An aerial view of the Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin, where the Soviet, British, and American sectors met in August 1949. Germany was still a destroyed nation even four years after World War II ended. ..…
The day afterwards, British to West Germany, Sir Christopher Steel, commented in dispatch to London 'I must stay that I have always wondered that East Germans have waited so long to seal this boundary. ... Americans decided that they were, on balance, happy to see Germany,..…
The opposition to the motion came from members of Christian Democratic Union and Alternative für Deutschland .. During World War, Dresden was firebombed by British and American bombers in campaign that destroyed most of the center and killed 25,000 to 35,000 people. ..…