'Trams in East Germany'

Clips from Ton Pruissen's 2017 film 'Trams in East Germany 1966-1978', which shows trams in a number of East German towns and cities.
A fascinating film, not just for the many varieties of tram in use, but for the views it provides of civilian life on the streets of communist East Germany.
The full DVD may be purchased at: www.camdenmin.co.uk

[@tomduggan51]

Camden Thanks for this very interesting look at life in East Germany (and high-speed drivers!). Very well done.

[@Brissieskater1]

Wow! This video is rare footage and you have done well to keep such good quality film after all these years.

[@adamharris3335]

Thanks - glad you like it. The whole DVD is that sort of quality!

[@douglasdownie2587]

Absolutely fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing!

A world that no longer exists...great footage of GDR...

[@tudvalstone]

0:20 Wow, the Trabant was so fast, it could even overtake a Moskvich!.

[@worldtradesurfer]

00:00-00:07 = Lockwitztalbahn Dresden - Kreischa 00:08-00:27 = Dresden 00:28-01:05 = Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) 01:06-01:17 = Erfurt 01:18-01:29 = Zwickau 01:30-02:07 = Naumburg (Saale) 02:08-03:00 = Görlitz

[@juboo4451]

Danke!!

[@keyboarddancers7751]

1:14 Mark Kermode?!

[@Wujek937.]

Trams in Ebb & Flo

[@dogralle]

Cool, gleich zu Beginn Chemnitzer Schmalspur-Strassenbahn

[@worldtradesurfer]

Falsch! Das ist die Lockwitztalban.

[@JohnSmith-eo5sp]

Boy these trams sure are slow - - but it still beats walking in a country where the cars(Trabis) were crap, with a ten year waiting list

[@wuloki]

They weren't that slow actually. Those models could easily do 70 km/h (45 mph).

[@wuloki]

Today, there are used for driving school services. kzbin.info/www/bejne/epnFdnWKmtd9nJI

[@patricklange5325]

Haben die Bahnen in der DDR auch immer HU bekommen?

[@christiankastorf4836]

Davon ist auszugehen.

[@danielomni9084]

2:34 You can see Hitler on the run. More detail : with a stolen car.

[@christiankastorf4836]

That shaking movement is from the bad state of the street not from the driver having suffered from Parkinson's Disease for some 20 odd years.