substances beyond their control. so you know, bottom line is the situation is pretty volatile. it's very hard to tell whether how much gas will through it flow through that pipeline on thursday, if any. and so european leaders here, i really preparing for the sort of worst case scenario, which is and that russia cuts off all gas applies to europe. you're watching. the w is live from berlin. stick around coming up next is doc fil, looking at the famous as it sicilian, half the person residents that host the potsdam conference opt out. well, what? i'm really mm hm. and thanks for watching. take care. bye bye. ah, a man with the memories of a woman ah, ali from syria is born in a female body, forced into marriage, raped far from home. ali can finally become the person he's

always wanted to be. i was born in berlin. starts july 22nd on d w. ah, oh, a 100 year old royal cottage in the state of brandon bork, almost modern yet from a different era. it is the final palace built by the whole salons, the imperial dynasty, that once ruled germany, a palace that welcomed powerful men, both losers and winners. with

little bit more. yeah. i don't bother the longer wait. a 2nd video, i suggest the ones on the outside are a bit lower. this one is still tomorrow. shortly after the war ended, the victor's flags hung just below the hoa and fell on eagle and the bull crest of macklin. bork, defense, the windows are about as tall as a flag, or what do you think? yeah, just about. ah, the potsdam conference set out to determine the post war order. so the 3 most powerful men traveled to hitler's defeated germany. security is tight. the men are in soviet occupied territory. move of chicago, somewhat confidence in all the soviet intelligence services played an active role

in the conference planning. the n k b d, his marriage should, and the people's commissariat for state security was up us assume goober o. winston churchill, joseph stalin, and harry s. truman. the big 3, seal to precious fate in this. how insole on palace. ah 50 years earlier. the palace doesn't yet exist, but dreams of it. do a married couple with offspring on horseback vill helm graced by god to become the king of prussia and german emperor, the son, the air to the throne vill helm. crown grants of prussia and mother. i goes to victoria, queen of prussia in germany. on g. does, is he does, and that was the fate of all these women who ruled. do you get

a were given just one function nines to give birth to crown prince's, which way? the german empire, a modern industrial power with an over zealous interest in its military. this assumed zoe's will be produced, is what shape the image shape society. a glad zip depiction of the hey day of the prussian military. go glad site. and you know, it's the hey day when the guard regiments and dimed in 3 rows on onto the linden boulevard and the emperor rides in. and you would only see that in the time of emperor ville. hm. the 2nd bedside kaiser, when this tried oh, well, the royal residence isn't potsdam. it's imperial nature. and royal highness is we're part of the city scape, one of the favorites was crown prince village on price and weaving from his clash, his nickname, bring it on. oh, he was a horse and car enthusiast with

a talent for getting tangled up in political matters. this made his relationship with his father difficult. oh, the air to the throne, the future german emperor for the 20th century. here in a car with a cigarette. through the empire, a bride is being sought for the crown prince. ah, this is the duchess of mecklenburg, cecilia. she's 19 years old. a woman in white cecilia and wilhelm. the official engagement photo. 2 yeah, you know, the magnificent wedding in the imperial capital, the greek ruin event of 19 o 5. ah, cecilia goose marie,

a beautiful woman from the north is the crown princess, and becomes the fashion icon for women around the world. due to her extravagant hairstyle. these are from the royal family album mother's delight on the road and on the hunt. a separate residence is planned for the young couple in paxton new garden. it is to be the whole insulins 1st palace of the 20th century. ah. the salons had already built several futile palaces, but this time would be different. it would correspond to the modern h o

architect powell, shelter, known bark with commissions for the project. construction began in 1913 ah, architect and historian will scan shesha, specializes in 20th century construction. the conference due to shy of new inviting via lloyd to visit in hub boy to bow tens of la crown prince was allowed to do as he pleased to waiter. soon though he architect was sent to england to wales to scotland, to look at great architecture house coma. the result, however, was something completely different. as we can see here tonight, who would down this is an ultra modern house, more like a large manor,

large country house, or a country estate wouldn't lantos guten inch. blish. blue england is still considered the source of anything modern, including exclusive design. everything has a touch of empire, even though they are now at war with the british. blue. blue. the house is a work of art. in the interior, only the ceilings and wall paneling vermin, the regional furnishings are almost completely lost and with them. so as the memory of cecilia's influence in shaping the palace, if only in terms of furniture some encourage you to show the interior designer shoe of the noun books and saw himself as

a universal artist. meaning he designed the rooms, wasn't even roy m. a shy at it. oh, into valden as he is. so he was very, very surprised, and certainly also somewhat annoyed when the crown princess cecilia placed paul ludwig close at his side and followed, pushed towards to society. the stage and rome is gone. oh, robust, roomy furniture for overseas steamers was power. louise trusts trademark. cecilia's cabin room though shows perfectly how the architect could also create something graceful. meanwhile, the crown printed that war on the western front. his troops alongside him in the

trenches. in 1917. the monarchy collapses in russia, the united states enters the war, and cecilia hope palace is ready for its new owners. it won't be the last project for cecilia and hope architects. this now does go the tours to fall off and we know that gad, he tossed the wife of paul ludovic tossed it. it's introduced hitler to munich society at the end of the 19th 20th to i'm through to him, her and essentially taught him to eat with a knife and fork. miss owen gather to edison. owens all that was how hitler met paul ludovic toast. in 1930 and envisioned him as the furious 1st architect on z i in e, md in ist now, she took this through, was this book here. was written by pal schultz, a noun bark. no, no, it's no, not in indie you. after 1918 sheen. he had stumbled into an ideological

rot, the united mandeville, all of which culminated an unsavoury racist book. he wrote in 1928 called art and race and finance. had often sciences moses was ultimately the blueprint for the 1937 exhibition of degenerate art. not as human glasses and altered to coincide doesn't as there are already the signs of this strange and twisted volk ish ideology, which was underpinning it, look easy to understand. or des shoots a noun berg combined. this with an incredibly radical racism so forbidden. huh. by choice and only, ah, and this sicilian huff palace in 1918. the crown princess wrote about restrictions in the household as well as machinations in the homeland and says, she considers the era the most terrible thing that germans have experienced in 2000

years of history. ah, a revolution, even in the german empire. the proclamation of a new republic and red flags on the branden brigade. but neither the emperor nor the crown prince would lead the army back to the empire, which is in revolt, as had been expected by the aging leads. they are not seeking confrontation and said they have escaped in secret to the neutral netherlands as it has had and goes to a position idling in minus a large part of the prussian nobility. and the monarchists never forgave the emperor and his son. for the sudden oscar leg to link their actions were interpreted as cowardice as the months in for the kids. if it may be, some saw

a differently a practice. but every source indicates a near universal anger and deep seated dismay. at the flight of these 2 supreme heads of the prussian monarchy kept for the position when i see the crown princess has to cope with the new times alone at the ceiling. and sam revolutionaries want to put a red flag on her palace because real german properties are considered confiscated until the question of expropriation can be clarified. the crown prince. by now the former crown prince has been detained on the outpost veering in, in the netherlands. there he has to think and make plans. 2 ah, 5 years later, in 1923,

he returns the radical revolutionaries have been defeated. he was also planning a political come back in due course. cecilia hoff remains in the possession of the holland sans and the temporary confiscation is lifted. it's now home to the family, which is the royal institution in republican germany wielding networks and influence. ah, the princes are expropriated, but only partially. they are compensated. nobility were also deprived of their titles, but only in principle. them on the line for g of on for non one t could give you twist the order of 1st names and titles. one points, meaning your name is no longer prince bon, hoist. but mr. font poison ivy glen, we can see it was all a republican compromised kanisha compliments. so diana confessed sean, they made a concession to the nobility by saying to you may keep the titles of what for

mother formally. the nobility is abolished fun to formerly long dinner. what does that mean, the daughter does, she may, the people still exist from the families still exist, and compared to other great historical examples in the french revolution of the russian revolution. those being the 2 most important ones in the german nobility, retained much of its symbolic and economic power. she under cornwall machine mocked by hate the nazis, the most radical anti democrats conquer. in the streets. there is crisis in the german republic. it seems to the crown prince that his hour has now come. a fascist italy has a king and a leader, namely, mussolini. what would that look like in germany? crown prince vill how often received his good friend, ham, on glaring at cecilia health and even his friend off hitler chapter. oh, as skip, i know,

not even for i still am deutsche and as for to wish there's a naive, perhaps foolish idea too that one could use the nazi movement like a trojan horse until yonder shifts fit with which one practically jumps out of the trojan horse. into the republic and then creates a new monarchy with vill helm as king vit him. i'd say with hitler as imperial chancellor on hitler. it's as vice consider st plan owned isn't in 1932 mats. there were very advanced negotiations between hitler and the crown prince. about ado on britt loan, a division of power between them. about puck dish and doom fee. the odds as we by not mocked tie, the crown prince would become imperial president is america, and hitler would become his imperial chancellor. wanted level design that this fails because bill home, the 2nd who was still alive and exiled, forbids this plan it and his son agreed on for beat it. on the later on, hey, the crown prince made

a call for the election of hitler on april 1st 1933 and when the climb glasses and vol alpharetta, the crown prince believed his efforts had one hitler, 2000000 votes. but hitler has tricked them all. the german nationalists, and the monarchists, they misunderstand who is the horse, and who is its rider. when comes looking back, one can say that the friendliness shown by the revolution and the republic to the nobility was never repaid by the nobility to the republic 3 months. wicked sought i . ringback ringback crown prince vill helm appeared at a nazi funeral service for murdered se man. in february 1933, this was more than a private celebrity appearance. he was here on a mission of his own in good at home, but that old address to help with the crown prince is passing us now. they can be

verified, but they're headed up descending the stairs in the rain. yes. in without him, gunther elvis appeared here. to honor the fallen essay comrade with a wreath even as have many other superiors and leaders of the essay. beulah is ah dr. kobus, as thou speaking with the crown prince. dr. garbage with him corn. ah mister sasha, next period that's important was the day of pottstown on march 21st 1933 schmidt and which includes the great pseudo monarchists both play and the garrison church and pots dont' died. and then later in the coal opera house in berlin, doctor sim, bullish dog stair, it betrayed a symbolic representation of the alliance between the old monarchist forces book symbolized by power upon hinden, brooklyn's. as well as the crown prince,

who is present here with his family of young v. as in this old role puck to she, the home salanza made a symbolically key contribution to this alliance between the old and the new world . i don't want no way of aid dodson hitler's click on the garbage click that hitler's view and gerbils of you, which we know from gerbils diaries of the whole insolence as a whole is that they are useful idiots under us in law to do not in other words on those are, these are people we can exploit for our cause and effect. it's kind of up to say was no real mutual respect. i like i was just for the photo symbolizes this alliance of conservative and national socialist, or citizens of etc, without which they would not have been a january 30th. 1933 glasses, genuine ensemble. and i said without that, the 3rd rice would not have been created written by ship to may, otto, hitler would not have risen to power coming and going off to you. and you can

basically see that in this photo what it is. i don't think you should exaggerate the role of the crown prince though, because he is the symbolic figure by vendor court. but by playing such a prominent role home in that he was able to influence almost all the countries. conservatives that i stood as london house, a feature story published in a danish magazine in 1934 reported on the sicilian huff palace during the nazi era . this gift and photo without confidence and per here's a photograph with the crown prince is standing here in the upper gallery as my college tinkle and he's hitting a punching ball. and that was attached to the hook up here and to the floor down here. and so forth and sitting on the sofa against this wall was 3 of the crown prince's children. but his friends, frederick and prince prince, who baptists one and the youngest daughter cecilio and watching their father hid this punching ball

with an hour here in the so called breakfast room of the crown prince and princess . all that fun and were standing in front of a wonderful carving of use, a vakari who did several very outstanding carvings here in the palace. oh, it isn't. and there was also a photo in the danish magazine in front of this panel with 2 of the crown prince's sons doing with who baptists and freed racial and their daughter, also called cecilia by the both princes are wearing as a uniforms and posing for the photographer in front of the heater cover in the breakfast room hateful spotlight open pushed eczema the crown prince sends messages back and forth, but hitler, he sends new year's greeting. sand congratulates the fear her on his birth days as well as on the victories over poland, norway, belgium, holland,

france. but that would be the end of the congratulations. mm hm. and come, then i shall have my son nicholas one can of course ask michelle, what did the members of this family do sign the much more interesting question to me is as a van, what did they not do that for immediate? so if a member of this family had openly opposed a national socialism at any time between 19181945, including prince and 40, imagine at the crown prince had campaigned, not for hitler, but for the republic, the form from or for a moderate form of conservative is and for example, for common work i showed up. so it is not a completely impossible or absurd idea that something like that happened 40. but it didn't. i not very in the family offered no publicly visible opposition to national socialism either before or during the 3rd dr. d. r. c, the from media. com ah

1945 on february 2nd. the crown princess of sicilian hoff is already on her way to berlin's on halter train station. to catch a train to the west. the crown prince is already in bad kissing in for a retreat. or 2 months later, british bombs annihilate potsdam city center. ah, 2 weeks later, the red army enters the city. the end of the war and germany and soviet marshall's you cough walks past berlin's helen soul on monument prussian heritage in ruins. ah, the planned berlin conference of the victors now becomes the potsdam conference of the allies, because berlin was unusable as

a meeting place potsdam is chosen. ah, the large modern sicilian hope palace seems suitable. the regal residence just needs to be quickly converted into a conference center. blue. the shiny leash. hobbies is called concession cecilia and jacqueline crown princess to celia and crown principal. him that probably weren't ready for what was going to happen. bob took dusty. emily caspell caught the americans would invade here. hold on me, not the red army from what a docile got here fun. i also think ought from other palaces that were owned by the family was stored here for lake austin. perhaps also from else palace yard does. how, which was the main palace where the crown prince's family lived in? felicia and julian dusky aguilar got ha on mont vanished to her former high that

they were not prepared to flee on touch on. just took what they needed is hop on go . so this place was filled to the brim. here for me, please, for negotiations had to be created for 3 government delegations and the undisturbed parts of potsdam, their military consultants, security forces, press technicians, and gast participants from france and poland also needed accommodation, middle class and upper class neighborhoods became of restricted military area potsdam architect and preservationist, your glen back knows almost every house here. this villa was reserved for stalin. and he cummins august dancers, daughter aiyona vin colon. you can actually say that the whole historic villa colony her, they all had to get out and advice, have been a day. there were german parliamentarian king commissars with white bandages who

went through the houses and said, and within 2 hours of new lease by a student who hours was given in various sources wants to show from this. and this was obviously also in the minds of those who later wrote it down of soul exclaim, well, not an issue. there was very little time. all happy lived here, help the happy family gotten big in the fur trade and then ran major department store knotted on the door in the cold. for a rug traders, estate wouldn't be good enough for stolen. so the soviet leader agrees to staying in a villa. cecilia and hope palace gets a big red geranium star in the courtyard. again, it is symbolic. soviet property, any stately furniture that isn't needed for

a conference, is removed from the house. the big round table is said to have been delivered from moscow. although others think it was from berlin, the victor is probably don't appreciate the precious palace, horn, solon, and prussia, our history had been a truly sh estie forced a long d. the impression the americans had at the time was heavily influenced by german immigrants living in the u. s. partnership as were many of the immigrants were from the south of germany to, from the, in away from prussia, the part and so they would say to the americans, she says, the main problem in german history is russia. that isn't starts and you have to smash this crush and state watson, one t, the russians, the french and the british also shared this belief when they come to potsdam and 45, some call that prussia was the main target to attack target. they believe they had

to break this state. this military power doesn't mean the tomato question. ah, july 16th 1945, u. s. president harry s truman lands in berlin. gato. he believes he has a trump card in his suitcase against allan. he now has the bomb. the soviets do not 1st test the atomic bomb at an experimental station in new mexico 16th july. sir winston churchill also arrived the same day. a british war time prime minister on call. he just doesn't know yet. ah stolen the generalissimo arrives by train from moscow to potsdam. that's a good 1800 kilometers at the booted 3 boys that there were 3 heavy trains. citizen,

stalin was in the middle y for only bust a body guards, trains were in front and behind him jesus. and they had to cover a route through the soviet union, poland and germany. your money. it yet for this purpose the rails were nailed down to the soviets. wider track, gazed little below guards stood along the track. 8 a 12 men per kilometer was me. that is one and k v d soldier got every 100 meters, they ended. right. so good it, ah, a soviet feature film liter glorifies stollins journey. ah. the film shows him as victor and sieve here, descending from heaven to his troops into the liberated peoples. stolen has finally become an icon stun in the, in the show stool. new styling was in the inexorable process of becoming

a god. he was a deity already in the 1930 s, but he became an almighty some one who could hold the world in his hand, only after the war and going scope was through. that's why the title generalissimo was to below his status for him. i think so. the germs, godlike or simply god of the world were what he felt he had earned world. soviet people, of course, were aware at the time that victory was associated with his name and by being all europe breathed a sigh of relief except for the germans. their guilt was enormous. for them, the conference could become a great reckoning and east of the odor and nice of rivers. the explosion of germans had already begun me. july 17th, 1945 celia health palace. the conference begins, stolen proposes us. president truman is chairman. truman has to be the mediator

because british prime minister churchill and stolen disagree on the future. western border of poland stolen wants to significantly enlarge his empire, but churchill wants to rein him in. but 1st, the issue was the germans and the for occupations. owens, an occupation government. the allied control council is to be installed in my thinking there was broad agreement on most points. the democrats, for example, on the democratization of germany, on the decentralization of germany, and on the knots, if occasion to name just these points within. but it was understood differently in the east and in the west. this she didn't stolen wants to push all of poland westward. poland east must become soviet, germany, thess must become polish. in addition, there's the dispute about the fate of the germans on the other side of the odor and nice of rivers. how many people live there? how many would have to be resettled?

$9000000.00 are only one and a half. and there is also the question of reparations stolen demands, reparations from all for occupation zone. this is vetoed when truman brings his atomic bomb into play with stalin. stolen remains on moved to france, harden both the dispute over poland, future western border. and the question of war, reparations even threatened to derail the conference press photos of the big 3 in front of the palace show none of stollins opponent churchill learned of his election defeat at home. on july 25th, he had to leave the clement as we arrived. he is a week figure during this transition stolen and truman agree on a compromise. ah,

he done in the beach, takes reparations from their own zone, and in return we the western powers, recognised that the polish western border in the future will run along the oda and nice river size. this is as a concession to the soviet union is all that is the true outcome of the potsdam conference, confident ah, the post war order is now on paper, a declaration of intent and an opportunity. the occupying powers, including france, will together be responsible for all of germany. the political reality of the post war years however, goes in a different direction. piece by piece, the iron curtain will divide the world into 2 hostile blocks. germany will 1st be separated by a demarcation line and leader by wall in barbed wire. and germany is divided

into east and west. the potsdam piece resolutions up in smoke. it puts him a conference for kind of times count for the potsdam conference was not a partitioning conference, but it was agreed that the various occupations owns would cooperate within the framework of an allied control council. and i, there were to be central german administration says, and in this respect, the result of the conference basically led directly to the 2 plus 4 negotiations of 1994. not because these negotiations would not have been conceivable at all at the potsdam conference made different decisions, stomach and therefore the german question was kept open until 1999 is not too much . in 1945, the signs pointed to division, an east german land reform, expropriate large landowners for being supporters of the nazis

without compensation and without concessions. the o. the soviets keep cecilia house for themselves. ah, and germans are forbidden access for years. meanwhile, what are the soviets doing in the palace? it's a blind spot in the history of the house. for hon is written back of the potsdam uvm, previously unknown film footage from 1946 sheds light on the subject. busy marshal . so kolowski receives british and american guests at the ceiling and hope me, this is gifts misty conference. that's not the conference proceed, conference hours. that doesn't look like your conference, you know, talking to the women. there are also confusing does that to your son?

that's very interesting. i so then does over co in the high command is here. he is, it needs representative location auto want. and this is one of them is still and mom vice alt. and we also know that global political decisions were made there. i showed dolls and that leads to a claim by the victorious you our imogen. we're not giving that away issue or i would believe so. thus, while it was quite clear to them that they would keep it done, but then that soften ha seattle's doses of device to route. mm. the fifty's. the soviets have left the palace sicilian hoff becomes east. germany's national memorial. ah, at the same time, deep in the west and hacking in the former head of household crown,

prince vill helm of prussia is laid to rest. lou, crown princess cecilia dice, 3 years after him in bavaria o potsdam selling salon palaces are museums when they're not being used for completely different purposes. sicilian huff, however, has a special status. the house is a political museum. part of east germany is historical image. ah, and a national memorial. ah, ah

ah, rosa marie has a sheer devonne, who is a memorial director of sicilian hope when the wall ran through the palace garden. the death strip ran there. right along the shore of young fans a lake. ah ah, i have in mind too long to machine off, nita who i never talked about it in my tours, for example. i was embarrassed to her when you have so many guests at guest, even guests from other countries who don't understand i'm doing that. can't

understand the building of the wool, fusty. what do you say to them? good. but i of course answered any question that was raised catholic today of thought, i didn't mention it otherwise come a means obviously sh. 1980 sex. another soviet leader arrived at sicilian hoff. he came as a visitor, hazardous fuss if not the host could no. i found something at home, but this is obviously gorbachev visits because no, and i remember that so many people had gathered a long gold, which office roots here and stood to by the road passage done. and he had the cars stopped and often shook hands with people. you know, he was a beacon of hope for many and hoffman steger feler 4 years later in early 1990, there were bananas and potsdam coca cola. freshly ground coffee

and the 1st free east herman elections. ah ah . also in 1990 the pot some memorial with the red star was discussed openly. and it future was even put into question. ah, they will so efforts at that time to not only take away the stuff, but also to redesign the room and leaving only the conference call with the rest of the furniture returned to other policies are too few. and they wanted to limit the museums to the conference. all of the controller inside the ah, there were national reflection once the wall fell. germans from west and east were bothered by this room. and the juxtaposition of stars and stripes union jack and

tamara, and sickle in a german palace. i me ah, the right wing isn't interested in discussion and it shows it's a violent potential july 27th. 1990. shortly after midnight. fire alarm sound flames and golf. the large hall, there has been arson in a building, constructed almost exclusively of wood, from flooring to wall panels and roof supports. the pot, some fire department seats, the building i me and finally, a scientific advisory board from east and west take found the palace of capital him pushed on for him in before isn't by the core problem. before i,

before this advisory board even existed, was that there had naturally been a lot of complaints to the foundation to close this exhibition altogether. i need to wake up to some historians who were asked quite prominent historians that at the time to close the place down. we don't celebrate our own defeat alarm. i thought it was an important historical site as well as a palace for potsdam. and i worked hard to ensure that the building would be preserved this, that the exhibition would be preserved often. and that's exactly what happened. the aunt is was and the house actually became a very popular palace. 11 of the most visited palaces in potsdam overall and after this exhibition was redesign b. d 's after my distracted format with annoying and then we look exactly where the ashtrays are and the cigarette packs. with

the kaiser rice, the weimar republic, the nazi era and east germany all left their mark on this house with the whole insole on eagle and the soviet star german history, impression east german potsdam. ah, i called and ah, innovation grade on new ideas and conventions. down what drive the economy, the engine my social program. but do they really may catalyze easier?

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