It was as an interpreter that he took part on negotiations over the Wanfried agreement which led to a small ( but locally significant ) change in the frontier between the US and Soviet military occupation zones . After the US forces were withdrawn from Bad Sooden , Baier and his mother relocated the short distance to Eschwege . From here he provided news reports to the regional newspaper , the " Kasseler Zeitung " . In 1947 he made his way to the local university , at Marburg , hoping to enroll as a medical student . Study places were in short supply , however , and the university was only accepting for matriculation those medical students who had already completed some terms of study before the outbreak of war back in 1939 . Instead he embarked on a degree course as an " external student " in Contemporary History , Marburg having taken over the Institute for Contemporary History formerly at Königsberg , following the destruction of the former East Prussian capital . He emerged with a degree in April 1950 . While working for his degree Baier also contributed reports for the " Hessische Neueste Nachrichten " ( newspaper ) . Later he became editor in chief of the newly launched national sports magazine " Der Illustrierte Boxring " . After just six months he managed to increase the circulation to more than 50,000 copies . In May 1949 the British , French and US occupation zones of Germany were conflated and relaunched as the US-sponsored West Germany . In October 1949 the Soviet occupation zone was relaunched as the Soviet-sponsored East Germany . In the heart of East Germany , Berlin continued to be divided up into the zones of occupation agreed between the victorious governments back in 1945 . It was around 1950 that Richard Baier moved back t0 Berlin and took a job as a radio reporter with the American Sector Radio Service ( '' " Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor " '' / RIAS ) . The RIAS had been set up in the US sector of Berlin in 1946 after the " allies " had failed to reach agreement on control over Berlin 's existing Radio service , which had ended up in the eastern part of the city , which was Soviet occupation zone . The RIAS transmitter was sufficiently powerful to enable its broadcasts to be heard across virtually the whole of what was becoming known as East Germany . That would become a source of constant friction between the East and the West in the context of the emerging Cold War
in 1945
Potsdam Conference
Richard Baier