Name: 鐵幕為何仍讓德國分裂？ (Why the Iron Curtain Still Keeps Germany Divided)
Uploaded: 2026-01-22T17:21:39.000Z
Duration: 40 min 6 s

Near the end Of February in 2025, Germany hosted what has perhaps become their most historically significant federal election since the reunification of the country in the early 1990s.

在 2025 年 2 月底，德國舉辦了一場選舉，這可能是自 1990 年代初期國家統一以來，德國歷史上最重要的聯邦選舉。

情態副詞

The previously governing Center Left party, the SPD, suffered its worst electoral defeat in Germany's history since the time of Otto von Bismarck back in 1887.

過去執政的中間偏左政黨 SPD，遭遇了自 1887 年奧託·馮·俾斯麥時代以來，德國歷史上最慘烈的選舉失利。

基礎被動語態

While a clear political divide emerged across the country, seen in electoral maps like this one, the eastern regions of Germany were colored in the bright blue of a relatively new political party called the Alternative for Germany, better known by its German langu initials, the AfD, a party that was only founded a little over a decade ago, in 2013 that is now most often associated with the far right that has also been linked to neo Nazis.

雖然全國出現了明顯的政治分歧，從像這樣的選舉地圖可以看出，德國東部地區被一個相對較新的政黨「德國選項黨」（AfD）的亮藍色所覆蓋，這個政黨成立於十年前的 2013 年，現在最常被認為是極右派，也曾與新納粹分子有關聯。

The AfD's blue in the east contrasted sharply with the black of the Christian Democratic Union's victory across the west, one of Germany's other more traditional parties, that is more center right on the political spectrum.

AfD 在東部的藍色與基督教民主聯盟（CDU）在西部獲勝的黑色形成了鮮明對比，CDU 是德國另一個較傳統的政黨，在政治光譜上屬於中間偏右。

And almost immediately, it cannot help but be noticed that the border within Germany between where the AFD dominated in the east and where the CDU dominated in the west was followed almost precisely the exact border of the former Iron Curtain that divided the country during the Cold War era, back when West Germany and East Germany were separate countries ruled by competing ideologies for decades between 1949 and 1990.

而且幾乎是立刻就能注意到，德國境內 AfD 在東部佔優勢的邊界，與 CDU 在西部佔優勢的邊界，幾乎完全吻合了冷戰時期劃分國家的前鐵幕邊界，當時東西德是兩個國家，在 1949 年到 1990 年間，由對立的意識形態統治了數十年。

The massive political differences that appeared between the former west and East Germanys in February's election, however, did not just end there.

然而，在 2 月的選舉中，前東西德之間出現的巨大政治差異，並沒有就此結束。

The AFD didn't just win in all of the former states of East Germany, it completely dominated them nationwide.

AfD 不僅贏得了前東德所有邦的選舉，更是在全國範圍內取得了壓倒性的勝利。

The afd won nearly 21% of the total German vote in the election, its best all time record and the highest share of the vote that any far right party in Germany has ever achieved since the era of the Third Reich.

AfD 在這次選舉中贏得了近 21% 的德國總票數，創下了該黨史上最佳紀錄，也是自第三帝國時代以來，極右派政黨在德國獲得的最高得票率。

But in all of the states of the former East Germany, the AFD massively outperformed its nationwide averages.

但在前東德的所有邦中，AfD 的表現遠遠超出了其全國平均水平。

They secured more than 38% of the vote in Thuringia, more than 37% in both Saxony and Saxony Anhalt, 35% in Mecklenburg Vorpommern and 32.5% in Brandenburg, while they only averaged about 18% of the vote in the states of the former West Germany.

他們在圖林根邦獲得了超過 38% 的選票，在薩克森邦和薩克森-安哈特邦都超過了 37%，在梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞邦獲得了 35%，在布蘭登堡邦獲得了 32.5%，而在前西德邦，他們的平均得票率僅約為 18%。

And interestingly, the AFD wasn't the only non traditional populist party that performed exceptionally well in the former east of Germany either.

而且有趣的是，AfD 並不是唯一一個在前東德地區表現特別亮眼的非傳統民粹政黨。

The bsw, a generally far left party that also maintained certain similar positions as the AFD on friendliness towards Russia and opposition towards migration, performed much better in the east than in the west as well.

bsw 是一個普遍被認為是極左派的政黨，它在對俄羅斯的友好態度和反對移民等立場上，與 AfD 有些相似，它在前東德的表現也比前西德好很多。

And taken together, the AfD and the BSW achieved nearly half of all the votes in Thuringia, Saxony Saxony Anhalt and Mecklenburg Vorpimer.

總體來說，AfD 和 bsw 在圖林根邦、薩克森邦、薩克森-安哈特邦和梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞邦，加起來幾乎贏得了過半的選票。

Then there's also the other far left German party, Die Linke, the modern successor party to East Germany's former ruling Communist Party, which, just like the AfD and the BSW, performed significantly better in the former East Germany than it did in the West.

還有另一個極左派的德國政黨 Die Linke，它是東德前執政共產黨的現代繼承者，和 AfD 以及 bsw 一樣，它在前東德的表現也比前西德顯著來得好。

All things considered, the majority of Germans across the former East Germany voted for either far right or far left political parties during this most recent election, and

總結來說，在這次最近的選舉中，前東德的大部分德國人都投票給了極右派或極左派政黨，

rejected Germany's more traditional center parties, which stood in stark contrast to the Germans in the former West Germany, whose majorities continued choosing to vote for the country's more centrist parties and rejected the extremes These clear political differences that you can see on a map between the former east and West Germany in today's Germany, however, are far from the only time that that ghostly BO border between them continues showing up again.

並且拒絕了德國更傳統的中間派政黨。這與前西德的德國人形成了鮮明對比，他們的大多數人繼續選擇投票給國家更中間的政黨，並拒絕極端。然而，今天在德國地圖上可以看到的前東德和前西德之間這些明顯的政治差異，絕非是那道幽靈般的邊界再次出現的唯一一次。

For example, here's a map showing the ratio of younger people in Germany today aged between 25 and 35, where you can clearly see the former border of the Iron Curtain between the east and the West.

例如，這張地圖顯示了德國目前 25 到 35 歲年輕人的比例，你可以清楚地看到前東德和前西德之間的鐵幕邊界。

Here's a map showing the current unemployment rate in Germany that still shows the same east west difference.

這張地圖顯示了德國目前的失業率，仍然顯示出相同的東西差異。

Or how about this map showing disposable income per capita in Germany?

或者這張顯示德國人均可支配所得的地圖呢？

Or this map showing population growth rates in Germany between 1987 and 2019.

或者這張顯示德國 1987 年到 2019 年人口成長率的地圖呢？

Maybe this map that shows the proportion of Germans without a migrant background and related to that this map showing the distribution of Turkish migrants to Germany.

或者這張顯示沒有移民背景的德國人比例的地圖，以及與此相關的顯示土耳其移民在德國分佈的地圖。

And this map showing incidents of anti refugee violence events between 2014 and 2015.

還有這張顯示 2014 年到 2015 年間反難民暴力事件的地圖。

Then there's maps like this one that show where German women earn more than German men.

然後還有像這張顯示德國女性收入高於德國男性在哪裡的地圖。

This map showing where childcare is more commonly practiced.

這張顯示在哪裡托育更普遍的地圖。

This map showing the amount of trash produced per citizen in Germany.

這張顯示德國每位公民產生的垃圾量。

This map showing the differences in religion in modern day Germany.

這張顯示現代德國宗教差異的地圖。

This map showing where all of Germany's most major corporate headquarters are located today.

這張顯示現代德國所有主要企業總部所在地點的地圖。

And this map showing the level of life satisfaction in modern day Germany.

還有這張顯示現代德國生活滿意度水準的地圖。

Even if you look at Berlin tonight from far above, you'll still to this day see a clear divide through the city that precisely follows the path of the Berlin Wall that separated the city for decades between 1961 and 1989, with the former east and West Berlin still using noticeably different light colors.

即使你今晚從高處俯瞰柏林，你至今仍會看到這座城市一道明顯的分界線，精確地沿著將這座城市分隔了數十年（1961 年至 1989 年）的柏林圍牆路徑，前東柏林和西柏林仍然使用明顯不同的燈光顏色。

In truth, no matter the data that you're trying to show on a map of Germany today, you'll pretty much always see the same pattern emerging between the former east and West Germany following the historical Iron Curtain.

事實上，無論你今天想在德國地圖上展示什麼數據，你幾乎總會看到前東德和前西德之間出現相同的模式，沿著歷史上的鐵幕。

And that then begs the question why, after 35 years now, following the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the reunification of Germany in 1990, are east and West Germany still so different and divided today in 2025?

那麼這就引出了問題，為什麼在鐵幕瓦解、德國於 1990 年統一 35 年後的今天，2025 年的德國東西部仍然如此不同且分裂？

And what lessons might that hold for other divided societies that might want to reunify in the world today, like north and South Korea?

這對現今世界上其他可能想要統一的分裂社會，例如南北韓，又有哪些啟示呢？

In order to understand this, it's necessary first to understand how Germany was initially divided between east and west at the conclusion of the Second World War, and

為了理解這一點，我們首先必須瞭解二戰結束時，德國最初是如何劃分為東西部的，

how that began, leading to modern Germany's internal division we still see today.

以及這一切是如何開始，進而導致了我們至今仍能在現代德國看到的內部分裂。

By 1945, at the end of the war, millions of tons of bombs had been dropped by the Allies across German cities.

到了 1945 年戰爭結束時，盟軍已經在德國城市投下了數百萬噸的炸彈。

But the damage done wasn't geographically equal.

但造成的損害在地理上並不均勻。

The cities in what would soon become West Germany, on average, were significantly more damaged than the cities in what would become East Germany, owing to the fact that they were closer in range to British and American bombers for longer.

平均來說，後來成為西德的城市受損程度，遠比後來成為東德的城市嚴重，這是因為它們離英國和美國的轟炸機更近，受到的轟炸時間更長。

With the notable exceptions of some East German cities like Dresden, Magdeburg and Berlin that were significantly destroyed by the war, most of the other cities in what would become East Germany were spared from the level of destruction that was experienced in cities further to the West.

除了德勒斯登、馬格德堡和柏林等一些東德城市在戰爭中遭到嚴重摧毀的顯著例外，後來成為東德的大部分其他城市，都免受了西部城市所經歷的破壞程度。

Thus, after Germany was divided between a Soviet occupation zone in the east and by a Western Allied occupation zone in the west, the Soviet side was actually the one that started with the greater theoretical advantage of being relatively more intact.

是以，在德國被劃分為東部的蘇聯佔領區和西部的西方盟軍佔領區之後，蘇聯一方實際上是從理論上擁有較大優勢的一方，因為相對而言更完整。

And it's perhaps because of that advantage that actually doomed the East.

而或許正是因為這個優勢，反而註定了東部的命運。

You see, because the east of Germany was more intact after the war than the west was, it also meant that there were more spoils to loot and pillage.

你看，因為戰後德國東部比西部更完整，這也意味著有更多的戰利品可以掠奪。

And the Soviets that came to occupy the east were much more in the mood for revenge on the Germans than the Western Allies were.

而進駐東部的蘇聯人，比西方盟國更想向德國人復仇。

Stalin immediately imposed enormous war reparations on the Soviet occupation zone in the east and pursued a much stricter policy of denazification than what would happen in the West.

史達林立即對東部的蘇聯佔領區課徵了巨額的戰爭賠款，並且實施了比西方嚴厲得多的去納粹化政策。

The Soviets confiscated all of the military and state owned industries in the east and appropriated all of the territory's property that had been owned by members of the Nazi Party.

蘇聯人沒收了東部所有軍事和國營產業，並佔有了納粹黨員擁有的所有領土財產。

As a result, the majority of East Germany's heavy industry was directly pillaged by the Soviets as reparations after the war, and

是以，東德大部分的重工業在戰後被蘇聯直接掠奪作為賠款，

was largely hauled back to the Soviet Union itself, which also represented a loss of 20% of East Germany's total production.

並且大部分被運回蘇聯，這也讓東德總產值損失了20%。

Another 40% of East Germany's industrial property was quickly nationalized by the Soviets as well, which left Only the remaining 40% of East Germany's industrial production behind in the hands of private enterprises.

另外，東德有40%的工業財產也被蘇聯迅速國有化，只剩下40%的東德工業產值留在私人企業手中。

In total, between 1946 and 1953, during Stalin's later rule in the Soviet Union, East Germany was made to pay the equivalent of $14 billion in reparations in 1938 constant prices, which is equivalent to an astonishing $313 billion worth of reparations paid to the Soviets in 2025 inflation adjusted dollars.

總計，在1946年至1953年間，也就是史達林統治蘇聯後期，東德被要求支付相當於1938年固定價格的140億美元賠款，相當於以2025年通貨膨脹調整後的美元計算，高達3130億美元的賠款。

West Germany, meanwhile, was made to pay significantly fewer reparations by the Western Allies and was in fact Given more than 19 billion 2025 inflation adjusted dollars worth of direct aid through the United States Marshall Plan immediately after the war to help pay for reconstruction and to kickstart the economy back into gear, aid that the east never received.

同時，西德被西方盟國要求支付的賠款少得多，並且在戰後立即透過美國的馬歇爾計畫獲得了超過190億美元（2025年通貨膨脹調整後）的直接援助，用於支付重建費用和啟動經濟，而東德卻從未獲得過這種援助。

Moreover, West Germany had several geographic advantages going for it over the east as well.

此外，西德在地理上也比東德有幾個優勢。

West Germany had direct geographic access to Western nations like the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and

西德在地理上直接連接荷蘭、比利時和法國等西歐國家，

thus the ability to trade directly with the Western world and by extension with the rest of the world too.

是以能夠直接與西方世界，進而與世界其他地方進行貿易。

While East Germany had access to some navigable internal waterways like the Elbe and the Oder and Vistula rivers, they paled in comparison of scale to the navigable waterways that were found in West Germany, like the Rhine, the Main and the Danube, which all handle orders of magnitude more cargo than the Eastern rivers do.

雖然東德可以利用易北河、奧得河和維斯瓦河等可航行的內陸水道，但與西德相比，其規模相形見絀。西德擁有萊茵河、美因河和多瑙河等水道，這些水道的貨運量遠超東德的河流。

Due to a variety of reasons that are beyond the scope of this video, East Germany, meanwhile, was effectively blocked from trade with most of the west, lacked anywhere near as capable waterways for trade, and

由於各種原因，這些原因超出了本影片的討論範圍，東德實際上被阻止與大部分西方國家進行貿易，其用於貿易的水道能力也遠不如西德，

relied heavily on trade with the rest of the Eastern bloc instead.

是以，它嚴重依賴與東歐集團其他國家的貿易。

By the late 1980s, 2/3 of East Germany's trade was still being conducted entirely with the communist world.

到1980年代末，東德仍有2/3的貿易完全與共產主義世界進行。

Western Germany also just had more natural resources than Eastern Germany did too, especially in hard coal.

西德的自然資源也比東德多，特別是無煙煤。

East Germany is rich in lower quality lignite or soft coal, but

東德富含品質較低的褐煤或軟煤，但

West Germany was richer in higher quality hard coal.

西德則富含品質較高的無煙煤。

That's much better for heating and energy generation than soft coal is.

這對供暖和發電來說，比軟煤要好得多。

After the war, West Germany relied on its own massive hard coal reserves to power their factories and to expand their valuable steel, chemical and manufacturing services, which were vital to rebuilding the country's economy.

戰後，西德依靠自身龐大的無煙煤儲量來為工廠供電，並擴展其寶貴的鋼鐵、化工和製造業服務，這些對重建國家經濟至關重要。

West Germany, through their hard coal reserves, simply possessed a domestic and cost effective energy source for large scale industrial production that wasn't present in the East.

西德透過其無煙煤儲量，擁有一種國內且具成本效益的能源，可用於大規模工業生產，這在東德是沒有的。

West Germany's post war surviving domestic industrial production also wasn't gutted like it was in the east by the Soviets.

西德戰後倖存的國內工業生產也沒有像東德那樣被蘇聯摧毀。

While the West Germans also received billions of dollars in aid to restart their production, that wasn't provided by the Soviets to the East.

雖然西德也獲得了數十億美元的援助來恢復生產，但這並非由蘇聯提供給東德。

Even though West Germany began transitioning away from their coal by the 1960s and the 1970s in favor of natural gas and oil, domestic West German coal was the primary power source that got West Germany quickly back on their feet through the 1950s and helped to kickstart the West German economic miracle.

儘管西德在1960年代和1970年代開始從煤炭轉向天然氣和石油，但國內的西德煤炭是讓西德在1950年代迅速恢復的 प्राथमिक 能源，並幫助啟動了西德的經濟奇蹟。

In 1949, Germany was formally partitioned between two different states as the Soviet and Western occupation zones coalesced into their own nominally independent countries.

1949年，德國正式分裂為兩個不同的國家，蘇聯和西方佔領區合併成各自名義上獨立的國家。

The Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, was established out of the Allied occupation zone in the west as a capitalist market economy that was aligned with the West, While the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was established out of the Soviet occupation zone as a communist one party state with a centrally planned economy that was aligned with the Soviet bloc.

德意志聯邦共和國，或稱西德，是在西方的盟軍佔領區建立的資本主義市場經濟，與西方結盟；而德意志民主共和國，或稱東德，則是在蘇聯佔領區建立的共產主義一黨制國家，擁有與蘇聯集團結盟的中央計劃經濟。

While the city of Berlin itself, despite being surrounded within the Soviet zone, was further divided between a capitalist West Berlin that was ruled directly by the Western allies and an East Berlin that was a part of East Germany for the next 41 years of history until 1990.

儘管柏林市本身被包圍在蘇聯區內，但它進一步劃分為由西方盟國直接統治的資本主義西柏林，以及作為東德一部分的東柏林，這一劃分持續了接下來的41年，直到1990年。

This would be the way that Germany would be politically divided.

East Germany's more inefficient, centrally planned command economy further exacerbated its other inherent economic disadvantages relative to the Western.

東德效率較低、中央計劃的指令經濟，進一步加劇了其相對於西方的其他固有經濟劣勢。

For decades, the allocation of capital, natural resources and labor in the east were all determined by the country's political bureaucracy rather than by the logic of the market, while its harsh system of political repression and its lack of opportunities encouraged mass migration to the west as well.

幾十年來，東德的資本、自然資源和勞動力分配，都是由國家政治官僚決定，而不是由市場邏輯決定，同時其嚴酷的政治壓迫和缺乏機會，也促使大量人口移往西方。

While East Germany never became a hardcore totalitarian state like North Korea did, it was nonetheless still a deeply paranoid authoritarian police state that attempted to crush any and all opposition towards communist rule.

雖然東德不像北韓那樣成為一個極權主義國家，但它仍然是一個充滿偏執的威權警察國家，試圖鎮壓任何反對共產統治的聲音。

East Germany maintained an official policy of state atheism throughout most of its existence.

東德在其大部分存在期間，一直奉行國家無神論的官方政策。

Secularism was heavily promoted by the state.

Overtly religious citizens stood to lose out on employment and education opportunities, while young people were pressured into joining the secular Free German Youth Organization for their social activities rather than the Church.

明顯有宗教信仰的公民在就業和教育機會上會吃虧，而年輕人則被壓力要求加入世俗的德國青年團來進行社交活動，而不是加入教會。

This is all what culminated in the significantly higher degree of irreligious people in East Germany than in the west that can still be seen today, where a significant majority of people in every East German state continue identifying as non religious, compared to only smaller minorities of people who do so in the West.

這一切都導致了東德的無宗教信仰者比例遠高於西方，這種情況至今仍然存在，在每一個東德州，絕大多數人仍然認為自己是無宗教信仰者，相比之下，西方只有少數人是這樣。

East Germany's communist secret police force, best known as the Stasi, also maintained a fascinating and nearly all encompassing surveillance state over the country's population.

東德的共產祕密警察，也就是最為人熟知的史塔西（Stasi），對國家人口維持著一個迷人且幾乎無所不包的監控網絡。

Before modern 21st century technologies, the Stasi operated a vast network of informants and all throughout East Germany to the point where at its peak, it was estimated that roughly one in every six people in the country worked for them as an informant, meaning that virtually everybody in the country was under suspicion by the state.

在21世紀現代科技出現之前，史塔西在東德各地運營著一個龐大的線人網絡，在其巔峰時期，估計全國大約每六個人中就有一個人為他們擔任線人，這意味著幾乎全國的每個人都處於國家的懷疑之下。

Nearly every East German citizen had a file on them that was compiled by the Stasi.

幾乎每一位東德公民的資料都被史塔西（Stasi）建檔。

The organization amassed more than 1 billion pages of files on East Germany's citizens by the late 1980s, many of which contained personal details about the private lives of East German citizens, tracking people's relationships, hobbies and personal conversations.

到1980年代後期，該組織收集了超過10億頁的東德公民資料，其中許多包含東德公民私人生活的個人細節，記錄著人們的關係、興趣和私人談話。

Nearly every aspect of citizens lives was documented and monitored by the Stasi, aided by their secretive planning of surveillance recording bugs into people's private homes, offices, cars and even public spaces.

史塔西監控著公民生活的幾乎每一個面向，他們祕密規劃在人們的私人住宅、辦公室、汽車甚至公共場所安裝監控竊聽器來協助監控。

Due to these factors, migration to the west was a constant problem for East Germany to try and deal with.

由於這些因素，向西方移民一直是東德需要處理的持續問題。

The land border between the east and the west itself was almost immediately sealed sealed by the time of Germany's formal division in 1949.

德國正式分裂成東德和西德的1949年，東西德之間的陸地邊界幾乎立即就被封鎖了。

For decades until 1990, the border here across Germany between East and west was among the most heavily militarized and fortified frontiers anywhere in the world.

在長達數十年直到1990年，德國東西邊界是世界上軍事化和設防最嚴密的邊界之一。

On a comparable scale to the DMZ that still divides the Korean peninsula between north and South.

其規模可與至今仍分隔南北韓的非軍事區（DMZ）相比。

The German frontier was defined by a continuous line of high metal fences and walls, barbed wire, guard towers, anti vehicle ditches, alarms and minefields, and

德國邊界由一連串高聳的金屬圍籬和牆壁、鐵絲網、瞭望塔、反戰車壕、警報系統、雷區組成，

booby traps that was constantly patrolled by around 50 East German border guards with active shoot to kill orders in place for anyone attempting to cross it.

還有陷阱，由約50名東德邊防軍不斷巡邏，他們有對任何試圖越過邊界者格殺勿論的命令。

Nonetheless, following 1949, hundreds of thousands of people continued fleeing or migrating to the west every single year anyway, primarily by taking advantage of the political loophole in Berlin.

然而，1949年之後，每年仍有數十萬人繼續逃亡或移民到西方，主要是利用了柏林的政治漏洞。

If an East German visited the western political enclave of West Berlin that was surrounded deep inside of East Germany, they could secure their free travel to West Germany and avoid trying to escape over the fortified frontier.

如果東德人參觀位於東德境內、被包圍的西柏林政治飛地，他們就能確保自己能自由前往西德，而不用冒險翻越戒備森嚴的邊界。

This early migration out of East Germany to the west included a serious brain drain of highly skilled and trained professionals as well.

這波早期逃往西方的東德移民，也帶走了大量高技術和受過訓練的專業人才，造成了嚴重的腦力流失。

And the problem got so severe for the east and its economy that by 1961 they decided to do something extremely drastic to stop it.

對東德及其經濟來說，這個問題變得非常嚴重，到了1961年，他們決定採取極端措施來阻止這種情況。

Already by that point, more than 2.7 million East Germans had successfully escaped to the west since 1949.

到那時為止，自1949年以來，已經有超過270萬東德人成功逃到西方。

And as a consequence, East Germany's population had rapidly declined by about 1 century 6th in only 12 short years.

結果，東德人口在短短12年內就迅速減少了約六分之一。

Further hammering East Germany's struggling economy and further boosting the west with millions of additional workers and taxpayers.

這進一步打擊了東德艱難的經濟，同時也為西方注入了數百萬額外的勞動力和納稅人。

So in order to stop this bleeding out, the communist East German authorities decided in 1961 to build another wall around the entire perimeter of West Berlin too.

是以，為了阻止這種人才外流，共產黨的東德當局在1961年決定，在西柏林整個周邊地區也建造另一道牆。

This of course became the infamous Berlin Wall.

這當然就成了臭名昭著的柏林圍牆。

A complex series of very visible fortifications, guard towers and death strips constantly patrolled by East German soldier who like the soldiers guarding the frontier with the west, hundreds of miles away, maintained strict shoot to kill orders on anyone attempting to cross it.

這是一系列非常明顯的複雜防禦工事、瞭望塔和死亡地帶，由東德阿兵哥不斷巡邏，他們和數百英里外守衛與西方邊界的阿兵哥一樣，都持有嚴格的格殺勿論命令，對任何試圖越過的人。

The Wall would very publicly divide the city of Berlin for a total of 28 painful years, firmly separating families and friends on either side of it for decades.

這道牆將非常公開地分隔柏林這座城市長達28年痛苦的歲月，數十年來將兩邊的家人和朋友牢牢地分開。