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Origin of the Crisis
The military forces of the United States occupied a
sector of the city of Berlin in 1945 under arrangements
concluded among the Allied Powers in the European Advisory
1
Commission before the end of the hostilities in Europe.
At the time of Germany's capitulation, letters were
exchanged between Marshal Stalin and President Truman,
in compliance with which the actual occupation of Berlin
2
was carried out
United States forces which had advanced
into territory assigned to the Soviet Zone in Germany were
withdrawn into the American Zone previously agreed upon,
or moved into the American sector of Berlin. Because
Berlin was entirely surrounded by territory of the Soviet
Zone of germany, it was necessary to arrange for the supply
of the American garrison in Berlin from the American Zone
of Germany, and for other Berlin-Western Zone communications.
The initial arrangements to this end, tentatively agreed
upon in conferences among the military representatives of
the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union,
provided that American and British forces were to have the
3
use of one railway and one highway from Magdeburg to Berlin.
Subsequent agreements reached in the Allied Control Council
established an air corridor to Berlin twenty miles wide, to
be open to flights by American and British planes. They also
defined the amount of rail traffic to Berlin necessary to
4
support the military and civilian needs of the Western Powers.
These various arrangements, together with the Truman-Stalin
1. Docs. 1 and 2.
2. Doc. 21.
3. Doc. 8.
4. Docs. 3 and 4.
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