Berlin: Traces of the Former Wall | Discover Germany

[@barondemonrepos]

I visited first time in Berlin 1984. I visited also in East Berlin. The wall was real. I visited again in Berlin 2007. The wall was gone - finally. New Berlin is great.

[@zoomin9397]

i visited berlin as a birthday present and i was so excited to see parts from the wall and leftovers from WW2 there. i know it all was horrible but i am really interested in the history of berlin in the last 100 years.

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

1:37 Very happy to see young people knowing the fruits of socialism/communism

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

@trueman mann My Country was very prosperous from 1945 until 1970, then two socialist presidents came with their progressive reforms during 10 years. 40 years later the Country is still struggling with poverty, violence and corruption produce by those "socialist reforms". I know very well what Socialism is !

[@twjclarke1]

@trueman mann Rather presumptuous of you Trueman! Wow.

[@guynorth3277]

What are you talking about, what an ignorant fool you are.

[@armorer94]

@trueman mann You needn't be shot to know it hurts. The suffering caused by communism is entirely evident. Unless you have an agenda, that is.

[@toddmchaines6844]

Interested in History. Good job @DW!

[@mohamedadammohamed3216]

1968 we went threw check point Charley,that day was The 25th anniversary of the socialist East Germany,the East Germany soldiers and Russian troops entered the bus and pointed the rifle at me and searched my bag fond my karma took the film out and newspapers and magazines to read because the are from Mannheim West Germany,there’s more yet,but this is the story then,I am a Canadian,when I heard The Berlin Wall came down,almost went down myself,story ended.

[@Sanpedranoazul]

How sad was that period :(

[@marinazagrai1623]

You really have no clue...and that's not meant as demeaning. I grew up in a former Communist country, and left when I was 16 for the US and I remember everything! The big wigs in the Central Committee decided 10 yrs before the end of the system that the president had to die (1989). The pigs divided the country's navy and other means if financial gold pots as though they earned these - they stole everything and left the new govts to beg for financial help from the free countries.

[@hebneh]

In the 20th century, the city of Berlin underwent a series of immense changes from the destruction of World War II, followed the construction of the Berlin Wall and the clearings next to it. A really bizarre story, in how dense urban areas that were heavily populated were turned into empty spaces, then built up again.

[@j.s.s9108]

anyone his heart was about to stop when he thought that the woman at 0:58 was about to fall in?

[@dashcamgermany5597]

My hometown is still devided. Part of it lies in Poland and got renamed. Give us back former prussian territories.

[@rjjcms1]

Konigsberg im Ostprussie. It appears to have been quite an idyllic place before the madness of the 30s and 40s which brought it to its tragic fate. I didn't realise it until fairly recently,but Stalin must have played a blinder of a game of hardball at Yalta and Potsdam to get the borders of both the USSR and Poland shifted westwards like that,whether it be for the purpose of merely putting more buffer land between Moscow and the countries to the West or part of a greater game of expansionism,or both. It's said when Russian soldiers saw it they questioned why Germany went to war against them when they had all that already.

[@rivobravo]

I visited East Berlin through checkpoint Charlie on August 1973. At the crossing on the East side we were compelled to buy a certain amount of DDR marks, in the way back eastern guards refused to buy back their marks but suggested to make donation for North Vietnam war efforts. I still vividly remember the memorials of few young people killed in their attempts to cross the wall and some buildings destroyed during the war and yet to be rebuilt. It is an irony or an insult that the current Chancellor at that time was a full supporter of the communist regime and now she occupies the highest position in the country. Hard to believe.

[@sboyle7884]

I visited East Berlin in 1970-a quarter century after the end of the war. There was so little traffic in the streets and you could actually hear the birds chirping. By comparison the western sector was teaming with activity and lots of noise. While the rubble had been cleares, so many buildings had only walls to show where homes once stood. I can still see a very large tree growing in the middle of what once had been a row house. And armed East German soldiers in their guard towers just a few feet from me. And, yes, visitors had to buy 5DM, almost like an admission fee, to get in. But you couldn't keep it and leave with any East German money, so you tried to spend it or donate it.

[@pswitch9553]

0:37 A communist person taking a picture of another communist person in front of a communist wall. Now that's some real communism.

[@glennhertel1165]

Figuring out the Hostage System?

[@Giorg189]

If you want to see a real live 'wall', try Cyprus. Turkey does now what East Germany did back then.

[@armorer94]

I was in Berlin in '81 when the wall was still up. It was a horrible thing. But it has informed my political views ever since.

[@ajrwilde14]

Poor children :(

[@TheRichardSpearman]

An interesting report. The history of Berlin from 1949 - 1961 is rarely covered; the declaration of the West German state, followed by that of the DDR, the 4 power status of Berlin, and the tremendous efforts of the West to underline the DDR and the eastern sector of Berlin. to name but a few.

[@letecmig]

"tremendous efforts of the West to underline the DDR"-you mean that the ´West´ forced 3 millions of East Germans to leave all what they had on the eastern side and walk to West Germany with nothing?

[@glennhertel1165]

I would Love to have seen my Family History There.

[@SuperOldShows]

In Bernaura Strasse almost all of that has been rebuilt as a tourist attraction. 20 years ago there was a short piece of wall and some markets on the wasteland. 10 years ago they started 're-creating' this area. There was no tower there 12 years ago. But hey, make some money from tourists yeah!

[@imagy27]

Nothing wrong with making turist atractions.

[@eckhardtfrost3815]

SuperOldShows It is good that they make money on tourism now,just to show how evil the human race is and was .

[@MultiCombo1]

Nice video though I don't like those English voices talking over people who speak German

[@MultiCombo1]

@Mr and Mrs. Smith evidently

[@tommysoprano1441]

I was in Berlin a few years ago Spent a lot of time at the Berlin wall monuments I found it very interesting

[@gaulbertdsouza1111]

Praise the lord 🙏 Jesus Christ and mother Mary

[@BabajanBar-STHLM]

The apartheid wall on palestinian land is far more advanced......

[@danielvicera9202]

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[@biplobprasad7458]

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[@cooljackster7390]

Nobody comment on this video it’s at 69 comments

[@cooljackster7390]

Mr and Mrs. Smith oh ok it doesn’t matter anyways

[@mariacosta4786]

The wall was moved now to US-MEXICO border.

[@jameshotz1350]

Now the Ruskes have to build a wall around Moscow.

[@Wottymotty]

Must go back up!

[@micksaitlik2693]

Build a euro wall now. .

[@bobbymkd457]

There is a Berlin wall all arround the EU today!