For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for a bridge in Germany where the US and the Soviet Union once swapped their captured secret agents. The answer is the Glienicke Bridge, which spans the Havel River in Germany. The World’s David Leveille tells us more about this Cold War ‘bridge of spies.’
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