Article: Germany: Philipp and Eda live in Berlin, a thriving European city that divided East from West during the Cold War. (World).

Today, if you strolled through Germany's capital city of Berlin, you would hardly think that the city had been a battlefield for nearly 40 years. There are few clues to remind you that until a few years ago, a wall divided the city into two hostile sides.

Berlin--like the rest of Germany--was split down the middle into democratic West Germany and Communist East Germany.

How did this happen? At the end of World War II in 1945, Hitler's Germany was defeated and occupied by the Allied Powers--the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Distrust between the three democracies, led by the U.S., and the Soviet Union--the world's most powerful Communist country--grew into ...

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