The Sixth Handoff in Berlin
West Berlin, October 1962, and the city was a wound that had not been allowed to close, a pocket of capitalist air surrounded by the gray body of East Germany like a splinter trapped in flesh that had learned to incorporate the foreign object rather than expel it, the checkpoints at Bornholmer Strasse and Friedrichstrasse manned by soldiers in uniforms that changed color depending on which side...
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