The Russians stepped up their offensive against the West at the West's most vulnerable pointblockaded Berlin.
In the wide Potsdamer Platz, which juts from the Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded.
"It Won't Be Long." The Potsdamer Platz was the vortex of battle....
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