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How Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt Divided Berlin

Dan Snow's History Hit

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What to Do With Defeated Germany?

The great war lords were busy dividing up the post war world. They decide they re going to split germany into two separate parts. But there is one big potential problem for the future here, and that is that berlin sits squarely inside the eastern soviet occupied area of germany. And so if this war time alliance goes sour, if things go wrong, when it will be quite easy for him to cut off the sectors of western berlin.

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