 The Soviet-supported state of East Germany (GDR) was set up at the same time, and despite Allied objections, East Berlin was made its capital.For many years, the United States did not recognize East Berlin as the capital of the GDR, asserting that a reunified Berlin should only be the capital of a reunified Germany, thus the embassy in the temporary West German capital in the small college town of Bonn.However, in lieu of an embassy, the U.S. State Department had a presence in West Berlin called "U.S. Mission Berlin" (also sometimes referred to with the acronym USBER).