A New Look at a DIVIDED CITY - John R Schroeder - May 1984

John R Schroeder

Berlin is an enigma, a paradox. Berlin is a conundrum of ironies. Berlin is the Jerusalem of central Europe in terms of controversy. Berlin is all this and more. For Berlin is a city that used to be one city and now has been divided into two separate cities belonging to two different countries. The enigmas and ironies of Berlin go on and on. Surrounded on all sides by the German Democratic Republic (the G.D.R.), West Berlin is an island of capitalism in the midst of a country of socialism. West Berlin is, in some ways, a part of West Germany. But it is effectively separated from the Federal Republic by 100 miles of East German territory. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library