A forgotten piece of Berlin Wall

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Жыл бұрын

A small piece of the Berlin Wall was hidden in the shrubs for years. Until 2018, when a hobby historian posted it on his blog.
In Berlin Schönholz you can find this unique piece of 80 meters long wall of the first generation.
IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THIS LOCATION: Please be aware that circumstances and regulations can change. I do not take any responsibility for any losses, damages or injuries.
Book tips:
• The Berlin Wall: Remains of a lost border - Bennet Schulte (amzn.to/3q9DM4v)
• The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 - Frederick Taylor (amzn.to/3ox3Gys)
• Spuren der Berliner Mauer - Leo Schmidt & Axel Klausmeier (amzn.to/3OwRY1A)
• Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall - Anna Funder (amzn.to/3ZHjts3)
Sources:
• Blog of Christian Bormann, who discovered the fragment: pankowerchronikdotde.wordpres...
• Map: www.Berlin.de Landesdenkmalamt
• Picture Berliner Mauer Schönholz 1980 - Von Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
• www.boxenstopp-schoenholz.de

Пікірлер: 34

@Hongaars1969 Жыл бұрын

Love your presentations. Since subscribing to your channel I realise that a return journey to Berlin is long overdue AND I’ll need a minimum of a month long stay just to try see everything you’ve posted in your videos.

@meem6635 Ай бұрын

Another great video, congratulations!

@Williamk492 11 ай бұрын

My father is (originally) from Gößnitz, close,to Altenburg. Your channel is amazing! It’s nice to see that a Dutch (or Flemish?) person has a channel about the DDR. Subscribed 👍🏻

@BG-wm2tw 10 ай бұрын

He is actually from Congo.

@petermitchelmore2592 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. I thought that I knew Berlin very well, although I have never heard of this part of the wall.

@user-qj5sc5oy7f 10 ай бұрын

Mam, you're a legend! Thanks for talking about these artefacts! 👍

@Canarywharfdebz Жыл бұрын

Absolutely loving your channel! I have visited Berlin three times. First time in the eighties when I had the opportunity to visit the old DDR! My next visit I will specifically visit certain places. I went with my daughter in February and it was only for two nights. It was so strange walking around Alexanderplatz and Karl-Marx-Allee.

@eastgermanyinvestigated 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience! It certainly must have been a weird feeling being back at the same location under completely different circumstances.

@gudbo Ай бұрын

Finaly im going to Berlin this weekend to see this with my own eyes

@poissonpuerile8897 Жыл бұрын

What a great find! I find it sad and shortsighted that the BRD tore down virtually every last bit of the wall. That's very uncharacteristic for them. I'd have expected, say, a couple dozen 50m or 100m sections to have been left standing to remind people of history.

@AndrewW Жыл бұрын

Your videos are really great. Interflug has some great history as well as Intershops.

@eastgermanyinvestigated Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Andrew. And thanks for the interesting suggestions as well!

@1joshjosh1 10 ай бұрын

I'm binge watching your Channel

@vwozone 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying your videos - super well-produced and informative. Would love to see more content covering remaining relics from the communist era - particularly monuments/place names which still survive and how that came to be the case - I find it fascinating that some aspects of that time have been completely erased but others were left intact. Thanks for making such great content and please keep going!

@evelk5233 Жыл бұрын

Great as usual and I bet you could get a short out of it too

@efnissien 10 ай бұрын

I recently visited Berlin, and it was a bit weird walking down Invalidenstrasse. And seeing areas I recognized from pre-unification (although I did get a slight satisfied feeling wiping dogshit off my boot onto Reinhard Heydrich's grave site at Invalidenfriedhof - something that was once impossible as it was once in the death zone.)

@Ballebek01 10 ай бұрын

Close to Checkpoint Bravo there are also parts of the wall that are forgotten in the woods. Also some parts of the old highway (that was replaced in the 60's) towards Berlin from there have remains. Or at least last time I checked10 years ago.

@-haclong2366 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if he kept it secret for so long because he was afraid that people would destroy it.

@Hansaman58 Жыл бұрын

Sehr intressant

@TheYizuman Жыл бұрын

I got a question, after the fall of the wall, were there suicides from various GDR politicians and or leaders. What of those that served with the NVA? I am aware of the high suicide rates from within East Germany, but I am just curious of how many suicides there were after the fall of the wall, especially from those that were very involved with the DDR, military and non-military alike. I tried googling about that subject and there seems to be very little information regarding that subject.

@eastgermanyinvestigated Жыл бұрын

I am not aware of suicide of GDR politicians after the wall fell, however, there are a number of sad cases of Stasi employees and SED-officials. Maybe there is someone else who can help you with a more accurate answer.

@cthoadmin7458 12 күн бұрын

Well, there is the very sad case of the GDR Border Guard Konrad Schumann. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Schumann not really a politician but essentially rejected by his community after going back to the East once the wall came down.