East vs West Germany . For a young kid today, there is only Germany, a powerful country in Europe. He may have heard about east and West Germany, but that only through history books as the two parts of Germany existed separately for 45 years from 1945 till 1990, when the Berlin wall, the physical border of the two Germanys, was brought down, and the two united again.

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