West Berlin (deu)

West Berlin

West Berlin ranks 278th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bilbao, England, and Rochester, New York. Memorable people born in West Berlin include Nastassja Kinski, Pierre Littbarski, and Guido Buchwald. Memorable people who died in West Berlin include 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 politicians. 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 lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), despite being entirely surrounded by East Germany (GDR). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. However, West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949 and was thereafter treated as a de facto city-state of that country. After 1949, it was directly or indirectly represented in the institutions of the FRG, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG. Read more on Wikipedia