From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall.

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as the orchestra for East Berlin, since the Philharmonic was based in West Berlin.

Four autobahns connected West Berlin to West Germany, the most famous being the Berlin Helmstedt autobahn, which entered East German territory between the towns of Helmstedt and Marienborn (Checkpoint Alpha), and which entered West Berlin at Dreilinden (Checkpoint Bravo for the Allied forces) in southwestern Berlin.

Berlin is a symbol of unification between the East and the West.

It is located some west of Berlin and around east of Hanover.

In 1982, with martial law in Poland declared, Lem moved to West Berlin, where he became a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin ( Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin ).

In 1948, following disagreements regarding reconstruction and a new German currency, Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade, preventing food, materials and supplies from arriving in West Berlin.

Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978.

1962 East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany (including West Berlin) from 13 June to 7 July.

West Berlin, while officially not part of the Federal Republic, was largely integrated as a de facto Land .

In December 1925, Horowitz crossed the border into the West, ostensibly to study with Artur Schnabel in Berlin.

The Berlin Wall () was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.

Career in the West On December 18, 1925, Horowitz made his first appearance outside his home country, in Berlin.

Protests turned into riots on 2 June 1967, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, visited West Berlin.

Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, from where they could then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries.

Cold War When the Cold War emerged, the building was physically within West Berlin, but only a few metres from the border of East Berlin, which ran around the back of the building and in 1961 was closed by the Berlin Wall.

Access to West Berlin was also possible by railway (four routes) and by boat for commercial shipping via canals and rivers.

Despite repeated attempts to gain early release, he served his full sentence, most of it at Spandau Prison in West Berlin.

The East German government referred to East Berlin simply as Berlin or often Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR (Berlin, capital of the GDR).

(The Hohenzollern dynasty had ruled the Margraviate of Brandenburg to the west, a German state centred on Berlin, since the 15th century.

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During the division of Berlin, the BVG was split between BVG (West) and BVG (Ost), also known as the Kombinat Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVB).

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The United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries began a massive airlift , supplying West Berlin with food and other supplies.