Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany's former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation derived from a network of liberal American occupation officials, and returned emigres, or remigres, of the Marxist Social Democratic Party (SPD). To understand how a determined band of remigres shaped postwar Germany's political culture, the study relies on governmental documents in the United States and Berlin, contemporary radio broadcasts and visual culture, and personal papers of the networks' members. Thus it illuminates how individual political journeys of these expellees during the Nazis' reign of terror predicated their actions in the Cold War. Forced into exile, these refugees radicalized into "revolutionary socialists." However, exposed to New Deal America and disillusioned by Stalinism, these committed anti fascists endorsed liberal democracy and anti-totalitarian convictions during wartime exile in the United States