Berlin: Stories of the City — Season 1, Episode 2: The Cold War
Documentary • 50 min • 1 season, 2 episodes
Episode synopsis
After Germany's defeat in the Second World War, Berlin was divided at the historic Potsdam conference in 1945 and its division would become a symbol for the Cold War. The city endured an historic airlift as an island city behind the Iron Curtain. The division would last almost half a century, symbolised by the erecting of the Berlin Wall.
About Berlin: Stories of the City
Berlin, a city that wears its scars, has always welcomed outsiders. But it has also been a battleground invaded by the French, taken over by the Nazis, occupied by the Russians and then divided down the middle by competing ideologies in the Cold War.