Book and DVD were published in Conjunction With a Symposium Given on 27 October 2011 at the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. From the end of World War II in 1945, the question of Berlin's status 90 miles within the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany) and the Soviet Union's zone of occupation, along with the status of Germany among the community of nations, remained a source of tension between the East and West. The first of a three-part project, this collection covers the period of 1945 to the end of 1961. The accompanying DVD contains over 370+ documents and more than 4, 800+ pages of material..