Residents of the GDR and East Berlin are now only allowed to cross with special permission.

德意志民主共和国和东柏林的居民只有持有特殊通行证才允许出境。 轻轨停止运营…

The street runs through the Kreuzberg neighborhood in the former West and the Mitte district in former East Berlin and was bissected by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.

这条街穿过Kreuzberg，紧邻前西德，是前东柏林的中心区，在冷战中被柏林墙截成两段。

Throughout the day, as confrontation loomed, the Leipzig party secretaries tried in vain to elicit new instructions from East Berlin party headquarters.

整整一天，由于对抗一触即发，莱比锡市党书记试图从东柏林党的总部那里得到新的指令，但却是白费力气。