The Berlin Wall was not as long as the inner German border.
Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border -LRB- IGB -RRB- , which demarcated the border between East and West Germany , it came to symbolize a physical marker of the `` Iron Curtain '' that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War .	Inner German border	Inner German border	Eastern Bloc	Eastern Bloc	West Germany	West Germany	Iron Curtain	Iron Curtain	Cold War	Cold War
