Going to East Berlin 8 June 1990

[@fritzhieke7209]

I want back to this year

[@SpatzVomAlexanderplatz]

Thank you for sharing this pretty cool video... ...I grew up at the borough Marzahn, you filmed starting at 7:03 ... At these time it was a district full of grey towers and construction works... ...today, Marzahn and Hellersdorf are modern and green parts of Berlins City. But I also like remembering at these time... ...was a kind of special atmosphere :)

[@stimmviech]

I just accidentally discovered your channel.I came to Berlin around 1991,your footage is great,many thanks.

[@michaszuty5035]

It brings back memories. I came to West Berlin in summer of 1988 as 9 year old kid, when everything was still going the old way. First impression was the Friedrichstrasse border crossing with cameras everywhere and armed to the teeth soldiers. Pretty creepy for a small kid.... Second thing was the great contrast when we finally reached West Berlin. It was like the other planet!

[@piercehawke8021]

What you described is living proof that Communism is a hypocritical political system, due to it offering the bigwigs all sorts of special perks; which drives home that equality between the different socioeconomic groups is anything but.

[@marcovonhaberkorn]

@@piercehawke8021 Capitalista Vulgaris.

[@kenlompart9905]

@@piercehawke8021 It's been said many times, communism only works on paper.

[@HikikomoriDev]

Invaluable footage ! Thank you for sharing !

[@toml.1408]

I visited Berlin for 3-days in December of 1990. The wall was 100% gone and I had full access to what was once east Berlin. I paid a small fee and went to the top of the giant radio/TV tower in the east. My map of Berlin only had about 10% of the streets of the east. I quickly walked through the Brandenburg Gate, that was closed for major renovation. I had watched all the events of 1989 on the news, and I was very happy there was a peaceful ending of the Wall. My experience in Berlin was very favorable and I hope to go back some day.

[@steve94044]

I saw a video yesterday of the Stasi in DDR and one of the agents disclosed many of the ways they monitored the people both in the east and the west. He stated that the other countries use the same methods they used including monitoring the telephone calls in and out of the telco central offices. This was disclosed some years ago by an at&t worker in the US.

[@dissdad8744]

Classical method. Also they install monitoring equipment into all the main global internet hubs, such as the transatlantic telecommunications cable, to monitor the entire traffic.

[@nicklaus1878]

Heute vor genau 33 Jahren ist dieses Video entstanden 😳 Damals noch mit groooßer Handkamera 📽

[@FrauMays]

Awesome! So glad you uploaded these!

[@ziegenhagenm]

so am I. when recorded these there was no intention of creating a time document but so that my ex-Berliner mother in Canada could see what was going on.

[@helenasommerwind]

Toll, mit dem Tränenpalast von Innen. Das ist super. Bin dreimal von Ost nach West und natürlich zurück . Nun kann ich mich wieder erinnern wie es war, Damals in der DDR 😊

[@gdd29]

Thanks for sharing this valuable record of that time. I was there too in the '90s. I guess so much have changed there in the city of Berlin today which is good, but I kind of miss old Berlin, both W & E. I don't know why.

[@ziegenhagenm]

samuel colt At the time I was recording only to send to my mother, a born Berliner who lived in Canada. But judging from the feedback, I'm glad I kept the tapes, digitized them and posted. I know when I came back about 10 years ago for a month I could hardly identify with the "new" Berlin

[@aislingmichaelaoneill1028]

Manfred Ziegenhagen It’s the same everywhere…

[@AS-bc9qd]

@@aislingmichaelaoneill1028 No. Of course most of the buildings which stood 30 years ago still stand there, but the vibe is not the same anymore.

[@d.pan83]

@Manfred Ziegenhagen: at time code 18:27 of video, is it "Berlin-Lichtenberg" Station? (Sorry for my English)

[@SpielbaerLP]

Yes i grew up a little more to the east in Marzahn around that time, used to travel with my parents from that station to my grandparents and i can remember the center piece on the plattform that is a little hard to see here. If i would have to bet i would say Lichtenberg.

[@acid823]

The initial border crossing is oberbaumbrücke

[@d.pan83]

At 8:25, what did he say "Zugfertigmeldung"-man?

[@SpielbaerLP]

He said "Ahrensfelde Zurückbleiben" Ahrensfelde being the final station of the line basically the direction (has not changed since then). Zurückbleiben means stay back (from the soon to be departing train).

[@BenDover-wk1bs]

Cool video.

[@d.pan83]

@Manfred Ziegnhagen: in your videos there is a voice-over that speaks in American English. Is that you?

[@kriscucumber]

you soon know when youre in the east, trabants galore

[@HatchMediaWorks]

look at all those trabants

[@maikfranz-xaver1234]

Maybe use a stablizing tool for this video and reupload? Awesome footage needs to be viewed in a better way without getting headaches. Just a thought, there are a number of tools out there doing this.

[@ziegenhagenm]

although that brings advantages, i've decided to leave my recordings as originally recorded.

[@maikfranz-xaver1234]

Guter punkt, ich kann das auch selber machen.. Danke für deine schnelle Antwort!

[@ziegenhagenm]

viel spass

[@Berlin_No.1]

Das ist die S75 nach Ahrensfelde über Ostkreuz, Lichtenberg, Marzahn usw. Im prinzip sieht es da heute immernoch genauso aus. Die analoge Aufnahme allerdings, lässt das alles noch viel trostloser erscheinen.

[@thomaslaube8260]

Trostlos, mostlos. So schlimm war es nun auch nicht.

[@Berlin_No.1]

@@thomaslaube8260 inzwischen geht's

[@robfriedrich2822]

4:00 Nöldnerplatz

[@ck-od5pp]

Schöne Tristesse.

[@poodtang2104]

From what I heard East Germany was virtually bankrupt.

[@piercehawke8021]

And what really did East Germany in was when Mikhail Gorbachev told Honecker, its leader that they were on their own. In other word was that the Soviet military basically were onlookers, nothing more.

[@aron-aya-1964]

3sat: Es noch Rundgang durch die Base aber die NVA Parade wieder ersetzt.

[@francesbommel7940]

Heute lebe ich im Osten zwischen Blümchen und Tapeten. Danke, sehr interessant... allerdings sieht es jetzt viiieeel besser aus

[@KurtCHose-qb9jp]

Frances Bommel frei nach Didi Hallervorden: das ist allein ihre Meinung...

[@simsonoldtimer]

Frances Bommel alles eine Frage des Blickwinkels

[@robertanderson4917]

Kamera gerade halten! 😂

[@ag-gw4ow]

Love DDR

[@25Hesekiel17]

Dear Manfred, I would be interested to use your footage in a documentary I am working on. Could you get in touch with me? You find my contact on my KZbin profile. All the best from Berlin