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Twentieth Century British History 1994 5(3):320-350; doi:10.1093/tcbh/5.3.320
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Preserving Law and Order: Britain, the United States, and the East German Uprising of 1953

KLAUS LARRES

Queen's University of Belfast

Feverishly the strikers watched for signs of intervention by the American and British occupation forces. It was beyond their comprehension . . . that the nations of the free world with whom they felt themselves allied, should stand idly by while the Soviet Union crushed the rising with its war machine. In some places rumour had it that American tanks had crossed the zonal border, that American aircraft were to drop weapons.1


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