Kidnap City
Subtitle: Cold War Berlin (Contributions to the Study of World History)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780313323614
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political imprisonment; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History; History - General History; History: World; West Germany; Europe - Germany; Government - Comparative; United States - 20th Century; History / Europe / General; World - General; 1945-1990; 20th century; Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Espionage; Germany; Germany (East); Kidnapping; Secret service
First sentence: In reporting on postwar Berlin, a U.S. Military Government observer noted a strange phenomenon: "From the very beginning of the Occupation in 1945, people have disappeared from Berlin.