Weren't the East Berliners allowed to travel? Couldn't they travel to a neutral country then fly or take a train into West Berlin? Or were they literally cut off from leaving the country at all?
2007-06-16 09:25:44 · 4 answers · asked by ♫ Sweet Honesty ♫ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
they were not allowed to travel outside of the country.
A standard policy in Communist states - you need to obtain permit to leave the country. Which requires an officially sactioned reason to travel, recommendations from CP office at your workplace confirming that you are loyal and orderly citizen and not gonna bad-mouth or embarass your country, some ties to home country (like your family should stay if you're going out of the country). And even then, you travel in a group that is supervised by an intelligence officer.
Also, I hop you know that West Berlin was a walled-in island of capitalism in the middle of Communist East Germany; not the other way around.
2007-06-16 09:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to leave East Berlin, you had to have government permission, which was rarely and very cautiously given. Of course, East German surrounded West Germany. You might be able to go to another COMMUNIST country, but leaving it would be very carefully monitored. Keep in mind East Germany, then so-called Democratic Republic surrounded West Berlin. West Berlin was separated from Federalist Germany (the real democratic country). East Berliners were not allowed to go to West Berlin. Many who tried to scale the fence to do were shot to death.
2007-06-16 16:39:06 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Dr. Glen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally Cut off from leaving Eastern Berlin, but before the Berlin Wall was built people would get across the border in one way or another.
2007-06-16 16:34:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kiwigal247 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were not allowed to travel to any country outside East Germany without a permit.
2007-06-17 00:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋