The Shadow Dossier — The City Where Every Side Was Listening

The Shadow Dossier · Oct 14, 2026 · 5m · transcript

At the end of the Second World War, Vienna, like Berlin, was divided into occupation zones controlled by the four Allied powers: the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Unlike Berlin, Vienna's very center, the historic inner city, was placed under joint four-power control, meaning representatives of all four militaries patrolled the same streets together, in the same jeeps, for a full decade, from 1945 until the Austrian State Treaty restored full sovereignty in 1955.