Editing Vienna (section)

=== Four-power Vienna===
[[File:Wien Besatzungszonen.png|thumb|[[Allied-occupied Austria|Allied-occupied]] zones between 1945 and 1955 following [[World War II]]|left]]
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After the war, Vienna was part of [[Allied-occupied Austria|Soviet-occupied Eastern Austria]] until September 1945. That month, Vienna was divided into sectors by the four powers: the US, the UK, France, and the [[Soviet Union]] and supervised by an [[Allied Commission]]. The four-power occupation of Vienna differed in one key respect from that of Berlin: the central area of the city, known as the first district, constituted an ''international zone'' in which the four powers alternated control on a monthly basis. The city was policed by the four powers on a day-to-day basis using the "four soldiers in a jeep" method, which had one soldier from each nation sitting together. The four powers all had separate headquarters, the Soviets in [[Palais Epstein]] next to the Parliament, the French in Hotel Kummer on Mariahilferstraße, the Americans in the [[Oesterreichische Nationalbank|National Bank]], and the British in [[Schönbrunn Palace|Schönnbrunn Palace]]. The division of the city was not comparable to that of [[Berlin Wall|Berlin]]. Although the borders between the sectors were marked, travel between them was freely possible.

During the ten years of the four-power occupation, Vienna was a hotbed for international espionage between the [[Western Bloc|Western]] and [[Eastern bloc]]s, which deeply distrusted each other. The city experienced an economic upturn due to the [[Marshall Plan]].

The atmosphere of four-power Vienna is the background for [[Graham Greene]]'s screenplay for the film ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949). The film's [[theme music]] was composed and performed by Viennese musician [[Anton Karas]] using a [[zither]]. Later he adapted the screenplay as a novel and published it. Occupied Vienna is also depicted in the 1991 [[Philip Kerr]] novel, ''[[A German Requiem (novel)|A German Requiem]]''.