Immediately after WWII, the German capitol of Berlin was divided into four sectors, each occupied by one of the four major allied powers (the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France).
Well, kind of. During the Cold War Berlin was an occupied city--there were foreign military forces there and they formed the official government of Berlin. (The reality in West Berlin was a little different: while the US Commander Berlin, British Commander Berlin and French Commander Berlin were the governor of the city on a rotating basis, all power had been handed over to the Lord Mayor of Berlin.) West Berlin was occupied by the United States, the British and the French. France held the northern districts--in some ways the most important because West Berlin's airport was the French Air Force base of Tegel; Britain held the middle sectors; and the United States held the southern sectors. The Soviets held all of the eastern sectors.
The city of Berlin was divided into four sectors in practice, and really amounted to two sectors in practice... West Berlin was part of West Germany, and was thus supported by NATO. East Berlin was part of East Germay, and was supported by the Warsaw Pact and COMECON countries.
France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
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Berlin was divided into 4 zones, officially known as sectors: British, American, French and Soviet
Berlin was the city in Europe that was divided into four sectors following World War II. The sectors were controlled by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union. This division symbolized the broader geopolitical tensions of the Cold War and ultimately led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, separating East and West Berlin.
During the Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949, the airlift primarily supplied the western sectors of Berlin, which were controlled by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. These sectors included West Berlin, specifically the districts of Charlottenburg, Kreuzberg, and Neukölln. The airlift was a crucial operation to provide food, fuel, and other essential supplies to the residents of these areas, circumventing the Soviet blockade.
unification of the western sectors of germany
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Berlin was divided into east and west sectors. It was one of the crossings at the Berlin Wall from East to West Germany.