The Soviet Union answers with the Warsaw Pact. Austria is unified in return for neutrality and limits on military. The FRG is not interested in a deal. The economy of the FRG makes an amazing comeback, but the city of Berlin suffers and needs constant help. Rubble heaps still visible.
City center is largely unrecognizable.
The legal flight of citizens is quickly crushed. Over 1,000 people die in the next 28 years during failed escape attempts. The government of the GDR builds in city center. Student Revolts and the SPD Students protest Vietman War - unstable for business. Younger generation questions the undiscussed past.