The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

Episode 166. After the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Germany was left without a government. The Allies decided to split Germany, and its capital Berlin, into 4 sections: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States would take West Germany and West Berlin. The Soviet Union would have control over East Germany and East Berlin. In the midst of the Cold War, the USSR built a wall along the split of Berlin, creating a partition that would keep citizens trapped. Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss how the people of Berlin were separated and reunited after three decades.    Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  [email protected]   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Find us on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory    Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory   Sources “Berlin Wall” by history.com editors (Dec 15 2009, updated May 14 2026) https://www.history.com/articles/berlin-wall   “The Berlin Wall”  https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall   “The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall”  https://diplomacy.state.gov/berlin-wall/   “The GDR - what life was like for people in East Germany from 1949 to 1990” by Anne Fischer (Apr 03 2025) https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/culture/gdr-east-germany   “Berlin Wall”  https://www.visitberlin.de/en/berlin-wall   “Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world” (Nov 4 2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048   “I was a teenager in East Germany when the Wall fell. Today we are still divided” by Sabine Rennefanz (Nov 6 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/06/berlin-wall-germany-unification-far-right   Sound Credits: Sound Effect by u_uy2kad5rlq from Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/nature-crickets-395138/   https://pixabay.com/music/solo-piano-38-nighttime-i-449846/   Music by LemonMusicLab from Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/music/mystery-dark-ambient-soundscape-505384/   Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-footsteps-on-a-street-69587/   Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/household-footsteps-3-69539/