But the map of Berlin is interesting. It shows the city divided almost exactly in half along a north-south line, except for the city center, the Mitte, cut out and given to the Soviets. This was where my airbnb apartment was, just off of Alexanderplatz, along Alexandrestraße. The BrandenburgerTor is at the west end of this cutout, just inside the Soviet zone.
Map of Berlin from the Berlin Wall Memorial, showing the Berlin Wall in red.
Map of the German occupations zones. From Wikipedia.
As can be seen from the entire map of postwar Germany, the US occupation zone included Bavaria. And if you look closely at the photos of the town of Garmisch here, you can barely see barracks that are part of a US installation, one of the few remaining in Germany.
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