And contrary to many people’s imagination, the wall did not run north south through all of Germany. ‘West Berlin’ was just the west half of Berlin, controlled by the West (ie not the ussr like the rest of Germany ) and it was like an island surrounded by east Germany. The wall itself was mostly just across the city north/south but with barbed wire mined death zones elsewhere. The West had to fly supplies in initially, feeding the 2 million there with a peak of one flight every 45s for nearly a year.
Yep! The Berlin Airlift, just to be clear for anyone reading (not saying you were implying otherwise), was before the Berlin Wall was built.
And while the Berlin Wall did not run across the East/West German border as a whole, the border was quite gruesome by similar (though less explicitly wall-like) means.
And contrary to many people’s imagination, the wall did not run north south through all of Germany. ‘West Berlin’ was just the west half of Berlin, controlled by the West (ie not the ussr like the rest of Germany ) and it was like an island surrounded by east Germany. The wall itself was mostly just across the city north/south but with barbed wire mined death zones elsewhere. The West had to fly supplies in initially, feeding the 2 million there with a peak of one flight every 45s for nearly a year.
Yep! The Berlin Airlift, just to be clear for anyone reading (not saying you were implying otherwise), was before the Berlin Wall was built.
And while the Berlin Wall did not run across the East/West German border as a whole, the border was quite gruesome by similar (though less explicitly wall-like) means.