieve their own political ideas. Germany, and especially Berlin, had to be the battlefield of the ideologies and became "both a symptom and a cause of the Cold War. "1 After the war Germany was sectioned into four occupation zones: The Russian ... 1980's. In an excerpt in 1948 British foreign minister Ernest Bevin describes the relations between a flourishing Germany and a Europe being immune against the communist thread. He states that the economy of Eastern Germany was declining, resulting from the Soviet exploitation for...

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