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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 am on a special mission for you to release or re hook 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 and 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 home. what forum in the mid district. it's a great location for taking in the sites 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 over run by tourists in the summer. at your for example, the white forum 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 humbled 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 they've since been replaced by concrete versions.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 its reconstruction has been the subject of much controversy. ah, on september 7th, 1950. the war ravaged berlin palace was 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 precious kings in 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 a center for arts and culture. all that came to an end with german reunification in 1990. the building was immediately closed as it contained large amounts of asbestos . a debate began over how to redesign the area. some fought to keep the palace of the republic and a woman against them. 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 993. a possible 3rd option of building something completely different was dismissed from the start on july, 4th, 2000 to the german parliament voted in favor of rebuilding the old berlin palace. the communist 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 broke 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. the humbled forum has many exhibitions i've chosen to visit the ethno logical

museum. it has artifacts from africa, from the southeast, from south america. they are the source of a lot of controversy and has 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 loop in popular 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 some to my help. how do you deal with the object? is that we're not required legally, do they stay here or do they get sent that?

and here, what are the needs work, rebuke villains, 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. you have to ask how we can proceed together, became with ahmed by the for, isn't that how many objects here are stolen? how many are not efficient? because when we finish, those can be, as we can't say, yes of. and because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing cannot, but everything that left the original countries under colonialism is now obviously subject to more intense research up false, but not everything from the colonial era was necessarily stolen young context. even at that time, there were instances where items were voluntarily transfered sold or gifted or side . although of course, all that happened against the backdrop of certain power structures went up. some must hope this was looked upon as haste. that's it. so if it turns out that most of the exhibits were stolen from, might the museum gradually empty out over time, open as of museum with its like my little that grace of and also was the only new i

don't think that will house i know that seems 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. also, elizabeth, this is a research institute there class and with some of the artifacts life, even though we're transferring ownership clause, we still need to keep them here so we can research them together 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 boat? oh, we know that was taken illegally lice. my what will happen there? me see, haggard was so it was he and we establish contact both with the descendants of the original winners and with the government of papa and you guinea, the government said it's proud to have the boot here as well as a display of its national cultures and so i'm, the community says it wants to recover the expertise with eudoxia. they asked for an invitation to berlin, so they can study it and i build boots like that again, can all of those organ that return from fernandez, bought bunker, as you can see,

the responsive eighty's, great dollars. but so visitors are coming soon, focused the family em 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, go sportswear, constantly under the unless vaughn the f melodic a 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 wanted a little boulevard to the brandenburg gate. then i turn left and i'm at the puts 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 german spy museum. one, a b james bond for a day. in this movie, 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 zoned. athens is one of the most famous chapters that history of espionage. we have 2 of the famous on enigma machines used by the germans to include messages around the british managed to break the code during the 2nd world war that 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 a recreated version of the delaney coverage between berlin and potsdam. the soviets and the americans use the bridge repeatedly to exchange spies they had captured.

but espionage is not just the male, the main think i'll say that they were always more female agents and the movie suggest makin via the secret police and communist east germany actually developed a bra camera in figure. here condos are also affective. the lens was placed here and then also i didn't, and the remote trigger was concealed in a pocket portal. so you could photograph the handover of secret documents. for example. i photograph yet. i also found out that no spice don't dr. lamborghini s but more ordinary cars. this trouble could take photos using built in infrared technology mate and east germany. hashem, you're wise, despite museum here berlin, i wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others for thinking. james bondsville banana center or linux, the capital of spies. and that began during the cold war and in 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 to day. what i know that germany's important internationally as yet the german intelligence agency is no back upper, lin assigns. if we have a 160 embassies here too. so there's a lot of agents activity going on here. there's at least as much as in london, we're probably more or sandria. what is, where do all the objects on display here come from? do you think we are of oxygen? we find the option on that when we get the collectors of former spies, an agent high school. i'm pretty shocked when the nice german secret police disbanded some 2 devices with mexican. i was all very chaotic. so now we get cold thing that got this or that in the seller, and would he be interested on fixing that? we also work with the foreign and domestic intelligence services today, due to professional. they look through their inventory to see what they can release

. that's come on, got nothing. i technology didn't just stuff the data, the game. okay. no take. nissan doesn't take us fight at 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 across the room to load off like a little dance. oh,

oh. oh was all there. i can't quite compete with james bond, but that was fun. now it's time to get back to nature from what's the, my plus i can take the s bond line one directly to the dahlan district and the botanical gardens the right is just half an hour. 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 paperwork if i one of our highlights. it almost touches the ceiling and 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. their seats came to us from the thank shelf. it has the largest 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?

with nothing. the cactus world is also fascinating. ah, this is the golden ball cactus. it's over a 100 years old isn't bad. so this is a camelia house down that you can see and smell the notch. blossom is like this one all back mass moral flowers. that said, japanese camelia is a sata, and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house? i those figures so i yes. politically. drawer lot of visitors in winter potash. it's nice to have blossoms here. we're reading outside it's winter, but it spring from january through to april. you have an amass after hours the civically to tyesha with

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

a courier worse stand. that is the, supposedly, the spice is the town figure 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 the 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? me thank speed 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 not 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 or i thought there was one of you. i've tried them all. now have you on the door? she didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for everyone the same life with her, the 10 is just fine. got god since your mom 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. but the most extreme reaction as when your body cramps up, so that it's difficult to move your hands and legs by 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 smith. and what about customers from mexico or india that we're used to hot food? which much do they laugh at your saucers. ha. then we'll select a new one last year when it's not when they get to level 10,

give them 5 or 6 is ok. but after that it's extreme, even for them or that 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. she knew like you said, it's addictive. oh, i found that out too and all. and so, i mean, what level would you recommend for me? it's very imperative when i've seen it. buddhism, i say start with 5 monopoly, right? you can always add to it above in 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 and then it's america. we are not one. okay, okay, i'll give it a try. mario. enjoy. hello. hi. i'll take a vague and sausage with sauce number 5 for food. yeah. humming up. yeah. i, i can't go wrong with mediums 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 8 and the 7th. okay. i am a little afraid. ah, no. 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. uh huh. yeah, 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. and am i speaking to believe i will for 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 to see him. true story. yup, a whole tree hook me up and we tell the story here. so here we go. and her father, god can pull the nurse off with the year is $1869.00 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 spawn 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 off the on them to the honda of john. that

what a long day from the tropics to be 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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