Berlin in the Cold War 1948-1990

<p>This volume consists of a book and downloadable resources containing a facsimile collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to critical developments regarding Berlin its quadripartite administration and role in the Cold War during the crises of 1948-49 1959-61 and 1988-90. </p><p>These events were each set within very different international contexts but four interrelated themes are nevertheless common to each of the three chapters of the volume: the British Government’s insistence in conjunction with the Americans and the French on upholding and safeguarding the rights of the four occupying powers in Berlin; British concerns with broader matters of military security in Western Europe as a whole and Germany in particular; the interaction of the four occupying powers with one another; and the questions raised by demographic change especially population movements from east to west. All of the documents dealing with the events of 1989-90 fall within the UK’s 30-year rule and are therefore not yet in the public domain.</p>