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How the Berlin Wall Worked

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The War in Berlin

Both sides had nukes. So nobody could step up and provoke one another militarily, right? No, I mean, not to that degree. Life was really weird in Berlin, in West Berlin in particular. In East Berlin, it was just part of the rest of East Germany. But again, West Berlin was this little island in East Germany. And they shared an infrastructure. It's a weird thing to do. Like a mail system, trains, it's like, you can't, it's a hard thing to divide a country like that and city within a country.

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