Over the decades the Berlin Wall stood, about 140 people were killed trying to cross it. Not great but still, not what you would think listening to US propaganda. For example, in the movie Bridge of Spies which only came out a few years ago, Tom Hanks is in a train going from West Berlin to East Berlin (or vice versa, don't remember). In the 3-4 seconds the train crosses over the wall, he just happens to see someone trying to cross and get shot. Now the odds that Hanks would see one of maybe 4 or 5 people shot that year at the wall... probably better odds of getting struck by lightning. But the way the movie portrays it, you end up thinking it must be like a normal thing.
Talking bout Trams, the local tram company was split in east and west afer WW2 for obvious reasons, but they kept servicing the same lines and also crossed the border (because no iron curtain then).
This stopped in 1950 as the eastern division employed female drivers and the western division was not okay with this, so the lines stopped at the border, you switched to an identical train on the identical line and then went on.
And then the west started dismantling tram lines so now west-berlin as 3 and east-berlin has 19.
Over the decades the Berlin Wall stood, about 140 people were killed trying to cross it. Not great but still, not what you would think listening to US propaganda. For example, in the movie Bridge of Spies which only came out a few years ago, Tom Hanks is in a train going from West Berlin to East Berlin (or vice versa, don't remember). In the 3-4 seconds the train crosses over the wall, he just happens to see someone trying to cross and get shot. Now the odds that Hanks would see one of maybe 4 or 5 people shot that year at the wall... probably better odds of getting struck by lightning. But the way the movie portrays it, you end up thinking it must be like a normal thing.
Talking bout Trams, the local tram company was split in east and west afer WW2 for obvious reasons, but they kept servicing the same lines and also crossed the border (because no iron curtain then).
This stopped in 1950 as the eastern division employed female drivers and the western division was not okay with this, so the lines stopped at the border, you switched to an identical train on the identical line and then went on.
And then the west started dismantling tram lines so now west-berlin as 3 and east-berlin has 19.