and that's all for me for now, but stay with us after the break service check in, looks at the legacy of the boat and will away, that's the way so you can get one use and information around o'clock on dw does come with one of us on social media, us dw, and what else i can do by the shuttle? the currently more people than ever on the world wide and such a base in life. saffel jessica admitted god, there's a lot to actually find out about rubinez story info, my friends all over the. 1 old, 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 stories they tell. for 28 years, the wall divided for land. it 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 end the tragically, the there were a border crossings between east and west for land. one of them was this one page of lincoln on november 9th of 1989. the day the wall came down. this quarter of crossing at bonham. monstrosity was the 1st to open and the news spread like wildfire, and just one were 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. 3rd nature lovers, but until 1989. this was the depth strip and no man's land between east and west for the wall was 155 kilometers long and enclosed west berlin. 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 i'll put out the

. my 1st stop is brandenburg game, definitely berlin's most famous monument and the symbol for freedom. during the cold war, it was right behind the border in the soviet sector of the city. probably the plot is today a popular spot for a tourist 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 wall used to run and i didn't touch it just one day later. the 1st wall was built. the

other company, yes, 2 decades of good vision. the, the moving on to a lively transportation house, 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 zone were torn down. and here too, you can find remnants of the wall and this is arguably the most famous remaining part of the berlin wall, east side gallery, and the longest 1.3 kilometers run along the rivers play. after the wall came down, 118 artist 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 electronic of the not far from here. the old, the bomb branch cross is the spring back in the day. it 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 the mood of the berlin wall memorial. you can see how huge the order process and why is it stretched over to i live as we don't have various check in stations yet. the empty allies guard house in quality, we retained its, my division is warm for light franklin street i made for i would go in later. a metal container,

lots of symbolism and lots of irony. the old leasing remaining here today is a replica of this provisional allied control booth. the g d r's. massive border complex is log on to the checkpoint. charlie, so fame is why has everybody who comes to berlin heard of it enough for them to take one child going. charlie became famous due to an event that took place here 60 years ago. here in october, 1961 and the american and soviet tanks faced off here during the hottest phase of the cold war. those images went around the world and made this place famous, meant that fame has lasted to this day as before, the season gets via, 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 issue isn't as far as and souvenir shops we see here are the downside of the big draw. this place has on taurus. luckily, there are also attractions dealing with its history. an open air gallery on a construction fence on, on the black box cold war exhibition, though they were all designed as temporary attraction. i, until there was something permanent with, but this temporary stage has lasted 10 years. so something really, it must happen here. now here, are there any plans that you believe are aiming in the right direction because he didn't check points on the interest that hasn't been approved for this plan stipulates i there should be 2 open spaces life and that one can be used to construct a museum that involves the . ringback 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 as many and left its mark on that now as dressing, traces of which are still visible today. here you can see the last remaining section of the border installations and it's spatial depth complete with the wall watchtower and depth strip 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 found no stresses. sa, plenty of escape attempts, the group for linda on to a button or berlin underworld organizes the medic towards the bottom, the both sides which were entirely in the french. secondly, the condo, put the boat to run along the edge of the building of one is to the property line on the roll when top and always of all the team come on for the east gym and the police came and long term building tools from the inside and what's the residents

could on the inside that it probably is the real property behind them that wouldn't contain breached co eod walls. 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. and tell me, what does it broke down to do a soft spring when she wants to jump in with that they tried to pull her back into the flat the these 2 students down below her. 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. they had fresh air supplying electricity cables and phone lines. the, this little cart allow the tunnel builders to bring out the debris with the

health of the escape facilitators from back in the day, the people here also tried building a tunnel themselves around 70 projects, only 19 were successful. this is really impressive. and just imagining that you 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. 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 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, miles came between the stones, even for the call to the escape health of the so sometimes one side, one,

sometimes the other but not all. the tunnels here are replica so that's the original escaped tunnel. 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 this trump 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 2 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 i instantly started teresa. what your thoughts is there any bodies it takes care of the place? well, this, the place on a some defensive laptop. what do the friends of smallpox do? we're trying to custom noticed trees. so maybe we look up those trees as well to some extent of the playgrounds, and but what else 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 . instead of rid about pricing, people keeping them. i've talked about death. it's about bringing people together.

it's about lies. oh no, it's just for fun. and as you can see, that feeling is shared by many others. for 20 years, the wall divided the city 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. so you next time somewhere in germany. the vision is modern days, slavery, women from less than america watching as amazed and most makes hours of the day. no

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