When the wall dividing East and West Berlin into Soviet and Western spheres of influence (respectively) came down in 1989, leading to the reunification of Germany as a single country the following year, a lot changed fairly rapidly, including how the region was governed and how laws were defined and enforced.
Walls of the Mind
When the wall dividing East and West Berlin into Soviet and Western spheres of influence (respectively) came down in 1989, leading to the reunification of Germany as a single country the following year, a lot changed fairly rapidly, including how the region was governed and how laws were defined and enforced.