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West Berlin

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Founded1949
StatusAllied-occupied Germany
Today part of Germany
Historical era Cold War
Official_languagesGerman
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About West Berlin


West Berlin was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. There was no specific date on which the sectors of Berlin occupied by the Western Allies became "West Berlin", but 1949 is widely accepted as the year in which the name was adopted.

Berliners rave against the motorway as extension threatens 20 cultural venues

Berliners rave against the motorway as extension threatens 20 cultural venues
Sep 2,2023 8:21 pm

... Building the highway started in West Berlin in 1958, when the city was divided between capitalist West and communist East - initially with the hope that it would one day be a ring road if Berlin was ever reunified...

Ukraine's Zelensky calls on Germany to tear down Russian wall

Ukraine's Zelensky calls on Germany to tear down Russian wall
Mar 17,2022 6:33 pm

... Using another German Cold War analogy, in his speech President Zelensky said that Ukraine needed an airlift, and a no-fly zone to protect it, just as Cold War West Berlin had been saved by the Allied airlift in 1948-49...

Flip Schulke photographer, on the left side of the U. S. civil rights movement of the Berlin wall

Flip Schulke photographer, on the left side of the U. S. civil rights movement of the Berlin wall
Feb 16,2020 8:30 am

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Berlin Wall anniversary: Merkel warns democracy is not 'self-evident'

Berlin Wall anniversary: Merkel warns democracy is not 'self-evident'
Feb 16,2020 8:01 am

... The wall had separated Soviet-controlled East Berlin and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War...

Berlin Wall: 'Germany was first re-united on the dancefloor'

Berlin Wall: 'Germany was first re-united on the dancefloor'
Feb 16,2020 8:00 am

... Previously, West Berliners like him were only able to visit the east with a day pass...

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 transformed the modern world

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 transformed the modern world
Feb 16,2020 7:50 am

... West Berlin was an island surrounded by Communist East Germany...

News Daily: UK 'front of the line' for US trade - and are hands-free sets safe in cars?

News Daily: UK 'front of the line' for US trade - and are hands-free sets safe in cars?
Feb 16,2020 5:16 am

... Read the full paper review Daily Digest £100m extra promised Police disguised as protesters Vaccine passes safety tests The electric car hot-spotIf you see one thing todayIf you listen to one thing todayIf you read one thing todayLookahead09:30 Office for National Statistics announces latest unemployment figures19:45 Celtic play second leg of Champions League qualifier against Romanian side ClujOn this day1961 Troops in East Germany seal the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the route for eastern refugeesFrom elsewhere...

The public art project that entranced post-Cold War Berlin

The public art project that entranced post-Cold War Berlin
Feb 16,2020 3:36 am

... The former German parliament building sat on the border between East and West Berlin...

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