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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
Here is what I have:
"With a fellow officer from the Geographic Section, he helped prepare for the European Advisory Commission a plan for the zonal administration of Berlin, and in so doing made one of his enduring contributions to German history: 'I pointed to the Grunewald and Dahlem area on the map and jokingly said, "This is where my relations had houses, this ought to be the American section."' The lines they drew have stood ever since."
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Assuming you are talking about an American, he didn't choose the actual zones - the Russians did that - but he may have been the one that got us to put our country in the Southern sector blank. Of course, since we also got the Southern sector of Germany proper (which we didn't want), I think a less folkloric explanation is likely, if not as interesting.
This, BTW, was the US counterproposal from early 1944: