They also don’t show the exact position of the border (the Berlin Wall), never mind the restricted area before the Wall: roads that hadn’t existed since 1961 were still shown on maps of East Berlin in 1989! It’s understandable that the exact location of the border should be obfuscated (makes it harder to plan an escape), but I’ve never understood why restricted or no-longer-existing roads should have been shown on these maps.East German maps generally didn’t show West Berlin (at least rarely in any great detail),.Map-makers notoriously add in deliberate mistakes in order to catch out copycats.I have a pile of GDR maps, printed in the late 1980s, and although we can’t use them as a basis for our own mapping (imagine how hard it would be trying to track down the current copyright holders!), we can at least have a look to see where roads, railways and buildings might need to be backdated.īut just looking at old maps isn’t enough: That’s where my stash of East German maps comes in. Berlin has changed more than most places in the last 25 years!
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