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ah, my name is staying milka. stay and you know me as the almost fearless dw travel reporter. and today i'm in the german spy museum. well, among other places, because this time i'm on a special mission for you to be laurie book with isn't really cheap umbrella. it's wet, great and cold. typical winter weather in berlin. what's there to do at this time of year? to day, i have a few cool. at the hot tips for you. i had to the tropics, get a sense of spring in the botanical gardens. i turn up the heat. i'm going to try a red hot version of a traditional snack and extreme chill out. even the glasses in the berlin

ice bar are frozen. ah, climb in berlin as you've probably noticed. and i'm checking out the news, viewing terrace in the german capitol. it's on the roof of the humboldt forum in the mid to district. it's a great location for taking in the sights with the city where the conditions are and so ideal today, but we're making the best of it. berlin is actually always worth the trip. well, and the advantage in winter, the city is relatively empty. so now you can see many of the attractions that are overhung by tourists in the summer. at your, for example, the what form or should i say the berlin palace. it was severely damaged in

world war 2 later, blown up and only recently rebuilt. most of the facades have been rebuilt. true to the original. but on this side, the building is more 21st century. the new old palace opened in 2021. it was named after 2 brothers from berlin, the scientists, alexander and vin, him from whom boyce inside it looks contemporary. the homewood forum is a modern museum building with a variety of exhibitions a little to for you at mission to the humble forum and most exhibitions is free. you can get your ticket on line or at the counter on arrival. i'm going to start my tour in the palace cellar. here you can still see the old

wooden foundation piles that used to support the building. they've since been replaced by concrete versions. oh, these are the old castle foundations. it's origin stayed back to the 13th century. first it was a monastery. later, a palace. it's been part of berlin, cityscape for centuries, but it's reconstruction. has been the subject of much controversy. ah, on september 7th, 1950. the war ravaged berlin palace with demolished on orders of east germany's communist rulers. it didn't fit with communist ideology for over 2 trees, it had served as the official residence of prussian kings and german emperors. now,

the landmark building in berlin center was history. in its place, the communist authorities built the palace of the republic. it housed the east german parliament and was the center for arts and culture. all that came to an end with german reunification in 1990. the building was immediately closed as it contains large amounts of asbestos. a debate began over how to redesign the area some thought to keep the palace of the republic and the woman against some of the others. wanted to see the old prussian residence, rebuilt even erecting a tarpaulin, depicting a full scale painting of the building. in the summer of 1993 a possible 3rd option of building something completely different was dismissed from the start. on july 4th, 2002, the german parliament voted in favor of rebuilding the overland palace. the communists, palace of the republic was torn down,

and architects were invited to submit their ideas for the new building. the design put forward by italian architect franco stella was chosen. the outward appearance stuck closely to the baroque original, but the facade on the eastern side was a modern building. in june 2012, the work finally got under way. the federal government contributed 590000000 euros a further 100000000 euros for reconstructing the baroque facades, was raised through donations. 9 years later, it was complete. in the summer of 2021, the humboldt form opened to visitors from all over the world. with ah, the humboldt forum has many exhibitions i've chosen to visit the ethno logical

museum. it has artifacts from africa, from the south seas, from south america. they are the source of a lot of controversy and have hit the headlines repeatedly because many objects come from former german colonies. so the question is, did they come to berlin lawfully, or were they stolen by the colonizers if stolen, don't they have to be returned? one prominent example is a sailing vessel from the island of luke and papa, a new guinea. it is the last of its kind. how do you build such a boat? the knowledge was lost with the people who became victims of violence perpetrated by german colonialists in 18. 82. i have a few questions for the museums director sent him out of how do you deal with the objects that were not required legally? do they stay here or do they get sent back and here, what are the needs work?

rebuke owns or forcing all if we discover through our research that an exhibit was taken illegally from us. we approach our partners with either 3 national embassies or through local museums and the other country to ask how we can proceed together became with on with why the for decent and how many objects here are stolen. how many are not as fish caught on visualization? those can be, as we can't say yet of him, because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing or not. but everything that left the original countries under colonialism is now obviously subject to more intense research about false, but not everything from the colonial era was necessarily stolen young context. even at that time, there were instances where items were voluntarily transferred, sold or gifted or side. although, of course, all that happened against the backdrop of certain power structures went up some moto, this was looked upon as haste. this is so if it turns out that most of the davidson were stolen, as for might, the museum gradually empty out over time olson. this is lucille me to take my lead

hazard gave up and also this was the only new i don't think that will assign us. i see him. we have a huge collection around half a 1000000 artifacts blunder. and that's not including intangible cultural assets yet. so you're only seeing 2 to 3 percent of the collection auto socket. this is a research institute there class and with some of the artifacts, right? even though we're transferring ownership clause, we still need to keep them here so we can research them together. good by them, so not everything is being returned completely. and that's not the focus of discussion right now. so only moment it is a ppo, meaning what about the high profile artifacts like the bowl we know that was taken illegally lies my what will happen there? let me see here also assume we establish contact both with the descendants of the original winners for and with the government of papa and new guinea. the government said it's proud to have the boot here as a display of its national culture since i'm in the community says it wants to recover the expertise because up there they asked for an invitation to berlin, so they can study it and build boots like that again,

canada income that we to unfold fernandez, bought bunker. as you can see, the response varies great ownership. but so visitors are coming soon, douglas profound. mm hm. absolutely replying to have partners come from manas from the lift community, which will lead to book building projects. there we and we hope we can be there when the boat is reconstructed, the sports reconciliate of the and lots of on the asthma. logical collection is just one of a total of 6 exhibitions in the home with forum. so if you want, you can spend several hours or even days here. i continue my tour on an e scooter. i can't be bothered to walk in this weather. i am riding along the onto the olympic boulevard to the brent burg gate. then i turned left and i'm at the pots them up, that's the sections of the berlin wall serve as a reminder of the decades of german division and the cold war just around the

corner is the germans by museum. one of the james bond for a day in this museum, you can teach and learn all sorts of things about agents and spies in the movies and in real life fluency. macowski shows me some of the most exciting exhibits here zone does. this is one of the most famous chapters like history of espionage as it was, we have 2 of the famous on enigma machines used by the germans to include messages at the british managed to break the code during the 2nd world war, which historians believe shortened. the war by 3 to 4 years after the 2nd world war came the cold war, hey, day for secret agents. here you'll find the recreated version of the delaney coverage between berlin and potsdam. the soviets and the americans used the bridge

repeatedly to exchange spies. they had captured but espionage is not just a male domain. catholic, i say that there were always more female agents and the movie suggest mcevoy the secret police and communists east germany actually developed a bra camera in figure. second was also update if the lens was placed here and then also there was a little hint and the remote trigger was concealed in a pocket portal. so you could photograph the handover of secret documents, for example, a photograph you i also found out that no spice don't dr. lamborghini se, but more ordinary cars. this trouble could take photos using, built in infrared technology made in east germany. ashley mc wise, the spy museum here berlin wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others ought to thinking james bondsville. belinda center earlier is the capital of spies and that began during the cold war. the when west berlin,

surrounded by a 160 kilometers a wall, he was in a unique position's gun, a western enclave right next to the soviet bloc, to my not perfect for spying time. so a lot of secret agents were active here. but berlin is still one of the spying capitals today, what i know that germany is very important internationally. yet the german intelligence agency is no back in berlin assigns. if we have a 160 embassies here too. so there's a lot of agent activity going on here. there's at least as much as in london, we're probably more assigned here. what is, where do all the objects on display here come from? do you think we i'm of oxygen, we find them and when we get them collectors and former spies an agent high school, i'm pretty sure when the nice german secret police disbanded some 2 devices with mythics and i was all very chaotic. so now we get calls saying that this or that and the seller and would be be interested once we think that we also work with the foreign and domestic intelligence services today, due to professor ford, they look through their inventory to see what they can release. what's come on?

got none of the night. technology didn't just stuff the data, the game of came lawyer techniques on doesn't take us 5 of us at the end. another challenge awaits me. the laser maze. i'm not allowed to touch any of the laser beams and i only have 2 minutes to cross the room. tomorrow i'd like a little dad. oh,

oh, i was almost there. i can't quite compete with james bonds, but that was fun. now it's time to get back to nature from puts them up lots. i can take the s bond line one directly to the dalin district and the botanical gardens the right is just half an hour. ah ah of course in summer you can wander around the large outdoor grounds. now in the cold season, 15 glass houses are more inviting. ah, i'm starting in the tropical house. it's a ball me 22 degrees celsius. i'm here. perfect.

it's so warm here. i don't want to go outside i'm with an expert guide francisco who is going to show me a few highlights. yes, this is a giant bamboo, the not just bombay specific areas. this is that the highlight here and foremost if, if, if i one of our highlights, it almost touches the ceiling in the tropical house is 23 meters high. so it's big country. ah, yes ma'am. this is a palm tree known as the sea cope not tied. the seats came to us from the same channels. it has the launch of seats in the world. and it also looks like a storm is exactly like a large town. and that's what the palm grew from. ah, and here's a blossoming liana as well. i won't touch it, but can i smell it?

i nothing blue the cactus world is also fascinating. oh, this is the golden ball cactus. it's over a 100 years old. isn't that so this is a communion house that you can see and smell the notch. blossom is like this one all back mass morley flowers. that's a japanese camelia gives us water and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house? i was vicky so i yes, politically. draw a lot of visitors in winter time. it's nice to have blossoms here. we're reading outside it's winter, but here it spring from january through to april. you have a mass after hours of the said, begin to tyesha with

take a look around it, spring in berlin, in the middle of winter. ah, ah. wanted check in. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. what are the best places to go you of the journey? the destination right? follow a travel guide on youtube. most romantic spot check. best tip for foodies. check. as well as the coolest culture. 1000 years old and a mythical world heritage site. d. w. travel on you to like this way. ah,

time for a bite to eat. i've come to us last ross in the district of wedding to a courier worse stand. that is supposedly the spice is in town. take a look of that. men are allowed to drive carrie worst is a typical berlin, fast food that can be found on every corner. it's brad for a sausage with curry sauce. it's sometimes hot, but really, really hot. and i love spicy food. here on austin, west author. they offer sources with 10 different levels of spiciness rated on the scoville scale. at level one, it has 11000 at level 10. it's 7700000 schofield. oh man is lives really mean? long speech runs the snack bar. okay. if the hose and light hearted coffee and now i really love it, it's quite addictive somehow. so while trying to come up with a name for the stand,

i decided korean chilly fit well. and that's how it all started tuesday or from your 10 sauces level 10 must be incredibly hot. have you tried it yourself? i thought there was no problem. i've tried them all. now have you on the doors, you didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for everyone the same life when the 10 is just fine. got got central my. has there ever been a case of someone overdoing it and having a physical reaction? yes, they can affect your heart rate and blood pressure. the most extreme reaction that's when your body cramps up, so that it's difficult to move your hands and legs bite. it passes after 2 or 3 minutes. is the body's protect to function without telling you to stop. letting you know that it gets i'd aside from that's enough reason as me. then what about customers from mexico or india that we're used to hot food? which much do they laugh at your sauces. hunger then also as a genuine last year when it's not when they get to level 10 of them,

5 or 6 is okay. but after that, it's extreme, even for them or that i, i exactly, i love how to who to go, and i'm always happy to get an extra chilly oil or flakes with my meal junior. like you said, it's addictive. so i found that out to, you know, and so i mean, what level would you recommend for me for fear when i've seen it boulevard, i'd say start with 5 monopoly, right? you can always add to it oven at all once you've got it in your mouth. that's it. then it hits you as low as to start slowly and add more space if it's too mild an event, it's america. we are not. okay, okay, i'll give it a try my all enjoy. hello. hi. i'll take if egon sausage with sauce number 5 for food. yeah, humming up. yeah. i, i can't go wrong with medium's vice, can i? but maybe i'll risk a bit more of the food that i've got. number 5 on it. and separately,

i've given you some of the eights on the 7th. okay. i am a little afraid. ah no. mm hm. this is number 5 is all right, so i think i'll continue with 7 and 8. ah .

is getting warmer and that's a good thing in winter. and now number 8. 0, good. well, i'm enjoying it, but at the same time it's kind of painful. ah, and it's getting worse right now. that's it for me. others can try. number 9 and 10. i quit.

ah, after a short break, i had for my last stop for the day the ice bar near alexander plats the manager is expecting me in the bar videos of a boat trip or projected on the walls. definitely unusual. be a thing. yeah, i guess if they tell the story of the honda, a german explorer ship that was sent to the north pole, the late 19th century will become stuck in the ice dime i speaking to believe i will say the bonfire crew had to leave the ship aloft they camped out on the sea ice and drifted through the arctic ocean for $200.00 of days at hog. but if not, we'll omega team it true story of yep, a whole tree hook me up and we tell the story here. so here we go. that's her father. i can pull in there. i know the year is

1869 as we bought the honda. 4 before long we are informed that our ship is trapped in the arctic and being crushed by masses of ice. we have to jump ship, but not before putting on warm clothes. and that's when we enter the ice bar. you can see it, but i can feel it. it's really cold here. minus 10 degrees celsius. a cool tip also for the summer. ah, by the way, the original expedition had a happy end. the crew made it to greenland and later returned home as heroes of the on the, to the honda of john, that one

a long day from the tropics to the eternal ice. i had it all. those were my berlin winter tips for you. i hope you had at least as much fun as i did well. bye bye. see you next time. ah ah, ah, ah ah ah, ah, with

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