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ah, my name is shay 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 be laurie book booklet 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 size of 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 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 boyd 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 they've since been replaced by concrete versions.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 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 centuries, 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 a 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 a woman probably made 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, 2000 to the german parliament voted in favor of rebuilding the overland. 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 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

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 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 model. how do you deal with the objects that were not required legally?

do they here or do they get sent? that line here would get it would be so fortunate if we discover through our research that an exhibit was taken illegally from us. we approach our partner so either through national embassies or through local museums in the other country to ask how we can proceed together. and he came with army by the for, isn't that how many objects here are stolen? how many are not as the clout when visualization, those can be, i think you can see them because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing . kind of the, everything that left the original countries under colonialism is now obviously subject to more intense research false, but not everything from the colonial era was necessarily stolen on context. even at that time, there were instances where the items for voluntarily transferred, sold or gifted side. although of course, all that happened against the backdrop of certain power structures went up. some must have stuck on the so if it turns out that most of the exhibits were stolen and my museum gradually empty out over time. and that's the only defect,

melinda stuff. and also, so suppose the only new, i don't think that was diagnosed. that seems we have a huge collection around half a 1000000 artifact and that's not including intangible cultural acids. you're only seeing 2 to 3 percent of the collection. awesome. so this is a research institute and with some of the artifact life, even though we're transferring ownership, we still need to keep them here so we can research them together. so not everything is being returned completely. and that's not the focus of discussion right now. one moment, and what about the high profile artifacts like to bono? we know that was taking the lead life and what will happen there for this me see here we establish contact both with the descendants of the original owners and with the government of papa and guinea. the government said it's proud to have the boot here as a display of its national culture. then the community says it wants to recover the expertise they asked for an invitation to berlin,

so they can study it and the boots like that, against canada, income limits on sultani and has bought bunker as you can see the responsibilities great ownership. but so visitors are coming soon because perform. mm hm. absolutely replying to have partners come from mannus from the lift community, which will lead to book building projects there. and we hope we can be there when the boat is reconstructed. go sports like honestly, other than lots vaughn the f melodic recollection is just one of a total of 6 exhibitions in the home of forum. so if you want, you can spend several hours or even days here. i continue my tour on any scooter. i can't be bothered to walk in this weather. i am riding along the one to the little boulevard to the breton brigade. then i turned left and i'm at the puts them up. that's these 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, a b 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. florida and she macowski shows me some of the most exciting exhibits here zoned athens is one of the most famous chapters that history of espionage shall 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 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 clinical bridge 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 domain. i think they can't say that there were always more female agents than the movie suggest right via the secret police and communists east germany actually developed a brock camera in figure. here condos are also affective. the lens was placed here and then also a little bit, and the remote trigger was concealed in a pocket total. so you could photograph the handover of secret documents, for example. i photograph yet. i also found out that most spice don't drive lamborghini s, but more ordinary cars. this chubby could take photos using built in infrared technology made in east germany as chemical wise, the spy museum here berlin wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others for thinking. james bondo little belinda, center, or loan is the capital of spies. and that began during the cold war,

the when west berlin, surrounded by a 160 kilometers a wallet, was in a unique position's gun. a western enclave right next to the soviet block. am i not perfect for spying sama so a lot of secret agents were active here. but berlin is still one of the spying capitals to day. what i did of germany is very important. internationally, a few of the german intelligence agency is no back in berlin 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, probably more assigned to 3 up. what is, where do all the objects on display here come from? do you think the end of october 1? we find them an option on that when we get them for 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 gifts. 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 more came lawyer techniques are and i something fast fired at 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. tonight i like a little dance. 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 of course in summer you can wonder 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 largest bombay specific areas. this is that the highlight here and foremost difference 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, maam, this is a palm tree known as the sea cope not tied. the 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. oh i won't touch it, but can i smell it? or if nothing with the cactus world is also fascinating. ah, this is the golden ball cactus. it's over a 100 years old. isn't the answer. this is a camelia house that you can see and smell the notch. blossom is like this one all back this morning. flowers. that's a japanese camelia is a sata, and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house. i those vicki so i yes, like they draw a 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 as

a civic 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 with the destination? right? follow our travel guide on youtube. most romantic spot check. best tip for foodies. check. as well as the coolest culture. 1000 years old and in the 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. figure look, yvette men are allowed to drive carrie worst is a typical berlin. fast food that can be found on every corner. it's a breath where 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 the song speed runs the snack bar. okay. if the whole isn't likelihood and now i really love it is quite addictive somehow. so while trying to come up with

a name for the stand, i decided curry and chilly fit. well. and that's how it all started tuesday from just 10 sauces. level 10 must be incredibly hot. have you tried it yourself as as ever trouble? yeah, i've tried them all. now have you on the door? you didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for everyone. the same life and the 10 is just fine. got got central, mike, 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. at the most extreme reaction, as when your body cramps up like 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 knew that and thought i'd aside from that's enough reason that's mittens. and what about customers from mexico or india? we're used to hot food much today. laugh at your sauce is ha, in

a wolf again. no one laughs here when it's not when they get to a level 15 or 6 is ok. but after that it's extreme, even for them. all that i exactly. i love hot food 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 too and all. and so of what level would you recommend for me? it's very imperative when i've seen it boulevard, i'd say start with 5 monopoly that you can always add to it up in a once you've got it in your mouth, that's it. then it hits you as of is to start slowly and add more space if it's too mild and then event as we are not one. okay, okay, i'll give it a try. my, i'll enjoy hello. hi. i'll take a segan sausage with sauce number 5 for food. yep. humming up. yeah. i, i can't go wrong with mediums vice can i? but maybe i'll risk

a bit more so that it's 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 at now. number 8. ah, 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 puts 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 i'm i speaking to believe that mostly the bunfield crew had to leave the ship. hello. they camped out on the sea ice, have drifted through the arctic ocean for $200.00 of days at target. but if not, we'll ami a good spin. true story of ya all true. okay, how can we tell the story here? so here we go. if her father go,

i can hold the next topic with the year is 1869 as we board the honda before long. we are informed that our ship is trapped, 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. mm. 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. by the way, the original expedition had a happy and the true made it to greenland, and later returned home as heroes of the hands on to the honda of john's i

what 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, [000:00:00;00]

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