How Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt Divided Berlin

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Berlin’s fate was sealed at the 1945 Yalta Conference: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up between the victorious powers - American, British, French and Soviet. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the four powers were no longer united by their common purpose of defeating Germany they wasted little time reverting to their pre-war hostility toward each other.

Writer and historian Giles Milton joins Dan on the podcast to share the story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. They discuss how rival systems, rival ideologies and rival personalities ensured that the German capital became an explosive battleground.

Giles Milton's new book is called Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World.

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0:44.7	They're not learning ships to and from the coast of Ukraine, strangling its trade, its industry.
0:49.7	We're talking about NATO. Why it exists? Should it exist? Should it have expanded? Who's in it? Who's out of it?
0:55.5	So I thought we'd do a little episode on Russian aggression. The past, soviet aggression, the past, around Berlin.
1:01.4	Hitler's former capital. The occupation of Berlin by the Western Allies and the Russians led to great friction between them and helped to cause a breakdown in relations that would lead into the Cold War.
1:13.6	We've got Charles Milton on the podcast. He's written a book about Berlin. You've heard him on the podcast a couple years ago talking about it.
1:18.8	He's now back. I thought we'd get him on. We'd talk about it in view of some of the more recent developments.
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