The metal Glienicke Bridge (Glienicker Br? cke) across the Havel River in Potsdam appeared to replace the wooden one in 1907. In 1945, it was destroyed by German troops retreating under the onslaught of the Red Army. After the war, the bridge was restored and ended up on the border of the GDR and three parts of the German capital, which the USSR transferred to its allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, from which West Berlin was later formed. There were exchanges of intelligence officers and dissidents discovered and convicted on different sides of the border, for which the bridge received the name "spy" in the media.→