West Berlin (deu)

West Berlin

West Berlin ranks 270th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Richmond, Virginia, Augsburg, and Magdeburg. The most famous people from West Berlin are Nastassja Kinski, Pierre Littbarski, and Guido Buchwald. The most famous people who died in West Berlin are Max von Laue, Ernst Ruska, and George Grosz. West Berlin has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many painters, and actors. West Berlin is located in Germany.

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. Read more on Wikipedia