PoliticsExplainer: The Berlin Wall To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoPolitics11/04/2019November 4, 2019For forty years Germany was divided into the Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the German Democratic Republic in the East. The division ended on Oct. 3, 1990, when the two sides were reunified. https://p.dw.com/p/3SSA5Advertisement