On 02/01/2012 12:19, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 01.01.2012 22:23, schrieb Wolfgang Schwanke:
Upsides of the communist era:

you forgot the quotes around "communist".
No

Wrong -- see quoted above your original text. There are no quotes around
"communist".


The rest of the lines within Westberlin were actually closed down
for profitability reasons, if you want to employ that word. The GDR
did
not want to subsidise public transit in another country, a country
which was very hostile to the govenment which subsidised the S-Bahn in
Westberlin.

Oh they did want to do that for much of the time, once they even
claimed the railway lines in West Berlin were East German territory.

The GDR did never have to claim that. This was a fact created by the
occupation statues.

When Schumacher and other West German politicians diveded the county and
Berlin itself, they carefully avoided to challenge the occupation regime
and had kept the Berlin Generaldirektion of the Reichsbahn (or how that
was called) intact.

But somehow they'd lost interest after the employees demanded more
money. So instead of paying more they shut the system down.

Well, that was part of the process. If the Westberlin Senate had offered
their subsidies to the Reichsbahn to operate a proper S-Bahn network,
like they subsidised the U-Bahn in the West, then the Reichsbahn would
certainly have wanted to keep it up, and maybe even expand it. But the
Westberlin rules did the opposite: they did everything to destroy the
S-Bahn network, waging a big campaign against using the S-Bahn and
building U-Bahn lines to directly draw passengers off from the S-Bahn
(e.g. U7 to Spandau).

I know, in the times of Orwellian doublespeak it is difficult to
recognize facts. But you should make an effort.



Cheers,
L.W.

Where were the people who worked on the Berlin S-Bahn in West Berlin
from during the city's partition?

I understand that actual train drivers were East German, but what about
station attendants and track workers

No politics, just asking purely out of curiosity.