Cold war east germany map. Crossing the inner german border remained possible throughout the cold war. The post war agreements on the governance of berlin specified that the western allies were to have access to the city via defined air road rail and river links. The regime was supported by a strong and extensive secret police the ministry of state security popularly known as the stasi. Closed 25 years ago the now abandoned forbidden city is a time capsule of recent history.
East germany officially the german democratic republic gdr. Nato the warsaw pact and the superpowers. It was never entirely sealed in the fashion of the border between the two koreas though there were severe restrictions on the movement of east german citizens. Dresden 520000 heavily damaged in ww2.
Three zones were agreed on each covering roughly a third of germany. East germany had an area of 41828 sq mi 108333 km2 a little larger than south korea. The inner german border originated from plans by the allies of world war ii to divide a defeated germany into occupation zones. Deutsche demokratische republik dte demokate epublik ddr was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990 the period when the eastern portion of germany was part of the eastern bloc during the cold warcommonly described as a communist state in english usage it described itself as a socialist.
Berlin capital hauptstadt 1200000. Dresden has become the economic political and. The major cities and population in 1988. Since the fall of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany in 1989 sites associated with the 40 year long cold war and the division of the country into west and east germany have become relics.
East germany had its own army considered to be the most advanced among the warsaw pact countries given that it was at the cold war frontline. Leipzig 556000 site of the 1989 monday demonstrations. At the height of the cold war wuensdorf in east germany was home to a vast soviet military complex. On november 10 1958.
A british zone in the. Their boundaries were drawn along the territorial boundaries of 19th century german states and provinces that had largely disappeared with the unification of germany in 1871.
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