Actually, it was larger than one would have expected given the idea that East Germany being assigned to the USSR was technically 1/4 of the Four Power Agreement that created sectors of influence in Germany after the war. read more
East Germany was smaller than west Germany because it didn't include the whole Soviet occupation area. The area in red was East Germany, but the Soviet occupation area included the areas in yellow and the Polish flags also. read more
Regardless of what your work is, you get paid the same as a janitor. This created waves of people sneaking into west Berlin. West Germany was capitalist and democratic at that, people could be heard. West Germany had capitalism and a hierarchy, that means people have something to work for. read more
At that time East Germany was still heavily polluting, and heavily reliant on coal. Today, eastern Germany is the heart of the country's renewable energy transformation. But viewed from space, the historic differences still define Berlin's nightly appearance. Data reveal further cleavages between east and west. read more