Adaptation and translation of lectures delivered at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin during the summer of 1959.

The history of Berlin as Germany's capital /Wolfgang Haus -- The splitting of Berlin in 1948 / Hans Herzfeld -- West Berlin : city and state / Heinz Kreutzer -- The Berlin situation as a socio-political problem / Otto Stammer -- The economic viability of Berlin / Franz Kluge -- Cultural policy on the two sides of the Brandenburg Gate / Joachim Tiburtius -- City planning in divided Berlin / Friedrich Furlinger -- The United States and the Berlin problem : an American view / Edgar R. Rosen -- Berlin - pivot of German destiny / Hans Reif.