“The country is torn apart,” Schaefer continued the next day, and his voice returned to its chronicling evenness. “Torn apart. The Red Army is stationed all across East and Central Germany. Breslau is the Russian zone. Berlin too. The West is occupied by the French and the British. And between them,” he traced a finger through the air, drawing an invisible line, “between the Elbe and the Weser — neutral territory. The gray zone”
