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West Berlin (German: Berlin (West) or West-Berlin, German pronunciation: [ˈvɛstbɛʁˌliːn] ⓘ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
West Berlin, the western part of the German city of Berlin, which, until the reunification of Germany in 1990, was treated as a city and Land (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), though it was not constitutionally part of that country.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 15, 2009 · The existence of West Berlin, a conspicuously capitalist city deep within communist East Germany, “stuck like a bone in the Soviet throat,” as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev put it. The Russians...
Isolated by the Cold War and divided by the wall that shaped life in the city until its fall in 1989, Berlin turned in on itself for four decades, looking back to its louche but rich Weimar past and reveling in a cynical present of spies, government subsidies, and anarchic activism.
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Living in a Divided City: West-Berlin. Memorial sites and monuments. From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided the city, with its western part completely surrounded by the Wall. The result was a historical oddity, a city with a special political status that resulted in a very unique way of life.
West Berlin, then literally an island within the surrounding GDR, became the symbol of Western freedom. Generous cultural and economic subsidies and the exemption of its citizens from West German conscription made West Berlin a centre of artistic experimentation and political dissent.
A wealthy city, West Berlin was noted for its distinctly cosmopolitan character, and as a centre of education, research and culture. With about two million inhabitants, West Berlin had the largest population of any city in Germany during the Cold War era.