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Berlin’s governmental status and structure during the postwar years, particularly since the Soviet withdrawal from the Kommandatura in mid-1948 and the split in the government of the metropolis, thus has been one of the most unusual and complex in modern times. It is comprised of variegated layers of authority — both German and Allied — ranging from the central metropolitan government to the Bezirke, from the multilateral Allied Kommandatura to the unilateral Allied sectoral administrations. In addition, the governance of Berlin has been vitally affected by the jurisdiction and activities of the West German Federal Republic and the Communist-controlled East German Government, as well as by the former quadripartite Allied Control Council, the tripartite Allied High Commission for Germany, and the unilateral Soviet Control Commission.
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See the article on “Who Has Berlin Has Germany,” by Sebastian Haffner, in Berliner Illustrirte (1961), pp. 173-177. Various aspects of the problem are discussed in American Enterprise Association, Special Analysis: The Berlin Crisis, 3 parts (Washington, D.C., 1961); David Heller and Deane Heller, The Berlin Crisis (Derby, Conn., 1961); John Mander, Berlin: Hostage for the West (Baltimore, 1962); Avrahm G. Mezerik (ed.), The Berlin Crisis (New York, 1959); Otto-Suhr-Institut, Berlin: Brennpunkt deutschen Schicksals (Berlin, 1960); Charles B. Robson (ed.), Berlin: Pivot of German Destiny (Chapel Hill, N. Carolina, 1960); Klaus P. Schulz, Berlin zwischen Freiheit und Diktatur (Berlin, 1961); Hans Speier, Divided Berlin: The Anatomy of Soviet Political Blackmail (New York, 1961) and The Soviet Threat to Berlin (Santa Monica, Calif., 1960); Department of State, Berlin: 1961 (Washington, D.C., 1961) and Berlin: City Between Two Worlds (Washington, D.C., 1952 and 1960); and others listed in the bilbiography below.
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American Enterprise Association, op. cit., p. 37.
President Kennedy’s report to the nation, July 25, 1961, in United States Senate, Documents on Germany, 1944–1961, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, D.C., 1961), p. 695.
Ibid., pp. 681-687.
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Plischke, E. (1963). Concluding Statement. In: Government and Politics of Contemporary Berlin. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9135-7_7
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