if the time had gotten there joseph stalin harry s. truman and winston churchill. said 50 not the post-war order of germany was europe and the entire world was decided here you can sense the history as soon as you enter the palace the courtyard and of course the conference hall. and that was to quote father and. meticulous care was taken the big 3 felt disadvantaged in any way even the specially built negotiating table reflects this. you see everyone entered the negotiating room through his own entrance care was taken that no one had to wait for anyone else they all entered the hall at the same time to observe the protocol in this. exhibition retraces the events of 75 years again. we have the study as with the original furnishings this was the soviet study the british and american

ones have the documents papers and implements on the desks. and this historic site is presented within the broader world context. in the viewer gets a sense of what was happening in the summer of 1905 and the impact of the 2nd world war which was still going on in asia for example what. the conference tracked on to 17 days newsreel footage gives an impression of how many among the leaders but behind the scenes the high encouragement has already begun to take shape the berlin wall which later run only a few meters away from the palace game that was the differences were so great that they could only be patched up provisionally. and the cold war got its start and cecilia healthy. the 2 superpowers were already facing off against one another.

my next stop is the topography of terra with over a 1000000 visitors a year it's one of the best known places of remembrance in berlin the documentation center informs and educates visitors about perpetrators the people behind the nazis regime of power and terror truly and kemah my own shows me around. could you briefly explain what i see here. this is the model of the german riots government district that's what it was even before the nazi era . is where the most important ministries were located. on the spot where we are now from 933 on was the main office of the prussian secret state police. that was the headquarters of the political police the gestapo the headquarters of the s.s. the should stuff and the security service of the s.s.

occupied the area where the topography of terror is located now take it all sounds very similar security service is shoot stuff how did they differ. what's important is that they were part of 2 different areas the word gestapo stood for the secret state police. that was a state or government agency a police agency. the s.s. the should stuff and also existed before 933 but it wasn't part of the state but it was part of the nazi party that's a very important point in a democracy a state based on the rule of law keep state institutions and party organizations separate after 933 they were in a woven here with. different organizations but with a single goal to maintain the nazi's hold on power when they fought the resistance and organized deportations. so you could say that here at this location the threads

all came together of many of the crimes that were committed one or 2000 kilometers away from here all. these here were the perpetrators. yes these were young people radicals who were prepared to give everything they had to ensure the success of their movement and especially germany success in the war they saw themselves as a young radical elite. in. the exhibition continues outside the cellar walls with the gestapo building were excavated in the 1980 s. right behind them ran the berlin wall of which pieces remain today. went into words the end of the war a lot of people were still fighting including older people or very young ones even though the situation was already hopeless why did they do that. there was anyone who tried to resist who refused to take part face the real risk that they'd be sentenced to death by

a special court and then executed. but another very important question is what did they see as the alternative. here in berlin the soviet union the red army they were the liberators. but many berliners didn't see them as a realistic option for many berliners the soviets were something they'd been taught to fear something they'd been taught was the mortal enemy. the nazis persecuted detained tortured and murdered millions of people especially jews and many places in berlin today commemorate the jewish victims of the nazi regime. has a long jewish tradition stretching back to the 13th century in the 1920 s. some 170000 jews lived in the city after 983 many were forced to emigrate all fled from the nazis around $55000.00 jews were killed in the shower the holocaust

the nazi regime's mass annihilation of european jews. the holocaust memorial only the brandenburg gate commemorates this genocide a field of concrete blocks of varying heights all reminiscent of the way the abstract installation aims to evoke a sense of contemplation. since the memorials are important for understanding and for compassion i mean the generation after me i'm 18 now the generation after me needs to understand how terrible this was even though they didn't experience it directly so nothing like this will ever happen again. there are more than 1600. stumbling stones small memorial scattered throughout the city in front of the former homes of the victims of genocide. many jews once lived close to the center of. the new synagogue at the time it was one of germany's biggest and most

important jewish houses of worship it was heavily damaged in the 2nd world war the front section was rebuilt in the 990 s. . house is the largest exhibition on jewish culture in europe the eye catching architect it features a floor plan meant to have a fractured star of david. the building is a brand with concrete shots leading nowhere. this installation is especially disturbing more than $10000.00 faces lies strewn across the floor visit his are allowed to walk on them and reminded of the many victims of the war. many non jewish berliners also fell victim to the war. they sought shelter from

bombing raids and cellars and bunkers in home park the ruins of a gigantic flecked tower are still standing it was built to defend the city from erie and provide shelter to civilians in the area. guided tours are held from april to october in the winter bats live in the ruins of the bunker. the entrance to the structure was in what's left of this massive door frame. the original doors weighed about a ton to make the entrance bomb proof and above all gas proof. all. 3 flak towers were completed in berlin invented gotten and fiddly parks and here in who park they resemble massive fortresses. this is the basic design of above the big heavy anti aircraft guns were mounted on

the corners and sides they were smaller caliber guns for shorter range defense on the narrow sides there were the huge doorways where civilians and material deliveries entered the building. the shelter had room for as many as 40000 people but as the last battles reached up to 60000 people are believed to have squeezed in when the air raid sirens wailed berliners had 15 minutes to find a shelter and then the bombs came raining down. and the poles and thousands of people in this bunker what was that like. it's hard to imagine 60000 people in here the water was off the toilets were stopped up off and there were 2 or 3 people sitting on every step on the stairway extending down 6 floors cowering in fear for their lives. together with the civilians many soldiers were also

accommodated in the home. the guns were so big it took $22.00 anti-aircraft assistance to operate them since all the adult soldiers were at the front or had already fallen only children were left to fire the cannons. we talked to a lot of them and one really captured it. he said we could fire the biggest can in the air force had ever made but we couldn't go to the late show at the cinema because we were just kids for film. after the war 3 attempts were made to demolish the flecked tower but only part of it caved in the berliners soon piled the rubble from their own room buildings around it now the area is covered with trees. the top offers a great view of the city. well the flak towers did not stop the allies they won the war and the vide of berlin into 4 zones of occupation and the american

sector was in the southwest of the city and there's the l. ike museum that's my last stop for today. during the post war era the lifes of the american forces stationed to berlin centered on clay i believe this is where the g.i.'s shopped played sports and went to the movies. the outpost theater is now a listed building and part of the museum. exhibition covers the history of the western allied powers in berlin. and it begins with the arrival of the american british and french occupation forces in 1045 and ends with a ceremonial departure of all the elements in 1904. among the highlights is one of the british transport planes that kept west berlin supplied during the soviet blockade of berlin in 1949.

this was splendid billed starting in 1953 by the american and british secret services to tap into soviet telecommunication lines in east berlin. the war was a long time ago and yet there are still many places in the city where you can learn about this dark time and i got to say i've learned a lot and i hope you get to. see an x. time here at check in.

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