Item COLD WAR 26/4 - Transcript of interview with academic and former intelligence officer Lord Annan, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Noël Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, Political Division, British Foreign Office, Germany, 1945-[1946], relating to Annan's service at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), North West Europe campaign, 1945; conditions in postwar Germany, 1945-1946; Berlin as a partitioned city, 1945; Soviet coercion of the political process by compelling the German Social Democrats to amalgamate with the German Communist Party, 1945-1946; relations between the administrations of the USSR, the USA, UK and France in Berlin and in Germany, 1945-1946; the financial burden on the UK, 1945-1947; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the unpopularity of the Soviets in Germany, 1945-1949; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; the character of Gen Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, 2nd Bt, Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission for Germany, 1945-1947; the division of Germany by the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic, 1949; the demise of the UK as a world imperialist power, 1945-1947.