Catalogue question 193 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01

From 1961 to 1989, Berlin was …

Why — for every option

  1. A — Both East and West Berlin had their own mayors during this period, with a Governing Mayor in the western part.
  2. B — Berlin was not an independent state but an occupied, divided city under Allied Four-Power status.
  3. C — Correct: from August 1961 to November 1989, the Berlin Wall separated the eastern from the western part of the city.
  4. D — Only during the 1948/49 blockade was West Berlin exclusively reachable via the airlift — not continuously throughout the entire period of the wall until 1989, when regular transit routes existed.

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