Considering that Berlin was totally in east Germany how come the west part was consider to be west Germany?

Question

to enter berlin u had to enter east germany first even if u where going to West berlin.I m confused:)

Answer 1

The city of Berlin was about 100 miles inside of East Germany.  You had to pass through a corridor from Check Point Alpha on the border of West Germany and East Germany, pass through and enter West Berlin through Check Point Bravo.  If you wanted to leave West Berlin and enter East Berlin you needed to exit through Check Point Charlie.

Answer 2

With Berlin having been the capital of the "Weimarer Republik", it was agreed to to have all four of the Allies control the city. Therefore the city was actually parted into 4 so called "Sectores", each sector controlled by one of the allied states, much as was all of Germany (the Russians controlling what was former east Germany, the US being in the south, the French in the West and the British in the north). As the disagreements between the four allies rose, Russia decided to close off their part of Germany, including their sector of Berlin, and as this conflict hardened, the rest of the allies grew more determined to keep Germany one state without inner borders, expressing that by absolutely refusing to give over their parts of Berlin, which led to total isolation of West-Berlin sometime in the fifties, I think. Thats when the "Luftbrücke" was, google that.

Than in 1961 Russia totally sealed off the borders of East Germany from the rest of Germany, making it illegal to travel out of east Germany into west germany without having gotten written permission by the russian afficials. To close the loophole, they errected the wall along the borders of their sector in Berlin. So Berlin was basically under siege until 1989. Politics from all over the world refused to accept two Germanys for a long time, always pointing to Berlin as a huge  injustice and fortifying West-Berlin to show they were not having this kind of behavior from Russia and were siding with West-Germany.

Got it? ;))

Answer 3

Berlin never was a part of east Germany, as the Americans wouldn't have allowed that. But Berlin was split in two halves by the wall: The east belonged to the Soviets, the west belonged to the Federal Republic of Germany. And, yes, it was really frightening to drive through east Germany (as a western citizen) on their Autobahns, as you weren't allowed to leave the Autobahn not even to walk around a bush to pee; you might have been arrested. That's why most people took a plane. I took a car all the same, just to try, and peed onto a socialist shrub near the A9, but it scared the h**l out of me when I saw a GDR police car approaching. I jumped in and hit the gas.

Answer 4

hello......go back to history class......the city was split in half by the russians  (who overrun this county and make up 70 percent of its poverty and crime..but thats another story)  you did not have to enter the east to get to the west depending on the check point.   for example checkpoint charlie was actually at that time to go back and forth either way but was right on where the wall was built.....

Answer 5

The best way it was described to me is that West Berlin was an island.  The Western part of Berlin (the American, British and French parts) were encompassed by the East.  Berlin was in East Germany, but part of Berlin was like an island in a sea.

It was not, as commonly misunderstood, split right down the middle by a wall.  The wall enclosed the West however, ironically, the West was free and the East was "imprisoned".

Answer 6

dont look at ot geographically, but politically:

democratic germany was west germany, the east was the communist part. part of berlin remained under US control and was not given up to the russians. since it therefore belonged to west germany politically, it was also called west berlin

hope this helped :)