East Berlin

between Two Economies When the prominent Indian economist B. R. Shenoy visited Berlin in 1960, he witnessed two completely differing parts of the same city (Shenoy). A wall divided Berlin into two separate areas, West Berlin and East Berlin. West Berlin, a capitalist economy, boomed with economic freedom and prosperity. While East Berlin, a command economy, verged on economic collapse. The example of West and East Berlin demonstrates that a capitalist economy, also known as a free market economy, is

After 28 long years of separation, the border between East Germany and West Germany finally opened on November 9, as an announcement was made by the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party which permitted citizens to cross between the two countries. Over 2 million East Berliners participated in the destruction of the Berlin Wall, as a celebration of the end of the long-lasting division (Berlin Wall). The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) could not match the United States and NATO

separating East and West Berlin was built. It prevented people from the Soviet zone of Berlin to go to the American, French, and British controlled-part of Berlin (after World War II, the capital of Germany was divided into territories for Allied Powers). The wall showed how both sides had different economies, different cultural beliefs, contrasting political views. Also, the wall separated families from each other for years until the wall was taken down on November 9, 1989. The Berlin Wall symbolized

Assess the significance of the Berlin Wall as a physical symbol of the political, social and economic repression in East Germany, particularly East Berlin The Berlin Wall was a tangible physical symbol of escalating Cold War tensions between the democratic West and communist Eastern bloc, and its construction facilitated repressive political, social and economic impacts in East Berlin. On 13 August 1961, the Berlin Wall was suddenly sealed overnight separating the Soviet-occupied eastern sector

and Soviet Union had agreed on the zones. The Allied Powers occupied west Germany, while the Soviet Union ruled east Germany. Also, the capital of Germany, Berlin lied in the center of east Germany so they divided that into four zones.Later on, France and the United Kingdom gave their territories in Berlin to the United States, which also later on becomes known as East Berlin and West Berlin.

The Berlin wall had a highly significant impact on the economic, social and political relations between West and East Europe. It stood from 1961-1989 as a physical reminder of that divide, a daily reminder of the divide that still influences the nation today, and a physical barrier in which 138 East Germans died trying to cross. So dire was the Berlin Wall that Heinrich Albertz, an aide to West Berlin Mayor, compared it to as if; “They are cutting up a city, cutting into living flesh without anesthesia”

of citizens of East Berlin. The wall was put up by Walter Ulbricht, forcing East Berliners to live under communist rule. Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall separated the communist nation from the rest of society. Friends and families were divided by the wall, prompting thousands of escape attempts that left at least a hundred people dead. Eventually, in 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, two years after President Ronald Reagan demanded it. For twenty eight years the freedom of East Berliners was encircled

Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve had an immense interest in learning about the past, more specifically, the past of my very own ancestors. This interest was what pushed me to start learning German when I was eleven years old. With every year and every German class we learned about sentence structure, verb conjugation, and most importantly, I was introduced to German authors. But, in all of my years of learning German and reading different works, I was never introduced to any German authors

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, by Joseph Roth is a book of letters or rather essays that holds recordings of lethal and brutal events taken in Germany. Roth was an Austrian writer. His style and form of writing revealed his political and psychological complexity of his thoughts of such country. He writes with precision and reaches a wide spectrum of bitterness to irony, from happy to sad. His writing leads you to his views and observations over the years of passed over and pushed aside people and

through a number of cataclysmic, and paradigm shifting changes. One of the longest lasting changes to Germany was the division of Germany into two separate nations, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). These two nations were the results of a fundamental difference in political ideals of two of the great nation at the time, the United States of American, and the Soviet Union. Throughout the life spans of these two nations one of the largest