After the end of World War II, under the conditions of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, the Allied forces occupied West Berlin.

The Soviet Army unit in East Berlin was the 6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.

[2] However, by the mid-1980s, the brigade is recorded to have become part of the BAOR, being its second major component after I (BR) Corps.

[3] In 1946 the military postal address for Berlin based British troops was 'BAOR 2' but when the BFPO indication number was introduced in 1951 to was changed to 'BFPO 45' and remained its address until the British troops were withdrawn from Berlin in 1994.

Finally Berlin Infantry Brigade was officially disbanded in September 1994 and its troops moved to the United Kingdom or British Forces Germany garrisons.