Catalogue question 193 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01
From 1961 to 1989, Berlin was …
- without a mayor.
- an independent state.
- divided by a wall. Correct
- reachable only by plane.
Why — for every option
- A — Both East and West Berlin had their own mayors during this period, with a Governing Mayor in the western part.
- B — Berlin was not an independent state but an occupied, divided city under Allied Four-Power status.
- C — Correct: from August 1961 to November 1989, the Berlin Wall separated the eastern from the western part of the city.
- 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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