Mean Eyed Matt
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From the WIKi I posted above:Good point, my bad. But Borchert still had to move. So their new address was no longer pre war W.8., but Berlin W as in West Berlin. Or maybe again the W just being a postal designation without a number.
W.8 is the old postal code established in 1862 which divided the postal districts according to cardinal points (C, E, SO, S, SW, W, NW, N, NO) - the number further subdivided these into small districts. These designations continued to exist after the war until the introduction of 4-digit postal codes in the 1960s (West Berlin 1962, East Berlin 1965). The designation W on the post-war hat therefore still refers to the old postal district, not 'West Berlin'. But I can't say why the number might have been dropped - I'll keep thinking about it...
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