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Apr 27, 2022 · Learn how Germany was divided into four occupation zones by the Allies after World War II, and how the Cold War led to a permanent split between East and West Germany. Find out how Berlin became a flashpoint of the conflict and a symbol of resistance.
- Dave Roos
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4 days ago · To stop the exodus of its population, the East German government, with the full consent of the Soviets, erected the Berlin Wall, isolating West from East Berlin. West Berlin, then literally an island within the surrounding GDR, became the symbol of Western freedom.
West Berlin was now a de facto part of West Germany, but with a unique legal status, while East Berlin remained part of East Germany. Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie. The western sectors of Berlin were now completely separated from the surrounding territory of East Berlin and East Germany.
Dec 15, 2009 · The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the Communist government of East Germany to prevent people from escaping to West Berlin and West Germany. It stood until 1989, when it was torn down after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On 3 October 1990—the day Germany was officially reunified—East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin, which then joined the enlarged Federal Republic as a city-state along the lines of the existing West German city-states of Bremen and Hamburg.
4 days ago · The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany. Berlin’s former glory ended in 1945, but the city survived the destruction of World War II.
Nov 24, 2009 · Learn how East Germany sealed off East Berlin from West Berlin in 1961, cutting off access between the two halves of the city. Find out how the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the Cold War and its fall led to German reunification.
