What had been from the beginning a marriage of convenience between the Americans and the Soviets frayed even further with the conclusion of the fighting against Japan. In Europe, the Allied Powers (Britain, the United States, Soviet Russia, and the Free French forces) began to argue over how to divide conquered German territory. In the final months of the fighting, the Americans and British had been only too happy to allow the Soviet Red Army to bear the brunt of the fighting to take Berlin, a campaign all sides understood would require massive casualties. The Anglo-American forces finally met their counterparts in the Red Army at the Elbe River, west of Berlin. The location of the initially jubilant link-up ultimately left the status of Berlin, the German capital, an open question.
Source:
WGBH, “Berlin Airlift Map,” The Berlin Airlift (accessed February 4, 2011).
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