East Berlin
About East Berlin
East Berlin was the capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East Berlin. For most of its administrative existence, East Berlin was officially known as Berlin, capital of the GDR by the GDR government. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin.
On the show — 7 mentions total
There was a big clash in East Berlin about updating the traffic light men. The East had particular traffic light men, and they were called Ampelmännchen, which literally means exactly that — the traffic light man.
from No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen, 2020-12-31 at 00:14:56 · read transcript
Other times East Berlin came up
No, no. He was called Adolf Koch. Nominative determinism. It comes back and back. How would you guys tell the difference between East and West Berlin from space? Because the most easterly of the area will be East Berlin. Because of seeing the other space. Oh, we smart. What if you're disoriented in space and you need to like orient yourself? Chris Hadfield took a picture from space and...
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There are a million cars on the road. You will never make it. People did sort of, they just wanted to go and check it out, didn't they? It wasn't just people in East Berlin, just desperate to get to West Berlin, or vice versa. People were desperate to go. With one exception, no, with lots of exceptions, but one famous exception. Angela Merkel was having a sauna when the wall came down.
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