West Berlin
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| Founded | 1949 |
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| Status | Allied-occupied Germany |
| Today part of | Germany |
| Historical era | Cold War |
| Official_languages | German |
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| ID | 2337244 |
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
... 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
... 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
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Berlin Wall anniversary: Merkel warns democracy is not 'self-evident'
... 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'
... 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
... West Berlin was an island surrounded by Communist East Germany...
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... 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 former German parliament building sat on the border between East and West Berlin...
Berlin Wall anniversary: Merkel warns democracy is not 'self-evident'
People placed roses on a remaining portion of the Berlin Wall during a ceremony on Saturday
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against taking democracy for granted, at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall 's fall.
"No wall That keeps people out and restricts Freedom is so high. . That it cannot be broken down," she added.
The Wall had separated Soviet-controlled East Berlin and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War .
Its Fall In 1989 was seen as a victory for liberal democracy, and led to Germany's reunification a year later.
However, Mrs Merkel warned on Saturday That "the values on which Europe is founded - Freedom , democracy, equality, rule of law, Human Rights - they are anything but self-evident and they have to be revitalised and defended time and Time Again ".
"We stand stripped of any excuses and are required to do our part of Freedom and democracy," she added in a ceremony at the Berlin Wall memorial.
There has been a rise in the far-right in many European countries, while the governments of EU countries such as Poland and Hungary have been accused of undermining the rule of law.
The Berlin Wall fell during the revolutions of 1989 in central and Eastern Europe , in which several Soviet-imposed communist regimes were toppled following protests and political movements.
Speaking on Saturday, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid tribute to Germany's neighbours, saying: "Without the courage of The Will to Freedom of the Poles and Hungarians, the Czechs and Slovaks, the peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe and Germany's reunification would not have been possible. "
However, he added That "liberal democracy is being challenged and questioned", while Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said: "Power is shifting away from Europe, authoritarian models are on The Rise , the United States is increasingly looking Inwards ".
The Presidents of Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic attended The CeremonyUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was not at The Ceremony , but visited Berlin earlier This Week .
During a speech on Friday, he warned That "Freedom is never guaranteed".
He criticised the Human Rights records of the Russian and Chinese governments, and said: "Today, authoritarianism is Once Again rising. "
Saturday was also The Anniversary of the Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass - When thousands of Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses were attacked in Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938.
About 200 people joined a far-right protest in Bielefeld in northwest Germany in support of a Holocaust denier, while thousands of anti-fascist and left-wing groups held a counter protest,
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Source of news: bbc.com
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