The Great Escape beneath the Berlin wall (1964)

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[@stalkerentertainment3671]

The crazy thing was that each escape attempt helped in adapting the wall to hinder any future escape attempts but really there were so many other escape stories, some really bold...

[@andershargrave7246]

I kinda enjoy the fact that this wall was even created. Something that Germany really needed at that time

[@wilhelm2462]

@@andershargrave7246 for what was that needed? It was simply a prison because too many people escaped that shithole.

[@pvt.potato1943]

One time a dude stole a tank and drove it through the wall

[@TheRealMarx]

@@wilhelm2462 Don't pay much attention to them they're just a Russian troll

[@caiminmills2667]

@@pvt.potato1943 I believe one guy from Hungary or Austria flew a makeshift plane over the iron curtain and is living in Utah today

[@youngmasterzhi]

You should do a 1961 story of how an East German train engineer literally crashed his locomotive straight through the Berlin Wall, along with his family and 16 other strangers who were in for the ride

[@terminal8531]

Well German engineering is the best in the world.

[@DrHydra47]

1961 was the year it was first built maybe he didnt know about it?

[@eddharriselmedulan6187]

That's a good idea

[@lifefordummies]

There qss also a guy who armored a school bus and escaped woth his family

[@pfw4568]

@@DrHydra47 Wherever you were in germany at that time, you definitly knew about the wall as soon as they started building it.

[@GuhTheBruh]

"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us…" -John F. Kennedy"

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@@qqqalo That is s build to prevent people from entering, not from leaving

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@@qqqalo Have you seen the gangs and cartels that are in Mexico?

[@Ttegegg]

@@mypdf and also probably not the best way to spend money. Probably better ways to mitigate immigrations then just big walls

[@cageybee7221]

try to leave. go ahead, try. the wall is financial, thousands of dollars, i've been trying to leave for years.

[@joelmaynard5590]

@@qqqalo The same wall that was dismantled?

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From the people who used to make these for books. Do they still sell them?

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[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Another succesful escape : a man rented a fancy car, somehow got an uniform of an important Soviet officer, had an accomplice serving as his chauffeur, and just passed Checkpoint Charlie, no one dared asking for his papers on the eastern side.

[@bkan373]

fake lmfao

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*Meet the Spy*

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@@naansoos798 *I am ze spy*

[@charleswest6372]

A real hero.

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[@bogustoast22none25]

Love how at the end they just replay their tunnel drawings with no sound, so all you get to feel are seconds of eerie silence to what was explained as minute, just to get a sense of how it was.

[@eerie5964]

No it was get to 10 minutes on the video to get an extra ad

[@bogustoast22none25]

Ah. Still though, eerie

[@candowe4926]

@@eerie5964 KZbin made it 8 minutes a while back, and also it’s 9 minutes and 59 seconds

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@@eerie5964 capitalism

[@tonypeppermint5329]

@@eerie5964 One second off.

[@brucebelvin2058]

West Berliner: "You smell like scheisse. Did you just escape through tunnel 57?" Escapee: "No I was practicing for the Tokyo Olympics. I'm a pole vaulter."

[@openthinker6562]

“Democracy isn’t perfect, but we have never had to build a wall to keep our people in.” John F. Kennedy, shortly after the wall was built.

[@firefly9838]

Kennedy is in my top 3 favorite presidents

[@bkan373]

not only copied but gringo bs, open thinker says, the one totally lied by the media

[@ps92809]

@@bkan373 gringo bs lol

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@@ps92809 tf does that mean

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@@bkan373 idk but its funny

[@wojszach4443]

For some mysterious reasons communistic countries have more guns on border facing inwards rather than outwards, anyone knows why?

[@cageybee7221]

you just watched a video where armed men dug a tunnel under the wall, and you still ask that?

[@HuyTran-dy3vt]

@@cageybee7221 he was being sarcastic

[@ericsuarez834]

What communist countries you know? Here in the USA we got lots of immigrants escaping their capitalist countries every day

[@wojszach4443]

@@cageybee7221 there is a little thing called rethoric question, you ask question for which answear is obvious

[@wojszach4443]

@@ericsuarez834 entire Warsaw pact, West Taiwan aligned countries, whatever Pol Pot Mugabi or Castro did, there is a lot of evidence to prove how communism is inhumane

[@timg2088]

Excellent! Some of the most dramatic pictures I have ever seen are from East Germans running across the border into West Germany and to FREEDOM, before the Berlin wall was built. Some escaping over the wall before it was completed and some great pics of those who had just escaped. Now staring back across the border at the guards who just tried to kill them just a few seconds before. The famous pic of an East German guard shedding his weapon and his gear as he flees across the border into freedom and into West Germany is my favorite. Staring back across the border at your (now former) co-workers is priceless. The courage the West German border guards displayed in protecting those who ran across the border is often overlooked.

[@nonoman3246]

Imagine this happened in korea, history repeats itself

[@bkan373]

ah yes, freedom, it isnt like in the west the nazis were on the gobernment ay

[@hughmungus1767]

One of the things I remember best about my trip to East and West Berlin in 1983 was all the crosses on the West Berlin side of the Wall commemorating the East Germans who had been killed by their own countrymen while attempting to cross the Wall to freedom. Some of those crosses contained the names of the people who had died and the date they had been killed but many contained only the dates and the German word "Unbekannt" (Unknown). So many people killed and nothing but the date of their deaths was known, even years later because the East Germans had (presumably) refused to identify them even though they must have eventually figured out who had tried to flee. When I returned to a unified Berlin in 1991, I was pleased to see that many of the formerly unknown victims had finally been identified, (presumably) because the East German regime was gone and researchers could determine who had been killed in those incidents. Finally, *most* of the dead had been identified. I'll never forget seeing the proof that people will literally risk their lives to be free because freedom is not just an abstract idea to some people: it is something that some people need to make their lives worth living. I hope I show the same courage and determination if I ever feel I have to flee my country.

[@Nint-km7kd]

I remembered stories of our history teacher from when she attended school. In the 70's when she was a kid, the teachers back then told her that the wall in Berlin was there to stay strong for possibly centuries and wouldn't collapse.

[@ashleyhoggle8784]

Show many anymore

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[@kishascape]

Well she was right, pieces of it are still around in places. Unfortunately the Soviet Union wasn’t as strong and made all of that irrelevant.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@kishascape Well, at the time the Wall came down, the Soviet Union was teetering on collapse. But at time of the Wall's construction, it was a *formidable* potential adversary, even throughout the 1970's, as I remember.

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[@RDSyafriyar]

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[@friendlyman_]

Went to Berlin and got a tour around the Stasi prison there from someone who tried to cross the Berlin wall. Absolutely crazy tactics they used to break people, like driving for 3 hours aimlessly so you didn't know you were still near Berlin, no windows to look out of to tell the time of day or where you were, soundproof 'silent rooms' where they basically tried to drive you mad. If anyone is interested, it was the 'Berlin-Hohenschonhausen' memorial and it's well worth the tour if you can get it.

[@wojszach4443]

then read on Cheka, they made Gestapo look like amateours

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*This is a certified Berlin classic.*

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When you have max walls in your townhall but your enemie spams miners instead

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Rushes town hall just to make max level walls:

[@drivenbyrage5710]

My mother escaped from East Germany around the same time. She never liked to talk about it. My guess is she went through some terrible things as a teenage girl before she finally got out. Now, I wonder if she was one of the ones who used the tunnels to escape. She is 85 with dementia now. I guess I'll never know.

[@kishascape]

You never know. People tend to let things out in dementia.

[@petersuozzo1227]

@@markolysynchuk5264well, your permission had to be printed on an official form, completed in triplicate. ;-)

[@garrisonnichols807]

Ronald Reagan was told by some of his entourage not to mention the wall when he went to the American sector in Berlin. He was at a restaurant and asked a waitress about her feelings about the Berlin wall. She told him a story about escaping years ago and how most of her family was still trapped behind on the other side where she hadn't seen them since. The rest is history.

[@thecheebra7655]

Have you done the story of the family who escaped east germany with a hot air balloon? It's probably the most creative way someone escaped east germany.

[@davidsaville5239]

There was a film made about it

[@pfw4568]

Or the three brothers which all escaped by different means. One swam, one shot a rope across the border from one house over to the other and the third being rescued by the other two by plane. The two brothers even drew a red star under the plane to confuse the east german guards by thinking, those were soviet planes. It all worked out. One of the brothers filmed their rescue action by plane and you can watch the whole thing

[@DerBoss888]

I had a teacher that was a relative of the people that escaped

[@DerBoss888]

With the air balloon

[@anomaly395]

@@pfw4568 Link?

[@peterhuehn6137]

My dad and his family escaped East Germany in 1961. My grandfather told the guard that they were going into the west to go to the zoo and would be back by sun down and they were let through.

[@kishascape]

Yes there were checkpoints and people were frequently allowed in to visit family and out for shopping.

[@Rayitolaser569]

Lmaooo

[@rishav_killerx6011]

Incredible story, didn't knew this also happened during cold war, Loved it ❤️❤️

[@Ttegegg]

History is very weird

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[@anonmouse1481]

Doing the Lord's work.

[@helloimskip]

Since we're talking about Tunnel 57. Please make more animated stories of people attempting many ways to escape the Eastern Bloc. Like the Czech Hijacking.

[@shaneleskinen2111]

Glorious. The ingenuity of the imprisoned and cornered never ceases to amaze.

[@Wil_Dasovich]

This was a good one!

[@CliffCardi]

Did you hear of the 2 Germans who in 1986, built their own windsurfing boards to escape to Denmark via the Baltic Sea?

[@hughmungus1767]

Some years ago, I saw a documentary about some of the attempts to escape East Germany. One unsuccessful attempt that was described really moved me. A young East German couple discovered that they were expecting their first child. Although they had grown up in East Germany and could (grudgingly) tolerate it, they felt passionately that they could not subject their unborn child to that life and started trying to find a way to get across the Wall, which by this time was very highly developed. They had an idea that it might be possible to sneak through a specific forested area and then get over the Wall so they went to this area just to look over the possibilities and risks, not to actually escape on that particular night. As they walked through the forest, the border guards somehow detected them and without a word of warning, opening fire with live ammunition. The man threw his pregnant wife to the ground and lay over her to try to protect her but, sadly, she was already dead. The border guards arrested him and threw him in prison for five years just for being in a restricted area without a pass (you couldn't go closer than 5 km to the Wall unless you had a pass). I was absolutely infuriated - and remain that way to this day - to learn that they actually forced him to pay for the bullets that were used to kill his wife and unborn child. That's how utterly cold-hearted the East German regime was!

[@striker1689]

That's just history...

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

Tunnel 57 was a tunnel under the Berlin Wall that on the 3rd and 4th October 1964 was the location of a mass escape by 57 East Berlin citizens. Student and future astronaut Reinhard Furrer was among the West German escape helpers who assisted the East Berliners in escaping. During the escape, East German border guards came upon the scene. A West German escape helper, Christian Zobel, opened fire, the bullet piercing the lung of young East German guard Egon Schultz, who was then fatally wounded by friendly fire from another guard. This friendly fire was kept secret by the GDR government. Commemorative plaque on the house at Strelitzer Strasse 55, in Berlin Mitte A memorial plaque on the site today commemorates both the successful escape, and Schultz's death as a victim of the Berlin Wall.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

I had to travel to Germany on business two years after the wall came down. At one point I had to travel to Magdeburg, which is former East Germany. Going across the old border is like driving back in time. You just can't imagine how much damage the USSR did to that beautiful landscape. Just looking at the roads you can see the huge difference. You go from high tech autobahn that the German's have no peer to old beat up concrete that has not been repaired for years. Every building in town was the same greyish/brownish concrete square shaped block. No color. Cobblestone streets, dirt alleys, no lighting outdoors, just bleak. It didn't help that I was there in the dead of winter. It was midnight dark until 9am, then dark, overcast sky, then dark by 4pm. For 4 weeks I never saw the sun. When I flew out of Hanover, the plane broke thru the solid cloud cover to pure, unblocked sunlight. It was the most intense feeling of joy I have ever felt. I just cannot describe it. I am sure that the country has been restored by now, but back then it was two different worlds. Seeing the old 1960's era Trabant cars and the Russian Vaz Ladas and their smoky 2 stroke engines tooling around in the 90's was also a mind blowing thing

[@koenven7012]

It has improved, but there still are differences between the two regions.

[@brandtc.7991]

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[@theuralictribes5689]

Fun fact: The irony is that there was someone who mentioned an idea of rebuilding the Berlin wall except this time it won't be called the Berlin Wall nor it will split Germany in half. Fun Fact 2: The Berlin Wall was guarded my Czechoslovak Wolfdogs specifically mix bred to become active guard dogs.

[@daniellebcooper7160]

Another great video, thank you. It makes me appreciate living in western society, and wanting to defend it even more.

[@darius9333]

Eastern has its good part.

[@harrietharlow9929]

I had family in East Berlin. My aunt went through stuff in the closing days of WWII that were just horrendous. I remember visiting East Berlin in 1960 and 1972. You wouldn't believe how much rubble was there 15 years after the war had ended and that rubble was still there in 1973. Compared to West Berlin, it was a dismal place. I still remember crossing at checkpoint Charlie clearly--and that has been half a century now. I cried with happiness as I watched the Wall being torn down on TV. My uncle didn't live to see that (my aunt died in 1961 or 1962 and my uncle died in 1988), but I know how happy they would have been to see that.

[@compatriot852]

The amount of unique ways people managed escaped from the Soviet Union are endless and I feel you could easily make hundreds of videos on it.

[@hughmungus1767]

The Haus am Checkpoint Charlie ("House at Checkpoint Charlie") museum in Berlin, which I believe still operates, contains a wonderful collection of information about the many clever ways East Germans used to escape to the West. I highly recommend it.

[@mrgrinderman8861]

Always happy to hear stories about the Berlin wall!

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Excellent, Father has provided us with more new content again, it's getting better everyday.

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Loving the increase in quality and rate of these vids!

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Amazing video of history and the graphics department stepping it up a bit overall one of the best of your work

[@jeeferw7770]

My respect to all those college students 👏 , they are true heroes for all those people who safely crossed the border.

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I appreciate this youtube channel....learn a lot.....and thank u for pushing more content this past few years

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

The illustration of the SKS is great in every episode TV Sergeant Schultz: i know nothing Nothing Real life Sergeant Schultz: shot by friendly fire

[@OffGridInvestor]

East German schultz couldn't get Dutch chocolate

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[@MrTheHillfolk]

Went to Berlin in 2005. Going from the east side back to the west was like the wizard of oz where it goes from black and white to color. The east still had alot of catching up on culture. Houses on the east were all drab and gray and the west side had wild colors like yellow and red houses with expression.

[@Gunslinger_VR]

My grandfather served at the Berlin wall (1960 - 1963) (US 🇺🇸)

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This would make for a very interesting movie! Simple History always makes incredible and the best history content! 👍

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[@OffGridInvestor]

There's PILES of ones like this that happened with east Germany

[@jones7590]

My father (no volunteer) was in the Egon-Schulz-Companie (named after this "hero"). The high-ranking officers praised Egon Schulz for his will to die for the system and so on. Later all found out what really was the truth, but some already whispered about it. Always a interesting time when he speaks about his years there. To the political side: many ex-SED-Members integrated themselves in the now existing political party "Die Linke". It´s sad to see young people vote for parties in which are many criminals that supported the shooting from innocent germans or still support communism. A "denacification" just for communism should have took place.

[@hkiller57]

plenty of exgestapo and other nazis got rolled into the west german police and political parties as well, its not just former soviets with that problem

[@jones7590]

@@hkiller57 ah great whataboutism about a problem that everybody in Germany knew about. Im pointing it out because nobody talks about the "Mauermörder" which are the people behind the shooting of innocent people, torture and interogation.

[@hkiller57]

@@jones7590 ah look at you pretending that the crimes of the stasi arent just as well known or talked about

[@Bandyboo322]

Great video very informative. I learned something new :D

[@curraheewolf]

I never knew that story. Thanks Simple History for sharing. 5 stars! *****

[@AXIAM79]

I remember from a documentary years ago that the owner just gave the key to the students and told them along the lines of "whatever happens, I don't know you and I wasn't aware of this"

[@Lnwf-ts9tb]

I just watched The Tunnel in my German class. It was pretty good. The movie is in all German with English subtitles and showed other attempts to cross over recorded in history, like a bus ramming through the wall. I suggest giving the movie a watch if you know German or want to read subtitles the entire time

[@nateallen2714]

My German teacher I’m high school had a piece of the Berlin Wall. She went there on a school trip when the wall was being taken down.

[@ianlarson517]

I was gifted a piece of the Berlin Wall that has some paint on it. It was from my friends mom who just happened to be there when it fell. She went on a spontaneous weekend trip to Berlin with some coworkers when it came down.

[@prinz5816]

Great video! Could we maybe see some napoleonic videos aswell? Love your channel and your content. Keep producing gold.

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Epic History has great video's on the napoleonic wars if you haven't seen them. I highly recommend them

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@@wesleyy2502 those videos are from 2 years ago, and their still nice

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[@johndoogan3712]

There's a really good 😊 story about the cyclist 🚴 who built a huge hot air balloon 🎈and flew with his family out of Czechoslovakia to land in Austria 🇦🇹. The basket was reinforced underneath by a thick steel plate to protect them from ground fire and carried four large propane cylinders feeding a home built burner, the balloon 🎈had to lift almost a ton in weight including his bicycle. A mig was tasked to find them which lost them when they flew into cloud ☁️. They found that the burner had to remain lit constantly to prevent the balloon from descending. During its 15 mile flight it reached an altitude of 15,000 feet to finally land in countryside when a policeman 👮 who watched the balloon's descent came to investigate. They became Austrian residents and worked to pay 💰 off the import charges for one ☝️ balloon 🎈. I read an article many years ago in the Reader's digest about this story and I write this from memory. Please do a video about this story.

[@hoosierpatriot2280]

I had never heard of this. Thanks for educating me.

[@YangLeee]

Love this channel

[@LSTNSCRFN]

Great video covering more East Berlin Escapes do one of the Hot Air Balloon that flew over east Berlin and landed in West Berlin

[@wazzup233]

And cue the tune of 99 Luft Balloons

[@brianjschumer]

Do a story on the family of Cubans fleeing Cuba in a bathtub with a plastic tarp as a sail and old tires and garbage pails as floaties

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Simple history you rock awesome videos as always.

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I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@weetytoaster1835]

BRUH!!!! My friend on discord makes it seem like the Soviets were innocent and didn’t do any fucked up things 3:50. Please make more videos exposing what things the Soviets dead

[@ActiveChildGunner87]

They killed a lot of people

[@ActiveChildGunner87]

Does a genocide to innocent people

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Literally putting people to gulag

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@@ActiveChildGunner87 I know and I want to know the events of those killings

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@@ActiveChildGunner87 I also need pictures to

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We Wish to feature about the Philippines under Martial Law from 1972 to 1981

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Please can you do a video on either Wilhelm Voigt or Reginald Jones, though the latter caused the repainting of an entire submarine fleet.

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Amazing content!

[@panosf.kennedy2253]

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!

[@bruhism173]

Can you cover the signing of the declaration of independence? Or the siege of fort McHenry where the men used their owns lives to hold up the American flag to not declare defeat? Keep up the good work

[@fuall6993]

I like how they do a minute of silence at the end

[@rotarded1983]

You guys should tell the story of the MG Midget/Healey sprite that was used by two different people to break out of east Berlin. The car was small enough that with the windshield removed it could pass under the toll gate. It was a West Berlin car that was bought specifically to do this and coincidentally after they had succeeded in getting someone out of east Berlin was sold to someone who did the exact same thing

[@davidarango4679]

There was also this one guy who snuk his girlfriend across the border inside his front passenger seat of his car. Since he made several trips over the border to see her, the border guards got used to seeing him. He carved out a space in the front seet for her to sit in. Once he got to the check point, the E. German border guards so used to seeing him didn't even notice the front passenger seat and let him on through.

[@bockqses7543]

There's a book about this, it's called "A Night Divided"

[@nirangatang7759]

These videos make my day

[@Bcarr122391]

Can I just take a moment to say: damn good sound design. I looked over my shoulder, thinking I heard two Asian ladies talking behind me - where a wall was. Then I realized it was the video. 🔥

[@arober9758]

Excellently neat job on this Cold War story fellows!!!🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🥇🥇

[@Lanceyboy03]

My dad told me a story about my Opa and Oma regarding the division of Germany after the Second World War. It wasn’t quite as impressive as this but I still found it very interesting.

[@sebashtundakeng8683]

the story of the tunnel is a must watch

[@kyleshiflet9952]

3 videos this week wow awesome

[@nievelatino9691]

So Germany was like Korea except being north vs south it was East vs West

[@kb4903]

Is there any movies on something like this? Seems a great story.

[@WHistory430]

when I heard that Reinhard was on one of the Space Shuttle Challenger missions, I quickly Googled if he was on the one that exploded, luckily he wasn't.

[@rocketman6478]

Anyone else noticed. In the amount of time it took to watch this video, a person would have been crawling their way to freedom. 10 minutes

[@nicholasscott6418]

This would make a excellent movie.

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

Me: Ohhh~ I want DeMocRaCy.... Kim Jong Un: We have Democracy at home.... *Democracy at home:*

[@charlie8344]

North Korea is basically a monarchy pretending to be communist

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

@@charlie8344 For some reason, they are also calling themselves as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." Indeed...👁👄👁

[@commandoslayer]

Love the crawling animation at the ending.

[@jakubekiert5993]

Great video as always. Maybe next video was about Warsaw uprising or my personal wish story about freddie mercury.

[@naturetrails8357]

Another example of great German engineering

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East Berliners: If we can't get through and over, then we'll go under.

[@T.Y.B.o.d.]

I loved this video. I watched it because it reminded me of the book A NIGHT DIVIDED.

[@RockyMountains0721]

One of my favorite escape stories from East Berlin was the story of the two brothers who used a hot air balloon to cross over to the West. They flew their balloon over the wall at around 4:00 in the morning under the cloak of darkness. The brothers also knew that there were less border guards along the Berlin Wall at that hour of the early morning.

[@ligayamatira2164]

Simple History can you do a Simple History video on Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines under Martial Law from 1972 to 1981

[@macrotaste6585]

Hey simple history, Native German speaker here. Great video to an important part of Germanys history. But I think you made a mistake "freie wahten" is incorrect it's "freie Wahlen"

[@flintmichigan1679]

I really respect this channel

[@technoglow9884]

Excellent content as always, just wish the 20 minute commercial was at the end of the video.