On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948 ... reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into ...

Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between America and the West, against Russia. Berlin was ...