Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin: Behind Enemy Lines

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Newspapers consulted
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The Berlin border as an object of ‘critical border studies’
	The cold-war border in Berlin
	Behind the lines
	The ludic nature of the ‘War of Nerves’
	Policing the outpost, frontier city
	Aims and rationale
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: A messy and entangled border complex
	Chapter 1: Brinkmanship and intransigence at the frontier
		Ironing out the kinks in the Iron Curtain
		Riding to the rescue: Sending in the cavalry
		Theodolites at dawn
		The crowded focal point of Potsdamer Platz
		Pawn in the Cold War: Staaken
		The Ring around Berlin is tightened (May 1952–November 1958)
		Inadvertent military and civilian incursions
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2: Enclaves and exclaves
		Entangled jurisdictions and cross-border responsibilities
		Soviet ‘Enclaves’
		An archipelago of freedom surrounded by a sea of repression (and vice versa)
		Mexican standoff in June 1952
		Steinstücken: ‘Little Island of Freedom’
		Annexation
		An outlaw existence beyond the law
		Barbarians at the garden gate
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: S-Bahn incidents
		The UGO strike (May 1949)
		Extraterritorial legal limbo
		Continued overlapping jurisdictions and conflicts over responsibility for policing the S-Bahn
		Reappearance of an old struggle between the Extreme Left and Extreme Right
		Accidental border crossing
		Kidnapping from the S-Bahn in broad daylight
		Flag warfare
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Shadow-boxing feints and real incursions
	Chapter 4: The paramilitary response to threatened invasions
		Expected invasion
		Fighting with honey rather than vinegar: Coffee and cake policy
		Soldiers in police uniforms: Force B/riot police (Bereitschaftspolizei)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Policing demonstrations and protests near the border
		Major incursion (15 August 1951)
		1953 Uprising
		Operation Eisenhower: Food relief
		Rubber truncheon warfare against communist cosh boys
		Local control and allegations of corruption
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III: Contagious capitalism and ideological subversion
	Chapter 6: Illicit smuggling
		Price dumping and economic war
		Ban on cross-border shopping (November 1952)
		Professional trafficking
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Wanderers between two worlds
		Cultural warfare in pursuit of legitimacy
		The magnetic attraction of West Berlin
		Border cinemas
		Comic book killers
		Cross-border partying
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV: Covert warfare in cold-war Berlin
	Chapter 8: The murky world of espionage
		The Stasi
		Soviet agents in the West Berlin police
		Espionage case histories
		Freelance, non-governmental espionage agencies
		The Fighting Group Against Inhumanity (KgU)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: The art of kidnapping
		Linse kidnapping (July 1952)
		Kidnapping by force
		Policemen dragged over the border
		Bauer case (Christmas 1952)
		The Truschnowitsch case (April 1954)
		Renewed kidnappings by criminals
		Use of drugs
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Impact of the Berlin Wall
		The ‘Berlin Crisis’ of 1958–1961
		The Berlin Wall (13 August 1961)
		Continued escape attempts
		Shoot to kill
		The Fechter riots (August 1962)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Conclusion
		A new type of psychological warfare or ‘War of Nerves’
		Democracy and dictatorship
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index