Deterrence in Berlin
“Before I back Khrushchev against the wall and put him to the final test, the freedom of all Western Europe will have to be at stake.”
John F. Kennedy, on his way back from the Vienna Summit of 1961.[1]

With the signing of the Occupation Protocol on September 12, 1944, the Allies agreed on the post-war territorial division of Germany. The protocol provide…
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