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East & West Germany Map: Berlin Wall Border Division. Map by European Views. The map above shows the division of Germany. For many decades, the country was divided into two: East and West Germany. The two were separated through an impassable border named the Iron Curtain.
The inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch–deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990.
In 1952, East Germany began policing its Western border to stop the flight of engineers, scientists and doctors to West Germany. Interestingly, the border within Berlin wasn’t as tightly...
East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland, [ˈɔstˌdɔʏtʃlant] ⓘ), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] ⓘ, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
See a map of Germany in 1960 - where the front line between East and West in the Cold War divides the country into two.
30 years after the German reunion, there are still boundaries separating East and West Germany, although those are no political borders anymore.
East Germany re-established the federated states on its soil and subsequently dissolved itself on 3 October 1990; also on the same day, modern Germany was formed when the new states joined the FRG while East and West Berlin were united into a single city.
For purposes of occupation, the Americans, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into four zones. The American, British, and French zones together made up the western two-thirds of Germany, while the Soviet zone comprised the eastern third.
A map showing East Germany (orange) and its neighbouring states. East Germany was a socialist nation, formed in 1949 following the division of Germany into two parts. It was, in many respects, the epicentre of the Cold War – a border zone where the Soviet bloc and the West abutted, and a proving ground for socialist economic policies.
Reunification of Germany. Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria threw off Communist rule shortly after East Germany, marking the effective end of the Cold War. On October 3, 1990, East and West Germany were reunited after 45 years of division. About this map. Download map (without labels)