AT THE HEART OF THE COLD WAR: THE POTSDAM MILITARY MISSION 1947-1989
AT THE HEART OF THE COLD WAR: THE POTSDAM...

AT THE HEART OF THE COLD WAR: THE POTSDAM MILITARY MISSION 1947-1989

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 The Potsdam Military Mission For more than forty years, the Military Missions of France, Great Britain, and the United States, attached to the Soviet High Command in Germany — the Potsdam Missions — operated behind the Iron Curtain to observe at close range the spearhead of Warsaw Pact forces stationed in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

 

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Drawing on numerous testimonies and previously unpublished photographic documents, the author makes of this volume a collective work that reveals a little-known aspect of the Cold War. In specially equipped vehicles, Allied crews criss-crossed the territory of East Germany, outwitting the formidable surveillance system put in place by the Soviets and their East German Stasi allies. Tracking military convoys and trains, observing airfields and barracks, penetrating restricted zones, they recorded everything they saw or heard, gathering invaluable intelligence under a single rule: do not get caught.

At the crossroads of intelligence, special operations, and diplomacy, the Potsdam Military Missions stood at the vanguard of the Cold War. They helped make surprise impossible for our adversaries and their victory uncertain.

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