use at the top of the vine humming does not get drunk. why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much do we need per day? press stop hans, praying for help find the offices get smaller on dw science, outtake talk channel. all over the. 1 this used to be the symbol for the cold war and the separation of germany in east and west portland. well, construction on and started on august, 13th of 1961. that's exactly 60 years ago. that's why this time i'm in berlin.

even though the wall has now been consigned to history, there are still remnants of it scattered around town. today i'll show you where to find them and the story say, tell for 28 years, the wall divided berlin kept families and friends of parts and brought great suffering upon the people. there was heavy surveillance and many escape attempts from east to west. and the tragically, the, there were a border crossings between east and west berlin. one of them was this one page of looking on november 9th of 1989. been say the wall came down this quarter of crossing at bonham. estrada was the 1st to open and the news spread like wildfire, and just one worth 20000 people crossed from east berlin to the west. legally

that is to this day, this is one of the greatest moments in german history. this commemorative stone was built out of an original piece of the wall and the wall trailed, has thoroughly transformed the area today. this is a paradise for cyclists through nature lovers, but until 1989. this was the death strip and no man's land between east and west. for like the wall was 155 kilometers long and enclosed west for land. so i have a lot to cover, but i won't be doing it on foot. you can find these kinds of scooters on every corner nowadays. you just need an app. and we got the,

my 1st stop is brandon berg gave definitely berlin's most famous monument and the symbol for freedom. during the cold war, it was right behind the border and the soviet sector of the city. probably the plot is today, a popular spot for tourists from around the world. but back in the day it was off limits to the public it's difficult to imagine when up until 32 and years ago there were surveillance towers and tank traps. here with an app called mile a are, you can see exactly where the wong used to run some unintentionally. just one day later, the 1st will was built the

company. yes, 2 decades of good vision of the moving on to put them up like a live lead transportation help with skyscrapers, hotels, office buildings and restaurants when germany was divided. this was actually the broadest stretch of the desk. almost all buildings and the militarized stone were torn down. and here too, you can find remnants of the wall this is arguably the most famous remaining part of the berlin wall, the east side gallery, and the longest 1.3 kilometers, run along the rivers place. after the wall came down, 118 artists from 21 countries painted the eastern side of the wall. the most famous

works of the top on crossing through the wall and the fraternal kits between leon impressed enough and electronica the not far from here. the old, the bound branch cross is the spring back in the day and was the only way to get some parts for it and the west to freely sign in the east. next stop checkpoint charlie the most famous border crossing. here i need suzanne to move out of the berlin wall memorial. you can see how huge the order process and why is it stretched over to my life. i don't have various check in stations yet in the allies guard house and quality. we retained it's not a vision is warm for light franklin street i make for i would go in later. a metal container, lots of symbolism and lots of irony. the old,

the thing remaining here today is a replica of this provisional allied control booth. the ddr is massive. border complex is long gone. checkpoint charlie, so fame is why has everybody who comes to berlin heard of it enough for them to take one tablet cooling charlie became famous due to an event that took place here 60 years ago. here in october, 1961 and american and soviet tanks based off your during the hottest phase of the cold or those images went around the world and made this place famous. and that fame has lasted to this day, as before, the accusing gets v as there are a lot of tour that's around, it's a huge attraction that's named in every berlin guide. but there are critical voices to alleging that it has become a sort of disney land that it has little to do with the history of the places. how do you feel about that? that is to isn't as far as in souvenir shops,

we see here are the downside of a big drop this place house on taurus. luckily, there are also attractions dealing with its history. an open air gallery on a construction fence on the black box cold war exhibition, though they were all designed as temporary attraction. i, until there was something permanent. but this temporary, real estate has lasted 10 years. so something really must happen here. now here, are there any plans that you believe are aiming in the right direction because they didn't check points on the interest that hasn't been approved on the phones this plan stipulates i there should be 2 open spaces life and that one can be used to construct a museum that involved the . ringback ready located in the heart of the capitol, the berlin wall memorial is the main place of remembrance of germany's former

division. the construction of the wall devastated the lives of many and left its mark on ben ellis, dressing traces of which are still visible today. here you can see the last remaining section of the border installations and its spatial depth complete with the wall, watch tower, and depth trends. at the wall memorials documentation center visitors can learn about the political and historical events that led to the building of the wall. it's a venture will fall and german reunification band know us trusted assault. plenty of escape attempts. the group for lena on to button or berlin under world organizes the medic towards the bottom the both sides which were entirely in the french. secondly, the honda but the board to run along the edge of the building of funny property line on the roll when top of the team come on foot piece jim and the police came into the building tools from the inside and what's the residents could on the

inside there, probably some more properties behind them that wouldn't even say reached nicole eod walls not west berlin was so close, but suddenly unreachable. the resulting desperation let many to jump out of their windows. the escape of 77 year old sleet a short so was especially dramatic stimulus. nausea broke down to do a soft spring. when she wants to jump in with it. they tried to pull her back into the flat about these 2 students down below. finally, the jump top, grab the legs and hold it till she fell into the life of the burning fire department. through the basement of an old drury, we reached the reconstruction of a very elaborate escaped tunnel, the and fresh air supplying electricity cables and phone lines. the, this little cart allows the tunnel builders to bring out the debris with the

health of the escape facilitators from back in the day, the people here also try building a tunnel themselves of around 70 projects. only 19 were successful. this is really impressive and just imagining that here have people crossing with all their belongings and a child or their children is really incredible. the most tunnels, lynn, from west to east and ran as deep as possible. so the communist intelligence wouldn't be able to detect them with their acoustic tracking devices. but what did people do with the debris? it must have been hard to hide. second, yeah, that's, that's be stored in the cellar where they did the taking the wherever. a 1st load celebrate and was wondering where in the end just narrow pathways and also they dumped the pond wooden walls which reached the ceiling. it was a real captain. mouse came between the stones, even for the call to the escape. health of the wonderful sometimes one side, one,

sometimes the other but not all. the tunnels here are replica so that's the original escape to the my last stop is mellow pack, while elsewhere the course of the death strip can hardly be followed. here it can still be clearly traced and the elongated shape of the park. a meeting chris charles, were back in the eighty's. she lived in west berlin. she moved back to her native u. k. and returned to berlin in 2013. now she's part of the friends of my little pock association. what makes this play smell of boxes, specialty you? it was the trunk solutions that's happened to. it's just in kits incredible. um is this the germans called it to test strips? it was the space between the 2 rolls between those tools. what was the 1st thing about this? it was, you know,

a top dog of goats patrolling. um, it was about keeping people a pos, it was, it was awful. the 1st time i came into this place, so i just, i couldn't believe it. i didn't actually realize it had been landscaped into a park. i was just amazed so instantly started teresa 2 thoughts. is there any bodies that takes care of the place? well, this, the place on most of the funds to most hot, what do the friends of smallpox do? we're trying to custom noticed trees. so maybe we look up this trees as well to some extent of the playgrounds. and, but we also to him because of that sphere rest of the place and got excited so much just like it. this place is now ever saying that they bought things before. and instead of in about pricing, people keeping them. i've talked about death. it's about bringing people together.

it's about lice. oh no, just for fun. and as you can see, that feeling is shared by many others. for 20 years, the wall divided the cities in berlin, germany and the entire world. this period of time will never be forgotten. and it shouldn't be because remembering is crucial to keep the past from repeating itself . so if you ever happen to find yourself in berlin, make sure to take some time to explore the history of the wall. and then a little deeper into berlin's fascinating history. we only just started and scratching the surface the next time somewhere in germany. the it's time for vision, race for sustainability. but

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