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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.
Satellite image of Berlin, with the Wall's location marked in yellow West and East Berlin borders overlaying a current road map The Berlin Wall ( German : Berliner Mauer , pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German ...
Nevertheless, after the war rebuilding started quickly, and when Berlin was separated into East and West Berlin, the Kurfürstendamm became the leading commercial street of West Berlin in its Wirtschaftswunder days. For that reason, too, John F. Kennedy's tour of West Berlin on June 26, 1963, included a portion of it. [13]
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the Western Allies' name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), [1] becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.
Teufelsberg (German: [ˈtɔʏfl̩sbɛʁk] ⓘ; German for Devil's Hill) is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin.It rises about 80 metres (260 ft) above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres (394 ft) above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest.
In 1920, Spandau (whose name had been changed from Spandow in 1878) was incorporated into Greater Berlin as a borough. During World War II, Spandau was the location of a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, mostly for Polish and Hungarian women. [5] After World War II, it was part of the British sector of West Berlin.
The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of the inner German border. On 9 November 1989, the East German government announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and the inner German border.
When construction of the Berlin Wall began in the night of 13 August 1961, it was closed because the line led to West Berlin on both sides. Shortly after reunification in the GDR, from 22 December 1989 until the summer of 1990, the station functioned as a temporary border crossing. To the north of Rosenthaler Platz is the Weinbergspark.