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Berlin as a Divided City

West and East Germany By war's end up to a third of Berlin had been destroyed by concerted Allied air raids, Soviet artillery and street fighting.

Berlin as a Divided City

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The so-called Stunde Null—zero hour—marked a new beginning for the city. Greater Berlin was divided into four sectors by the Allies under the London Protocol of 1944, as follows: the American sector, consisting of the Boroughs of Neukölln, Kreuzberg, Tempelhof, Schöneberg, Steglitz and Zehlendorf; (see: commandants of Berlin American Sector) the British sector, consisting of the Boroughs of Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf and Spandau; (see: commandants of Berlin British Sector) the French sector, consisting of the Boroughs of Wedding and Reinickendorf; (See: commandants of Berlin French Sector) the Soviet sector, consisting of the Boroughs of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Pankow, Weißensee, Friedrichshain, Lichtenberg, Treptow, and Köpenick; (see: commandants of Berlin Soviet Sector). The Soviet victors of the Battle of Berlin immediately occupied all of Berlin.

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