Due to its geographical location, allowing for the shortest land route between West Germany and West Berlin, most transit traffic to and from West Berlin used this crossing. Most travel routes from West Germany to East Germany and Poland also used this crossing. The border crossing existed from 1945 to 1990 and interrupted the Bundesautobahn 2.

02/10/2020 · Thirty years after the border between East and West Germany ceased to exist by the stroke of a pen on Oct. 3, 1990, it remains one of the most important psychological dividers in …

East German border installations. It took us more than two hours to pass the border. An East German “Grenzer”, a member of the infamous “Grenztruppen” (border guards) entered our bus and checked all our passports and compared the pictures in them with our faces. This took forever and was clearly intended to intimidate us.

11/09/2020 · The Federal Republic of Germany, usually known as West Germany, was a congressional democracy with a capitalist economic system, free religion, and labor unions. The German Democratic Republic, known as East Germany, was the communist-socialist republic that retained it within the Soviet sphere of control.

07/11/2019 · At 18, Tautz had spent his entire life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He knew that the inner German border that separated East from West, communism from democracy, was notoriously ...

01/10/2010 · 1 October 2010. 07:32 CEST. Nearly 30 years ago, a hobby photographer set out to photograph the entire border between East and West Germany. Six years ago he resumed the project, snapping the same ...