Re:On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing bette...
by jacquesm on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:09PM
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> but east/west was due to the Berlin Wall--
No, East-West was because of the border running North-South through Germany intersecting with the main motorway from Hannover to Berlin at Helmstedt.
The Berlin Wall was an interior division separating two parts of Berlin, 'West Berlin' and 'East Berlin', but to get to West Berlin by road you had to cross through a large chunk of East Germany first, and then you'd enter West-Berlin through yet another border crossing. The road from Helmstedt to West-Berlin was known as the 'corridor'.
West Berlin was best thought of as an island within East Germany with the Berlin wall circling West Berlin.
No, East-West was because of the border running North-South through Germany intersecting with the main motorway from Hannover to Berlin at Helmstedt.
The Berlin Wall was an interior division separating two parts of Berlin, 'West Berlin' and 'East Berlin', but to get to West Berlin by road you had to cross through a large chunk of East Germany first, and then you'd enter West-Berlin through yet another border crossing. The road from Helmstedt to West-Berlin was known as the 'corridor'.
West Berlin was best thought of as an island within East Germany with the Berlin wall circling West Berlin.