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Article: Transcultural perioperative nursing in Berlin.(International Perioperative Nursing)
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- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Berlin is the official capital of unified Germany, although Bonn, which is the capital of former West Germany, remains the provisional seat of government. Berlin was a symbol of the cold war (de, tensions between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies). For more than 40 years, Berlin was a divided city as a result of the post-World War II (WWII) Potsdam Conference, which divided the city physically (de, the United States, France, and Great Britain controlled West Berlin, and the former Soviet Union controlled East Berlin), politically, and ideologically. In 1948, the Soviets closed all roads and blocked all railroad and barge traffic going in and out of Berlin in an ...