: All windows in the clinic buildings that faced the West were bricked over to prevent escape and visual contact with West Berliners.
The season highlights how the hospital, once open to all of Berlin, became an isolated "island" where medical advancement was both a point of pride for the GDR and a tool for political control. The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961 - Office of the Historian : All windows in the clinic buildings that
: A real-life pediatrician and neonatologist who faced persecution under the Nazis and later became a pioneer in the GDR's healthcare system. once open to all of Berlin