Subject: Re: Re straddling - military causes it, too<br/>
Date: May 03, 2003 @ 08:06<br/>
Author: anorak222 (&quot;anorak222&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1490415588">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; There was one building straddling the East-West German border where<br/>
&gt; the upper floors were east and the lower were west.  The East German<br/>
&gt; Army occupied the uppor floor, and a west German couple lived<br/>
&gt; downstairs.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Are you sure it wasn&#39;t just a right/left part of the building? I seem to remember that, but I forgot where it was. If you remember the name of the location, maybe we could do some googling.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The border at that point was a result of the position of<br/>
&gt; US-Russian troops when the war ended. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Unlikely. The East/West German border (occupation zones then) was decided in several Allied post-war conferences which took place in 1944/1945 (London/Potsdam/Yalta). Here&#39;s a map which is a result of those agreements: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wschwanke.de/tmp/germany_map-d.jpg">http://www.wschwanke.de/tmp/germany_map-d.jpg</a><br/>
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The borders were drawn along previous internal German state or province boundaries, with minor corrections in two or three locations. They&#39;re a case of &quot;upgrading&quot; lower level borders, as Ernst Stavro Blofeld put it. Actual location of troops was not part of the decision process.<br/>
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Regards</div>