The Berlin Wall explained

On August 13th 1961 the borders around West Berlin were closed and East Germany started building the Berlin Wall.
How did it come to this?
This video will zoom in on the years before 1961, starting in 1945 shortly after the Second World War.
I will discuss the political tensions between East and West and the standpoints of both sides before and after August 13th 1961.
Link to the watch tower museum: www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.d...
Thanks to: nuberlin.com for using the map in the thumbnail.

[@Vendraz]

Super underrated channel

[@bobbymccoy702]

Excellent videos. Fantastic subject. I toured Europe as a drummer in a rock band. We toured in 89,90,91. Based in Hamburg we were signed to SPV records. We recorded in Berlin so I saw Alexander Platz, actually crossed at Checkpoint Charley, etc. These were historic times . I still have pieces of the Berlin wall that I broke off. Keep them Videos coming .Love the channel

[@oldmanc2]

I met Jurgen Litfin in 2011 on a bike tour of Berlin. I didn't know he'd passed away. The murder of his brother still clearly deeply affected him

[@neilwalsh4058]

Just discovered your channel and find it fascinating. I've always been interested in the Warsaw Pact countries, USSR and all it became after WW2. We visited Berlin in Feb this year and absolutely loved East Berlin plus the reminders of a dividend city still in view.

[@cactussauce3452]

Just found this channel today but it is great .Your videos are very informative and well made. I look forward to seeing more in the future. Keep up the good work!

[@Ocinneade345]

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[@mahdi5796]

Indeed. I've subscribed too

[@FromMaritzborough]

Love your channel it is hard to find stuff on East Germany in English

[@petermitchelmore2592]

It’s a useful reminder of the Wall’s backstory. During the 3rd year of my degree, I lived in Berlin and did a research assignment. Berlin als Hauptstadt der Bundesrepublik (Berlin as the capital city of the Federal Republic).

[@TimothySielbeck]

Just found your channel today.

[@juliapinhabel4285]

Wow, amazing explanation!

[@mayaq8324]

Best explanation so far, and I’ve seen many, thanks

[@Zenmyster]

An old family friend rode her bicycle over the border as a teenager. I never heard the story until she was about eighty.

[@GMornat]

Just discovered your channel. Thanks for your content 👌

[@1joshjosh1]

I'm still binge watching your Channel 1 and 1/2 hours later

[@meem6635]

Hi, loving your videos! Can I ask: the map of divided Germany around 0:45 shows what look like 2 American enclaves within the British sector of the western part of Germany. Is that right? Thanks!

[@eastgermanyinvestigated]

That's correct! It's Hamburg and Bremen, who both also were under American control.

[@riccardopiovosi8238]

Just discovered your channel. Super!

[@Avro7]

Very interesting! Thanks.

[@Ostsol]

Those East-to-West refugee numbers are pretty staggering! I can't say I had any idea of the scale of the exodus.

[@fairlyamused]

This is good stuff very interesting

[@kevanhubbard9673]

From Lubbeck in the north to Trieste in the south Churchill declared that the Iron Curtain ran.Really it was much further north than Lubbeck since it ran from the Norwegian Russian border south to Trieste.

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Very interesting.

[@Kerys23a]

Just found this channel very glad because I have a strange fascination with the DDR My first ever wages were spent on ddr stuff

[@TheFrewah]

I think part of the wall was buoilt such that there were small plots of land on the west side, i rhink ot was used for gardening and rhey had to pay rent. And there was a small wooden structure as well that had to comply to wome weird rules

[@vernicejillmagsino9603]

4:31 Why East Germans don’t get pass to West Germany in through Czechoslovakia then to Bavaria in West Germany

[@michadomeracki5910]

What about the border regions between West Berli and DDR? The Berlin Wall was built between both Berlins but what about the western parts of West Berlin? You know after moving from Western Berlin to the west you were moving into DDR forests and planes.

[@cat5636]

Wasn't the wall completely surrounding west-Berlin?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

​@@cat5636What about the border between East and West Germany?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Why did the Berlin Wall go through Berlin and not you know the longer border between the two not Edit: "country" countries.

[@elkigirl123]

There was a border between the countries but also around West Berlin.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@seagullatemylunch I was always confused by this. The way it was presented I thought that the wall Edit: "was" from the Baltic through Berlin down to the Aegean I guess.

[@elkigirl123]

This is a very common misconception

[@MeingeliebterFuhrer]

escaping today is impossible. this "democracy" is ubiquitous.

[@Misho83]

Was hoping for a more nuanced analysis of the former GDR, only heard well-known anticommunist cold war tropes so far...

[@simonstergaard]

really.. you think this current system is more free...better...is the same crap packaged in a pretty paper.

[@wingeren]

At least they won't shoot you for trying to leave your own country

[@elkigirl123]

Well democracy is definitely much freer, the GDR was a totalitarian dictatorship with no rights. Dissent was illegal. Leaving was illegal. No free speech. The state decided what education you could receive and where you would work. As Kennedy said, democracy isn’t perfect but we never had to build a wall to keep people in. There’s a reason millions of East Germans fled to the west and why many even died trying to escape after they closed the borders. And there’s a reason East Germans chose reunification in the end. But if you want to live in a communist state what’s stopping you, there are communist states you can move to. 🤷🏻‍♀️