West Berlin
About West Berlin
West Berlin was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, although West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949, was thereafter directly or indirectly represented in its federal institutions, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG.
On the show — 6 mentions total
The Berlin Wall came down by accident. There were negotiations and there was going to be a change of how easily people were allowed to cross, and they had a live television press conference. The guy announcing it mixed his words up, got a bit carried away, said there's lots of changes happening, they're all happening immediately, and then people massed outside the wall.
from No Such Thing As A Millipede Embassy, 2016-01-08 at 00:02:36 · read transcript
Other times West Berlin came up
No, no, no. It sounds like I made that up, didn't it? 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?
NSTAAF International Factball: Germany v Portugal, 2014-06-15 · listen
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.
No Such Thing As A Didgeridoo in a Bar, 2020-09-25 · listen
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