What happened to Berlin when the Nazis were defeated?

Answer 1

Berlin was not strongly affected by World War I per se. The only exception to this was the riots in Berlin in 1918 that resulted with the abdication of the Prussian monarchy and the rise of the Weimar Republic, which is the government which sued for peace at Versailles. Under the Weimar government, Berlin became a very racy and progressive city. It had one of the highest prostitution levels in Europe and was host to a number of artists, dancers, and liberal scholars. Berlin was particularly famous as a center for swing dancing, so much so that when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s and completely changed Berlin into an ultraconservative den, they consider swing dancers as perverse as the Jews and would execute them for the crime of "dancing profanely".

Answer 2

Close to one quarter of pre-war (1937) Germany was de facto annexed by the Allies; roughly 10 million Germans were either expelled from this territory or not permitted to return to it if they had fled during the war. The remainder of Germany was partitioned into four zones of occupation, coordinated by the Allied Control Council. The Saar was detached and put in economic union with France in 1947. In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was created out of the Western zones. The Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic.

Post-WWII occupation zones of Germany, in its 1937 borders, with territories east of the Oder-Neisse line shown as annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union, plus the Saar protectorate and divided Berlin. East Germany was formed by the Soviet Zone, while West Germany was formed by the American, British, and French zones in 1949 and the Saar in 1957.

Basically, Berlin was split up into two sections, a democratic one and a communist one. This later led to the formation of the Berlin Wall in 1961

Answer 3

Berlin was not very strongly affected by World War I. The only major event to take place there towards the end of the war were the riots that led to the overthrow of the Prussian monarchy and the establishment of the Weimar Republic. Under the Weimar government, Berlin became an incredibly racy and progressive city, fielding an incredible number of prostitutes, dance clubs, artists, and similar people. Of course, when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, the climate of Berlin changed tremendously in the other direction.