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ah, my name is stig milka stay good 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. 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 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, or frozen 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 district. it's a great location for taking in the sites with the city. weather 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 overrun 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 online 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 they've since been replaced by concrete versions.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 residents of pression 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 contained 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 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 old berlin. 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 franklin. 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. 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 come to my help, how do you deal with the objects that were not required legally? do they here or do they get sent?

that line here would give you to a review of functional if we discover to 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 me by the for, isn't that how many objects here are stolen? how many are not as clout when visualization, those can be seen because in many areas that joint research is still ongoing and 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 that must have sucker funding. 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 enough. that seems we have a huge collection around half a 1000000 artifacts. and that's not including intangible cultural acids. you're only seeing 2 to 3 percent of the collection. awesome. this is a research institute and with some of the artifacts, 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 for me and what about the high profile artifacts? like the bono? we know that was taking the lead live life. what will happen there? we see you have a few. 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 inside. the community says it wants to recover the expertise to be asked for an invitation to berlin, so they can study it and the boots like that against canal doesn't con them into

announcing the end is bought bonkers. as you can see, the response varies gray ownership. but so visitors are coming soon as possible. 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 vacancy and then lots of on for yes, my logic 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 an e scooter. i can't be bothered to walk in this weather. i am riding along the wanted a little boulevard to the bradenberg 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 german spy 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. mikulski shows me some of the most exciting exhibits here though. and this is one of the most famous chapters like history of espionage. we have 2 of the famous on enigma machine used by the germans to include messages at the british manage 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 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. the main catholic, i'll say that they were always more female agents, and the movie suggest might mcevoy the secret police and communists. east germany actually developed a brock camera in figure. second off to opt out. if the lens was placed here and then also there's a little under trigger, was concealed in a pocket, his portal. so you could photograph the hand over secret documents. for example, i photograph yet. i also found out that no spice don't drive lamborghini s, but more ordinary cars. this trouble could take photos using built in infrared technology mate in east germany. ashley mc wise, the spy museum here. berlin, i wouldn't london be more fitting because of james bond and others for thinking. james bondsville molina 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 . um, so a lot of secret agents were active here, but berlin is still one of the spying capitols 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 agents activity going on here. there's at least as much as in london, we're probably more assigned here. is where to all the objects on display here come from. do you think via auction, we find them option. i'm then when we get the collectors and former spies an agent high school, i'm pretty sure when the ice german secret police disbanded for some to devices with misconduct was all very chaotic gifts. so now we get coal signal this or that in the cellar, and would be be interested once we think that we also work with a foreign and domestic intelligence services today, due to professor ford,

they look through their infantry, the call to see what they can release that's come on, got nothing. i technology isn't just stuff like data game of cam lawyer techniques on doesn't take us 5 of us at the end. another challenge awaits meet the laser maze. i'm not allowed to touch any of the laser beams and i only have 2 minutes to cross the room. i like a little dance. oh,

oh, i was almost there. i can't quite compete with james bond, 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 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 largest bombay specific areas. this is that the highlight here in footballs. favorite if i one of our highlights, it almost touches dismantling. and the tropical house is 22 meters high. so it's bank interesting. ah, yes ma'am. this is a palm tree known as the sea cope. not the seeds came to us from the thank shelf it has the largest seats in the world. but 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 that? so this is a camelia house that you can see and smell the notch. blossom is like this one all back. nass moral a flowers. that's a japanese camelia is a sata, and are these flowers so special that they get their own glass house. i was vicky so i yes, politically. drawer lot of visitors in winter potash. it's nice to have blossoms here. we're renting outside it's winter, but it spring from january through to april. you have an amass after alice said 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 you tube. most romantic spot check. best tip from foodies check, as well as the coolest culture on 1000 years old. and in this world heritage site d. w. travel on you to like this way. ah. time for

a bite to eat. i have 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 brad, we're a sausage with curry sauce. it's sometimes hot, but rarely really hot. and i love spicy food. here on us last author, they offer sources with 10 different levels of spiciness rated on the school vill scale. at level one, it has 11000 at level 10. it's 7700000. schofield. oh man. lives really mean the funk squeeze runs the snack bar. okay. if well was in late hot food 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 or from just 10 sources. level 10 must be incredibly hot. have you tried it yourself? i thought that was one of you. i've tried them all. now have you on the doors didn't. how was the 10? well, it's not for every one. the site life and the 10 is just fine. got got central, mike, has there ever been a case of someone over doing it and having a physical reaction? yes, they can affect your heart rate and blood pressure on the most extreme reaction. but 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, telling you to stop letting you knew that. and if i decide from, that's enough reason that's me. then what about customers from mexico or india that we're used to hot food much today. laugh at your saucers. ha, wilson again. no one laughs here when it's not when they get to level 15 or 6 is

okay. but after that, it's extreme, even for them all that i, i like that 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. oh, i found that out to, you know, 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 phenomenally. i, you can always add to it of in a once you've got it in your mouth, that's it. then it hits you as an, as start slowly and add more space if it's too mild an event as we are not one. okay, okay, i'll give it a try my enjoy. hello. hi. i'll take a vegan sausage with sauce number 5 for food. yeah, humming up. yeah. i can't go wrong with medium's vice, can i? but maybe i'll risk a bit more to say that it's got number 5 on it. and separately i've given

you some of the 8 and the 7. okay. i mean, i'm 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 .

it's 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 plots 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 know because if they tell the story of the honda, a german explorer ship that was sent to the north pole, the late 19th century, we become stuck in the ice dime. i speaking. believe me, i will say the bunfield crew had to leave the ship aloft. they camped out of the sea. i have drifted through the arctic ocean for 200 days at hard. but if not, will i, meg? it's been a true story of the up a whole tree with miss paul. can we tell the story here? so here we go. the time her father go to 5,

then photo next off with the year is $1869.00 as we board 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 sales. a cool tip also for the summer. by the way, the original expedition had a happy end. the crew made it to greenland and later returned home as heroes of the hands on to the honda of danza.

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 with

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