i did of use use these lab reports and so i'm live sick of mex check in visit some of the landmarks along with the course of the dismantled band in was i eddie micah jr. stay with us. i'm on use of the top of the out the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with you production? here's a heads up. so the really indeed much now on youtube all over the were. 1 this used to be the symbol for the cold war and the separation of germany and east and west portland. well, construction on and started on august, 13th of 1961. that's exactly 60 years ago. that's why this time i'm in berlin.

even though the wall has now been consigned to history, there are still remnants of its scattered around town. today i'll show you where to find them and the stories they tell. for 28 years, the wall divided berlin kept families and friends of parts and brought great suffering upon the people. there was heavy surveillance and many escape attempts from east to west. and the tragically, the there were a border crossings between east and west berlin. one of them was this one page of looking on november 9th of 1989. been say the wall came down this quarter of crossing at bonham. estrada was the 1st to open and the news spread like wildfire, and just one out were 20000 people crossed from east berlin to the west. legally

that is to this day, this is one of the greatest moments in german history. this commemorative stone was built out of an original piece of the wall and the wall trailed, has thoroughly transformed the area today. this is a paradise for cyclists through nature lovers, but until 1989. this was the depth strip. a no man's land between east and west for the wall was 155 kilometers long and enclosed west for lynn. so i have a lot to cover, but i won't be doing it on foot. you can find these kinds of scooters on every corner. nowadays, you just need an app at all we go. the

my 1st stop is brandenburg king, definitely berlin's most famous monument and the symbol for freedom. during the cold war, it was right behind the border in the soviet sector of the city. probably the plot is today, a popular spot for tourists from around the world, but back in the day it was off limits to the public it's difficult to imagine when up until 32 and years ago there were surveillance towers and tank traps. here. with an app called mile a are, you can see exactly where the wong used to run to an uninterrupted be just one day later, the 1st will was built the

company. yes. 2 decades of good vision of the moving onto a lively transportation house with skyscrapers, hotels, office buildings and restaurants when germany was divided, this was actually the broadest strengths of the desk. almost all buildings in the military right zone were torn down. and here too, you can find remnants of the wall this is arguably the most famous remaining part of the berlin wall, east side gallery, and the longest 1.3 kilometers, run along the rivers play. after the wall came down, 118 artist from 21 countries painted the eastern side of the wall. the most famous

works of the top on crossing through the wall and the fraternal kits between leon impressed enough and electronic of the not far from here. the old, the bomb branch crosses the spring back in the day. it was the only way to get some parts for it in the west. so freely sign in the east. next stop checkpoint charlie the most famous border crossing. here i need the mood of the berlin wall memorial. you can see how huge the order process and why is it stretched over to i live as we don't have various check in stations yet. the empty allies guard house in quality, we retained its my division is warm for light franklin street. i made over. i wanted to go over later, a metal container,

lots of symbolism and lots of irony. the old anything remaining here today is a replica of this provisional allied controlled booth. the g d r's, massive border complex is log on to the checkpoint. charlie, so fame is why has everybody who comes to berlin heard of it enough for them to take one tablet cooling. charlie became famous you to an event that took place here 60 years ago. here in october, 1961 and the american and soviet tanks faced off here during the hottest phase of the cold war. those images went around the world and made this place famous, meant that fame has lasted to this day as before, the keys and get 3 as there are a lot of tour that's around, it's a huge attraction that's named in every berlin guide. but there are critical voices to alleging that it has become a sort of disney land that it has little to do with the history of the places. how do you feel about that?

that issue isn't as far as and souvenir shops we see here are the downside was big draw this place has on taurus. luckily there are also attractions dealing with its history. an open air gallery on a construction fence on, on the black box cold war exhibition, though they were all designed as a temporary attraction. i, until there was something permanent. but this temporary state has lasted 10 years. so something really invest happen here. now is there any plans that you believe are aiming in the right direction because we didn't check points on the sign has been approved for this plan stipulates i there should be 2 open spaces life and that one can be used to construct a museum that involves the . ringback ringback ringback located in the heart of the capitol, the berlin wall memorial is the main place of remembrance of germany's former

division. the construction of the wall devastated the lives of many and left its mark on ben alice dressing, traces of which are still visible today. here you can see the last remaining section of the border installations and its spatial desk complete with the wall watchtower and depth strip at the wall memorials documentation center visitors can learn about the political and historical events that led to the building of the wall. it's a venture will fall and german reunification found no stresses. sa, plenty of escape attempts the group for linda on to a button or berlin under world organizes the medic towards the bottom, the strongest and both side which were entirely in the french. secondly, the con, the put the board to run along the edge of the building, a funny property line on the roll when top and always of all the team come on foot . but he's jim and the police came and long term building tools from the inside.

and what's the residents could on the inside that it probably is the real property behind them that wouldn't even say reached nicole eod walls not west berlin was so close, but suddenly unreachable. the resulting desperation let many to jump out of their windows. the escape of 77 year old sleet are short, so it was especially dramatic. still mule wasn't broke down to do a tough thing when she wants to jump in with that, they tried to pull her back into the flat the these 2 students down below the value of the jump top, grab the legs and hold it till she fell into the life of the bed and find department. through the basement of an old jewelry, we reached the reconstruction of a very elaborate escaped tunnel. they had fresh air supply, electricity cables and phone lines. the this little cart allow the tunnel builders to bring out the debris. with the health

of the escape facilitators from back in the day, the people here also tried building a tunnel themselves of around 70 projects. only 19 were successful. this is really impressive. and just imagining that here have people crossing with all their belongings and a child or their children is really incredible. the most tunnels led from west to east and ran as deep as possible. so the communist intelligence wouldn't be able to detect them with their acoustic tracking devices. what did people do with the debris? it must have been hard to hide, expecting. yeah, that's, that's be stored in the cellar where they did the taking the wherever. a 1st load seller of them was ordered, where in the end, just narrow pathways and also they dumped the bond wooden walls which reached the ceiling. it was a real captain, miles came between the stones, even for the call to the escape. health of the will sometimes one side, one,

sometimes the other but not all. the tunnels here are replica so that's the original escape to my last stop is mellow pack, while elsewhere the course of the death strip can hardly be followed here. it can still be clearly traced and the elongated shape of the park. a meeting chris charles, were back in the eighty's. she lived in west berlin. she moved back to her native u. k. and returned to berlin in 2013. now she's part of the friends of my little pocket, so see ation. what makes this play smell of boxes, specialty you? it was to the trunk solutions. what happens here? it's just in kits incredible. um is this the germans called it to test strips? it was the space between the 2 rolls between those tools. what was the 1st thing about this? it was, it was

a top dog of dogs patrolling um, it was about keeping people policy. it was, it was awful. the 1st time i came into this place, so i just, i couldn't believe it. uh, i just actually realized it had been landscaped into a park. i was just amazed science, a saucer. theresa, what your thoughts as somebody bought this, it takes care of the place. well, this supplies a sound sense of most pop. what do the friends of smallpox do? return the cost and they'll just choose somebody. we look up those trees as well to some extent of the playgrounds. and, but we also to him because of that sphere rest of the place and got excited so much just like it. this place is now ever saying that they walked into the full and instead of in about the pricing people keeping them, i've talked about death. it's about bringing people together. it's about lice. oh

no, it's just for fun. and you can see that feeling is shared by many others. for 20 years, the wall divided the city in berlin, germany and the entire world. this period of time will never be forgotten. and it shouldn't be because remembering it's crucial to keep the past from repeating itself. so if you ever happen to find yourself in berlin, make sure to take some time to explore the history of the wall. and then a little deeper into berlin's fascinating history. we only just started scratching the surface, see you next time somewhere in germany. the kind of always in signal to stop

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