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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. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was ...
1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing, attack carried out on April 5, 1986, in West Berlin, in which Libyan agents detonated a bomb at the La Belle discotheque, a nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during the Cold War. The bomb, packed with plastic explosives and shrapnel, killed two American soldiers and a Turkish woman ...
Living in a Divided City: West-Berlin. From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided the city, with its western part completely surrounded by the Wall. The result was a historical oddity, a city with a special political status that resulted in a very unique way of life. The name alone is problematic, at least in German: officially, it was known as ...
In West Berlin, Bowie and Pop were able to distance themselves from British and American presumptions about the content and style of popular music. Caught between addiction and clarity, they made music that echoed the city’s world-weary self-regard, creating a thin, alienated sound given extra emptiness on Bowie’s records by a third collaborator, Brian Eno .
4 days ago · Berlin - Divided City, Cold War, Reunification: Greater Berlin was created in 1920 by fusing 7 districts, 59 country communities, and 27 landed estates into a single association. Twenty resultant districts (now 12) became integral parts of metropolitan Berlin but still remained largely autonomous. At the end of World War II the Soviet Union took eight of Berlin’s districts as its sector of occupation. What was called the New West End, developed after old Berlin had outgrown its space ...
West Berlin was the name of the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It was the American, British, and French occupied sectors that were created in 1945. In many ways it was integrated (joined) with West Germany, but it was not a part of West Germany or East Germany. The Soviet sector became East Berlin, which East Germany claimed as ...
West Berlin was a politically and geographically isolated area during the Cold War, serving as a free city surrounded by East Germany. It became a symbol of the division between East and West, representing the democratic West in contrast to the communist East. This unique status was significant in the context of the Berlin Wall's construction and the daily lives of its residents.
