West Berlin

Khrushchev called West Berlin "a bone in the throat" of the socialist world, and considered its removal a prime goal of his interactions with the West.

AmericanHeritage.com 2009

At least 25 shelters like this one were built in what was then called West Berlin, according to our guide, and to say there's an impossible-to-describe horror to them is to risk gross understatement.

The Seattle Times 2009

On that day, the new identity of the city hitherto known as West Berlin was born.

signandsight.com 2009

On that day, the new identity of the city hitherto known as West Berlin was born.

signandsight.com 2009

Saudis could very easily organize a 'West Berlin' for Gaza but they don't. by

Slimy Love 4: In Your Face. A Monologue Of An Angry Jew 2008

And this, I think, gives a new meaning of Bond's lost love: "Vesper Lynd" is a pun on "West Berlin," a signifier of the lost cold war, when things made sense.

The Valve Aaron Bady 2008

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, East Germans flooded West Berlin record shops.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

West Berlin theaters showing Hollywood movies and playing jazz and rock lined the border with East Berlin.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Alarmed by what appeared to be a great number of East Germans crossing the border daily this was before the building of the Berlin Wall, officers of the GDR conducted a study in 1956 and 1957 and found that each day, on average, some twenty-six thousand East Berlin youths attended movies and dances at the West Berlin “border theaters.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Here, a design from Uli Richter's 1958 collection in front of the ruined Gedächtniskirche in West Berlin.

Fashion auf Deutsch 2011