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[@arnothar8035]

10:45 This is the AquaDom Hotel in Berlin. What you see here, is the former aquarium in the lobby of the hotel. One night in December 2022 the glass of the aquarium burst and 1 million liters ( 264172.052 gallons for you) of water together with about 1500 fish poured into the lobby, elevators and the surrounding street. Only about 630 fish could be saved. Whether it was a design flaw or material failure is impossible to say. In May 2023, it was announced that the aquarium would not be rebuilt.

[@ArthurRuno]

Still think Time Travlers make the aquarium burst on purpose to prevent an accident on opening times. That there was no human life lost in this, doesnt make sense to me otherwise. So yeah Time Travlers are upon us! :D

[@NephritduGrey]

@@ArthurRuno Wouldn't they simply have stopped it being built in the first place though? :3

[@ArthurRuno]

@@NephritduGrey You dont know what this place made possible. Maybe some people had their first date somwhere there, the baby resulting from it might cure cancer. So they couldnt stop the build of it all along without messing big times with that time line :D Time Travel must be super complicated

[@NephritduGrey]

@@ArthurRuno Given that moving backwards or forwards in time would be a bit complicated as Earth doesn't stay in one play AND the universe is expanding any time traveler would need not only a device to move through time but also space as well, making it indeed a tad bit complicated.

[@videomailYT]

^^ well that's easy, Delorian and Flux compensator and done XD 😉🥳🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Fun fact: Berlin is not only a city, but a Bundesland (state) as well! :)

[@videomailYT]

^^ same like Bremen or Hamburg 😉🤫

[@Anson_AKB]

@@videomailYT the state of Bremen consists of two cities (one is bremen, the other the port city of bremen) but is considered to be a single city state like B and HH.

[@videomailYT]

@@Anson_AKB ^^ schon ne Weile her, dass ich in Bremerhaven war... 🤔

[@AlexGys9]

Fun fact: in the DDR-museum there is a car typical of those days: the Trabant. People used to say this car was made out of ... wait for it ... cardboard. However, that is not true. The chassis was steel and the bodywork was Duroplast (highly pressed cotton and resin, reinforced with fiberglass).

[@DJone4one]

3:44 WHAT? That is not a MALL! That is our Government Building. There sitting the Bundesregierung (Statesgovernment). You can go and visit the Dome. I think there's even a restaurant up there.

[@Alexander9er]

This is not the Government building. It is the parliament. The Chancellor and his ministers who form the government are in face of the Reichstag in the Kanzleramt.

[@markusschafer4895]

Actually the Reichstag is not the seat of the government, but of the parliament 😉

[@Muck006]

It is also SHIT ... well ... the "dome thing" ... because it changes / warps the architecture as opposed to the original dome.

[@Muck006]

5:00 We also have a SECOND "Zoo" ... the "Tierpark" in the eastern part of the city ... then there is an extensive Botanical Garden and lots of forest to see animals in the wild. [There are sometimes "invasions" by hordes of wild boar ... and trash pandas are also annoying.]

[@soreiche]

The both most famous exhibits of the Museumsinsel aren't even mentioned: The Pergamon-Altar and the Ischtar-Tor.

[@hoodyniszwangsjacke3190]

But the Ishtar-door was shown for a short moment in the movie.

[@haukegebhardt3378]

you transport the building inside the buildiung, very easy.

[@dannyf359]

Whole berlin is history every district has his memorial and his church and berlin is a very nice city to visit you're very welcome to visit berlin

[@soewenue]

Because everyone is spitting fun facts i will do it as well. Berlin has more Bridges than venice and tiergarten is bigger than the central Park.

[@Muck006]

More bridges than Venice isnt hard ... because Berlin is huge compared to Venice and has a bunch of rivers and canals.

[@ralfdeibel2759]

Berlin is even better today than it was 10 years ago. Plus, Berlin definitely has the best nightlife in Europe.

[@Muck006]

No it isnt ... because lots of things get torn down and lots of money was wasted on a silly airport, just because the "party mayor" and his bureaucrats couldnt do proper bookkeeping. There are also far too many non-Berliners in the city ... since 1990 ... starting with the awful bureaucrats from Bonn and the "party people". We also have far too many communists still in the city ... AntiFa was created and tested here with the help of the STASI and the ideologues in education AND SUB-CULTURE that supported this evil group are still there.

[@scottevil4531]

On your question at the end. It can be that nice. But that depends on which part you visit at which time. The parks, lakes and woods f.e. arent as vibrant in winter or late fall, while the places look best during specific festivals, like the Festival of Light or Christmas Markets and the riversites are best during summer. So I wouldnt say they dont look as good, but depending on what kind of experience you are searching for you have to chose the time and the spot for an optimal experience.

[@IchBinNichtDa]

The Reichstag is not a Mall its the german Parlerment xD

[@henningbartels6245]

The Reichstag is not the German parliament, it houses the German parliament: the Bundestag - to be precise. The Reichstag is the building - the Bundestag is the institution.

[@dannymarc3438]

Poor AquaDome fishes 😓 Some of the fishes could be saved. Now they have a new home in Berlin Aquarium. Berlin has surely some problems but at the same time so many beautiful and interesting places.

[@Anson_AKB]

Berlin has an area of almost 900 square kilometers (345 square miles). 6.7% of it is water area and 18.4% are forest. and then there are many parks, and even fields inside city limits. before 1990, the old west had around 2.2 million people and the east 1.1 million, causing the current relatively low population density of only 4100 per square km (10700 per sq mi; new york 3 times more: 29k/sqmi, 11k/sqkm) nowadays. without these high percentages of nature west berlin might not have survived being an isolated island for almost three decades. the entire city has almost the same city limits as it got in 1920 when the original city and many surrounding cities and villages (including all those forests, lakes and rivers) were joined to create "great-berlin". most of these old village centers (almost one hundred!) still exist today and it would take quite some time to visit all of those distinct old villages while staying inside one single city.

[@m.h.6470]

Unfortunately the "Checkpoint Charly" museum is VERY touristy and overhyped. It is absolutely not worth it IMHO.

[@Muck006]

You can just watch a documentary about it instead of going there.

[@sanron420]

Live in Berlin since my birth, it is a really nice ciry, which has so many things from so so many different cultures to offer. no matter, what you are looking for, in berlin you will most likely have a shop or a restaurant for it. Also you have a ton of museums, parks and architecture through the whole city and as long as it works, the puplic transport is one of the best imo. One of the interesting parts is the citys diversity, depending on where you are you get a whole different feeling, you have these super modern places like Potsdamer Platz but also you have these old looking places like the Hackischen Höfe. Also like shown in the video you have super much nature. On of my biggest suggestions is the teufelsberg at the west of the city, the mountain isn't especially high, but it is just high enough, that you get a super nice view onto the whole city. And if you are in Berlin you have to try a Döner Kebap and a Curry Wurst.

[@Muck006]

The "diversity" is also part of the problem ... and by that I mean the "diversity advocates", i.e. AntiFa, who are actually communists and thus evil. Certain other parts of the "diversity" also has them going to the "Gutshof Britz" and stab the animals there "just for tun" ... because that's what they do in their own country. This is a problem, because they are kinda rare races and not easily replaced.

[@theorganguy]

just to let you know, that the roof of the church you liked is not the roof of the church with the blue-tile-glass walls, but yet another church

[@walkir2662]

There's also an old GDR prison (Berlin Hohenschönhausen) turned into a museum of how political prisoners were treated. It's very informative, not fun, and not very popular for reminding people of what the GDR did.

[@that.is.a.9411]

Great video 🎉

[@karinland8533]

German down towns are the Altstadt and you will never find skyscrapers there. Frankfurt am Main is the only exeption

[@Muck006]

A very ugly exception ...

[@aepfelchenapfelbaum9536]

Min. 8:50 ... this are ancient buildings which have been moved from Arabia to the Museum Island in Berlin

[@Muck006]

Persia isnt arabia.

[@Maxicraft.]

you gotta visit the Pergamon museum when visiting berlin. It has a anchient gate from the city of baybylon

[@Muck006]

IIRC that is CLOSED for the next 15 years due to renovation.

[@henningbartels6245]

@@Muck006 yes there is renovation work going on. Though certain pieces of art are exhibited in other place in the meantime. Some parts of the museum will be reopened in 3 years (the part with the ancient temple in the video) - though unfortunatly the south wing - home of the famous Babylon city gates - will be finish in 13 years.

[@balex55lp]

ah yes Air Football, i played that with other kids when we didnt have a real football at hand 🥳

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

The Reichstag building is our coverment building, it includes the parliament, or the Bundestag. But I must say, Politicans sometimes act like Fish marked trader.

[@conjunctivius8552]

Check out the Schlangenbader Strasse, it will blow your mind😂😂😂 I grew up there❤

[@nightcorelore5648]

The poor aquarium man…

[@publicminx]

I think it was already an improvement if at least Germans knew that the far more interesting aspect about the Brandenburg Gate is that you are basically standing in front of the 2500 years old main gate to the Acropolis (= High city)/Parthenon Temple in Athens - at the time of Pericles. Thats why it has exactly the size it has. The Brandenburg Gate also represents the Propylaia (first court entrance). Worldwide are only two other examples in Greece (one is the known one in Athens) but they are in a worse shape than this replica. The Brandenburg Gate also served like the role model as real main gate to the city (from once 18 city gates). If one knows that then one can look at it with different eyes and imaginations!

[@BR618]

7:01 should be an ad hoc version of bossaball, a Spanish game from the mid 00s ^^

[@theorganguy]

nope. This game is called Footbag Net and played with a Footbag - more commonly known by its brand name of "Hacky Sack"

[@JG-GJ]

Great city and the night life is a completly different world

[@halloween3325]

Ja, Berlin ist echt schön aber es gibt natürlich auch die nicht so schönen Seiten :)

[@Muck006]

Das Regierungsviertel mit seinen Einwohnern ... und all die übriggebliebenen Kommunisten, die immer noch ihre zerstörerische Ideologie verbreiten (versteckt als "AntiFa" und BLM usw.).

[@MW-mg3qf]

Da bin ich ganz bei Dir. Das gibt es aber in jeder großen Stadt der Welt. Meiner Meinung nach ( ich bin sogenannter waschechter Berliner in 3. Generation ) gibt es aber deutlich mehr schöne Ecken als weniger schöne, aber ich bin zugegebenermaßen sehr Subjektiv.

[@hy-drenalin8211]

You know some german? I´m so proud of you! No joke...😀

[@eprohoda]

how’ss everything going?! fantastic , later,React!

[@anashiedler6926]

You should also check out Vienna in Austria, another great city with lots of greenery, parks, and even a stream (danube)

[@haukegebhardt3378]

the aqarium is burst 1 year ago sorry

[@einwitzigenname585]

😂 sugarcoat as sugarcoat can 😂 But, ok, all this exist. Well, the Aquarium broke and caused a lot of shit. And, well, the GDR Museum retires. And the Museum Island is under cobstruction most of the time. But in general: yes, Berlin has a lot of green areas. There are living quartiers in a huge diversity, the ugly ones, too. Just come over and have a look by yourself. If you imagine a smaller and cosier version of NYC, you may be prepared better than with this video.

[@Muck006]

Sugarcoat and "let's focus on WE WERE BAD GUYS in the war and FEEL ASHAMED" ...

[@miztazed]

Man alot of learn you still to have. American: "Is this the mall?" No man this is the Reichstag our German government building like the white house in Washington. Hahaha ...And the Aqurium colapsed last year and 1 Million Liters of water flow out the lobby of this Hotel on the street. 1500 fishes died.

[@tigeriussvarne177]

Euch zwei sieht man auch in fast jeder Kommentarspalte. ;D

[@kilsestoffel3690]

​@@tigeriussvarne177 du versteckst dich aber auch nicht gerade 😀

[@karinland8533]

@@arnodobler1096ja

[@juwen7908]

Yes, you should go to the zoos!!! You're in Germany and if we couuld believe what YT told me, with over 400 zoos, Germany is the country with the most zoos in the entire world. From big ones to very tiny ones, we've got them all. And at least Berlin has two of them, because of the seperation. So don't just go to the Zoologische Garten, please also visit the Tierpark in the east of Berlin. Both worth it❣️

[@hghgh1019]

Is this a image video? You Dont see anymuch of berlin here watch some Videos about DW when you really want to learn"

[@Muck006]

You dont live in Berlin then ... maybe you should visit.

[@Muck006]

4:00 That memorial is ... s.h.i.t.e. ... because HOW DOES A BLOCK "commemorate" ANYTHING? You NEED an instruction manual to know what this waste of space is for ... they SHOULD HAVE built something better than that!

[@nfzed]

You‘ll have to wait to become president. You need to be at least 40 to be elected

[@TheHighkingEmperor]

i life in germany and i say berlin is ugly when you want to visit germany go to hamburg and the miniutur wunderland

[@publicminx]

Berlin is actually also a water city (after Hamburg most bridges in the world - but in difference to Hamburg also some Islands) with many rivers, masses of lakes, inland harbors, many channels (also some city spots like 'New Venice' and 'little Venice' - which are in difference to their names rather more like Grachten in the Netherlands with small houses at each side (but more trees) and only explorable by boat).

[@Muck006]

There used to be (no idea if it is still in operation) a "pleasure boat" in the shape of a big whale.