Alexis hello. Im dr. Alexis albion and am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. Today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. Between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the oviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. That division became concrete with the direction of the berlin wall in 1961. The wall was put up by east germans ostensibly to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, by the soviet
Archives, museums, and Historic Sites around the country. Up next, we visit the up next, we visit the International Spy museum to tour their exhibit on cold war berlin. Our guide is lead curator alexis albion who explains how the city came to be divided after world war ii and shows us artifacts used by the east germans to spy on visitors and control their own citizens. Alexis hello. Im lou alexis albion dr. Alexis albion and am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. Today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. Between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone
I am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. Have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. France,ed states, United Kingdom and soviet union. Soviet union again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of and berlin. The became concrete with direction of the berlin wall with the berlin wall. The wall was put up by east germans of stents of late to keep people out. And with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of skills in the east. The east germans called what we called the berlin wall the antifascist fork. It was to keep out the fascist, to keep out the west. Keep million of these germans in as well. The city of berlin was completely isolated
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