Editing West Berlin (section)

==Exclaves==
{{Main|Exclaves of West Berlin in East Germany}}
[[File:Occupied Berlin.svg|thumb|Map of divided Berlin, indicating by broken lines at Berlin's western border the land swap decided by the Allies. Five of the larger of West Berlin's originally twelve exclaves ([[Steinstücken]], Laßzinswiesen, Falkenhagener Wiesen, Wüste Mark, Kienhorst<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berlin.de/imperia/md/content/mauer/a_6251_19_1988.pdf?start&ts=1242213630&file=a_6251_19_1988.pdf |title=Übersichtskarte: Berlin (West) |access-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053959/http://www.berlin.de/imperia/md/content/mauer/a_6251_19_1988.pdf?start&ts=1242213630&file=a_6251_19_1988.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>) are shown.]] West Berlin's border was identical to the municipal boundary of Berlin as defined in the [[Greater Berlin Act]] of 1920 and amended in 1938, and the border between the Soviet sector and the French, British, and American sectors respectively, which followed the boundaries of Berlin administrative boroughs as defined in the same years. Another amendment was added in 1945 at the border between the British sector of Berlin (ceding [[West-Staaken]]) and the Soviet zone (ceding the [[Seeburger Zipfel|Seeburg Salient]]) so that the [[Gatow Airport|Wehrmacht airfield at Berlin-Gatow]] became part of the British sector and the airfield at [[Staaken|Berlin-Staaken]] became part of the Soviet sector. The resulting borderline was further complicated with a lot of geographical oddities, including a number of exclaves and enclaves that Greater Berlin had inside some neighbouring municipalities since 1920, all of which happened to become part of the British or American sectors after 1945, so that parts of West Berlin came to be surrounded by East Germany

Furthermore, the Gatow/Staaken exchange in August 1945 resulted in the geographically western half of Berlin-Staaken, which was located in the western outskirts of the city, becoming ''de jure'' Soviet occupied. However, the ''de facto'' administration remained with the Borough of Spandau in the British sector.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Therefore, all inhabitants of Staaken could vote in West Berlin's city state elections in 1948 and 1950. On 1 February 1951, East German [[Volkspolizei]] surprised the people of western Staaken by occupying the area and ended its administration by the Spandau Borough; instead, western Staaken became an exclave of the Soviet occupied borough [[Mitte (locality)|Berlin-Mitte]] in the city centre.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} However, on 1 June 1952, western Staaken's ''de facto'' administration was placed with neighbouring East German [[Falkensee]] in the East German district [[Nauen]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}