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Since the end of World War II Germany and Berlin, in particular, have provided the Soviet Union with convenient points on which to apply pressure upon the West. In September 1955 the Russians formally terminated the occupation status of their zone and recognized the “sovereignty” of the “German Democratic Republic”, but in doing so they reserved to the Soviet Army control over the movement of British, French, and American military personnel and freight between West Berlin and the Federal German Republic which the Western Big Three had recognized as a sovereign state in 1954.
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© 1963 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Embree, G.D. (1963). Introduction. In: Embree, G.D. (eds) The Soviet Union and the German Question September 1958 – June 1961. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2749-1_1
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