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West Berlin was a city that existed in the period between the end of the Berlin Blockade on ___MASK50___ May ___MASK94___ to German reunification on 3 October ___MASK74___ as a political enclave surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany . It was east of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors . It consisted of the American , British , and French occupation sectors established in 1945 and shared economic , political , legal , and sporting systems with West Germany , but was not " de jure " part of it . It had a special and unique legal status because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies . East Berlin , " de jure " occupied and administered by the Soviet Union , was the " de facto " capital of East Germany . The Berlin Wall , built in 1961 , physically divided East and West Berlin until it fell in 1989 . The Soviet Occupation Zone (" Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii ", " Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany ") was the area of central Germany occupied by the Soviet Union from ___MASK96___ on , at the end of World War II . On 7 October 1949 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ), which became commonly referred to as East Germany , was established in the Soviet Occupation Zone . The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between ___MASK51___ , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and ___MASK11___ , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . The Potsdam Agreement was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II , United Kingdom , United States , Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , for the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany  referring to the German Reich with its pre - war ___MASK46___ borders including the former eastern territories  and the entire European theatre of War territory . It also included Germany ' s demilitarisation , reparations and the prosecution of war criminals . The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in ___MASK93___ and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . The Oder  Neisse line is the international border between Germany and Poland . It was drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of the Second World War and is primarily delineated along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers in Central Europe , meeting the Baltic Sea to the north , just west of the Polish seaports of Szczecin and winoujcie ( German : " Stettin " and " Swinemünde "). All prewar German territory east of the line and within the ___MASK46___ German boundaries ( 23 . ___MASK36___ % of the former Weimar Republic ) were placed under International Law Administrative status , with most of it being made part of newly - Communist Poland . The small remainder , consisting of the territory surrounding the German city of Königsberg ( now renamed Kaliningrad , in honour of Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin ) in northern East Prussia , was allocated to the Soviet Union ( as Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR , today the Russian Federation ) after the war ( pending the final World War II peace treaty for Germany ). The vast majority of the native German population in these territories fled , or was killed or expelled by force . The Oder  Neisse line marked the border between the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) and Poland from ___MASK81___ to ___MASK74___ . East Germany confirmed the border with Poland in ___MASK81___ , while West Germany , after a period of refusal , finally accepted the border ( with reservations ) in 1970 . In ___MASK74___ the newly reunified Germany and the Republic of Poland signed a treaty recognizing it as their border . The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from ___MASK90___ to ___MASK11___ . A union of multiple subnational republics , its government and economy were highly centralized . The Soviet Union was a one - party federation , governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital . The NOFV - Oberliga is a division at step ___MASK26___ of the German football league system . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , it became the successor of the DDR - Oberliga , and functions today as a 5th division in the former territory of East Germany and the city of Berlin . This league is named after the Nordostdeutscher Fußballverband ( NOFV - North - East German Football Association ) , the regional association of the DFB in the former East German territories . The league is currently split in two groups , north and south , the NOFV - Oberliga Nord and NOFV - Oberliga Süd . A third league , the NOFV - Oberliga Mitte existed from 1991 to 1994 . Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent ___MASK62___ states . With a population of approximately 3 . ___MASK26___ million people , Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union . Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the city ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . The German football league system , or league pyramid , refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for the association football in Germany that in the ___MASK10___  ___MASK38___ season consists of 2 , 235 divisions having 31 , ___MASK68___ teams , in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation . The top three professional levels contain one division each . Below this , the semi - professional and amateur levels have progressively more parallel divisions , which each cover progressively smaller geographic areas . Teams that finish at the top of their division at the end of each season can rise higher in the pyramid , whilst those that finish at the bottom find themselves sinking further down . In theory it is possible for even the lowest local amateur club to rise to the top of the system and become German football champions one day . The number of teams promoted and relegated between the divisions varies , and promotion to the upper levels of the pyramid is usually contingent on meeting additional criteria , especially concerning appropriate facilities and finances . In sports leagues , promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season . The best - ranked team ( s ) in the lower division are " promoted " to the higher division for the next season , and the worst - ranked team ( s ) in the higher division are " relegated " to the lower division for the next season . In some leagues , playoffs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings . This process can continue through several levels of divisions , with teams being exchanged between levels ___MASK33___ and ___MASK56___ , levels ___MASK56___ and 3 , levels 3 and ___MASK92___ , and so on . During the season , teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the " promotion zone ", and those at the bottom are in the " relegation zone " ( or , colloquially , the " drop zone " or " facing the drop "). Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian : " Bramborska ") is one of the sixteen federated states of Germany . It lies in the northeast of the country covering an area of ___MASK47___ , 478 square kilometers and has 2 . 48 million inhabitants . The capital and largest city is Potsdam . Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and city - state Berlin forming a metropolitan area . East Germany , formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR , was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period . From ___MASK94___ to ___MASK74___ , it administered the region of Germany that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II  the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement , bounded on the east by the Oder  Neisse line . The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin , but did not include it ; as a result , West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR . The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet Zone , while the Federal Republic was established in the three western zones . East Germany was a satellite state of the Soviet Union . Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 , and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October ___MASK94___ . Soviet forces , however , remained in the country throughout the Cold War . Until 1989 , the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ), though other parties nominally participated in its alliance organisation , the National Front of Democratic Germany . Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes ___MASK62___ constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . Germany ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . East Berlin existed between ___MASK94___ and ___MASK74___ and consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin established in 1945 . The American , British , and French sectors became West Berlin , strongly associated with West Germany , while East Berlin was the " de facto " capital of East Germany . From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989 , East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall . The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from ___MASK53___ to ___MASK87___ . Constructed by the German Democratic Republic ( GDR , East Germany ), starting on ___MASK19___ August ___MASK53___ , the Wall completely cut off ( by land ) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in ___MASK48___ . Its demolition officially began on ___MASK19___ June ___MASK74___ and was completed in 1992 . The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls , which circumscribed a wide area ( later known as the " death strip ") that contained anti - vehicle trenches , " fakir beds " and other defenses . The Eastern Bloc claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the " will of the people " in building a socialist state in East Germany . In practice , the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post - World War II period . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from ___MASK100___ to ___MASK96___ , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history .