or the 5 years after the fall of the berlin wall, forgot everything and all the latest information around the clock on our website. but things are moving fast this week. and its d. w dot com. thanks for watching. the . i want to tell you something. it's a bear with me, my on raising awareness of h o d and on and we're still in test shane assignments and we need to break out of and i want to tell you something how to tennessee. chris starts november 29th on dw this year. marks 35 years to the fall of the burden, what it wants to buy the burden in germany for decades, bringing misery to many people. so what's left of it today?

to be honest, there aren't many traces left, but they do exist and you can visit them. for example, i have a guarded border point for 3rd world war almost broke out. a village that the wall to and have known as little burden. and we meet one of the artists who transformed the berlin wall into a work of are joining us on an exciting journey through history. rebuild was the 5 places in berlin in germany, which will help us understand what is meant to live in a divided city. and country whenever i see parts of the berlin mode today, i have to think of the border between india and pockets. so even though we share a similar culture, it is almost impossible to visit each of those countries due to the political history. when the berlin wall fell in 1989, i wasn't born yet. but later i saw the videos the.

all the many emotional people what seems impossible has come to a peaceful resolution to this day, it is a miracle that gives hope. so let's start exploring the wall in berlin and germany. we started in our 1st location is sick when charlie on phoenix trust, which was one of the most famous border crossings ever. there aren't any original sandbag star guard houses here anymore, but tourist still loved this place. it's hard to imagine today that world war 3 almost broke out here. at the end of world war 2, the allies had divided not only germany, but also berlin into ford. occupations on the western zones were administered by

the us, british, and french. and the eastern zone by the soviets, known as a g, d r. at 1st the vocal still cost of water was that ended when the gigi are build the wall. on august 13 1961, the wall was built and all the rest. berlin was seated us here at chick when charlie american in soviet times drove up. armed with light immunization and stood facing each other for more than 16 hours. berlin and the world to their brit images were shown around the world making checkpoint charlie famous. fortunately, the tax went through the situation. calm down and the wall became a sad part of everyday life. checkpoint, charlie was the border crossing for diplomats and officials for 28 years until november the 9th. 1989. when the wall opened. here i checked when charlie

completely unexpectedly mathias browner. was there, he was 23 years old at the time and captured the evening's events in west berlin with his camera. photos can now be seen in a pop of exhibition. what squares emotions that night is blow, but i am volk system best and the bolt bonds and i am but what vonda this is stuff smoke last month in the of us the so maybe the top will just as all push time on november 9th mathias phone or like so many others heard the unbelievable news. the ged are announced, it would open the walls. perhaps. as soon as that very night he made his way to check when tardy. ddr guards could barely hold back the crowds of this day and the good as the lights on both papa, what do you have created yet? keep this busy. none within the house of gains on your report in these parts here. what else? from east of glucose by

a little from thomas. but i didn't box knowledgeable point to cuz she's to go save you around midnight. the border opened ruffles with yes. all said, you know, you don't get confidence when much these high to the end of the card visa, given event, the guy you spoke to pay, it looks like either incentive or didn't get a file because you wouldn't of the short on the not would you tell them not, or somebody from the home. what sites. yeah. it's been also did it out for insights and people because this that they shouldn't either because they said the lesson, but these were meant type. yeah, that's the comments yet. there's lot much less of the wall, a checkpoint, charlie today, it's merely a popular photo spot. but you can find out what the, what actually look like in other places. are 2nd stop is the memorial and burn hours trust. it consists of a large opener, exhibition kind of documentation center. these will

show where the wall one stood mainly through the middle of bernard shots and the houses on one side of the street were in the west and the other, the east. and in between stood the one. people lived only a few meters away but were allowed to reach each other. when the wall was built over night on august, the 13th 1961 displayed people jumped out of the windows under an hour shots. their houses were in the east, but the street was in the west. in the following years, the houses in the border street work here, the big top and finally do modest. over the years, the simply was became a sophisticated border fortification system. you can get an overview from the documentation center, but now is joseph is the only place in berlin where you can still see the old

border strip. this stretch of the wall was redirected in 1998. this from up here you can see that there were 2 balls, design emission shows what it looked like between them the water surface. frankie, late at night. this is where the g d. r border guards shot at those trying to escape in the west. the border was known as a district, it was secured for these barriers and steel formats coverage and 14 centimeters, 6 bytes. and this is the berlin vall, as we know it today. 3.6 meters high. the last barrier before best squared, it was almost insurmountable. many who wanted to free to do is to freedom looked for other options. this path leads to one of the legendary escape tunnels that people use back in the days. there were several escape tunnels done by doors in west berlin and who wanted to help. one of the longest dates back to 196457 people

made it to freedom before it was discovered. today you can visit a blinker and burn ours johnson but there wasn't always a happy ending. 140 people died, either by being shot or from accident that occurred by trying to escape at the burden. but the memorial, the knowledge dresser is very moving. since it's a stars, reminder of the one strategic history of the city. the in our 3rd spot is completely different. it's colorful, tearful, and original. the east side gallery is 1.32 meters long, and the spaces that are just from all over the world after the fall of the water, it is inside one of the largest. so when they are galleries in the world,

it's just want to walk along here and look at over a 100 paintings. each one is different in special, in its own way. the one is the most famous bureaus is often referred to as the fraternal coast, but i just to meet you school. but it shows, area chronicler and unit vision of the heads of the state of the t. d r and the soviet union kissing it represented the strong relationship between the 2 socialist to the west where the nurse had always been to their side of the was of course this was strictly forbidden on the east burden side. and the wall was barred on to 1990 i made sure so guessing the wave of from cuba. she's one of the archers who transformed part of the east berlin side of the wall into a street art gallery. there is still

a southern part in the g d. r. at the time measured professors told her about the east side gallery project. she even brought me here, originally sketched from 1919 she used to do apply to participate in the process. it was an exciting time, full of opportunities and changes and she was right in the middle of it. the length of the township area is a h and for down 2nd. yeah. and think that a model think that will morales a model, guest off simple. the info, home data models, and then he has a lot of things to look and say to him, do i mean, what do you i don't persona to get in on? i like that. yeah. put on there because he now e done it, but it's just, i mean, they told me to give you a call. get pulled up and try you guys. we are now leaving berlin. i'm driving to

our 4th location, a place called point alpha. this us opposite ration post was on the border of former west germany, exactly between the present the states of syringe here and his voice also was considered a major hot spot in the cold war. and that's because the us troops were certain that the sole reserves were to invade the west. there wouldn't bid here. the terrain is religious except so during the surprise attack, soviet troops could have penetrated very quickly and deeply into west germany. that's why the americans, foods and observation forced right here as close as possible to the ddr border fortifications. this us watch dollar is only 50 meters away from that g d r. what colors stationed in the us comp for soldiers of the black horse regiment. their assignment in the event of an attack was to defend the area

until reinforcements arrived. it was a powerful unit on the allowed to drive up to this red line in the account. this crossing, it would have been considered a provocation and could possibly have triggered a war. this us last starboard wasn't built until 1985 back then nobody expected that 4 years later, the cold war and the division of germany would be history. the, the 1st and last stop on our journey. nice on the border between 3 and you and the very yeah, the small village of more language about 50 people live here. some are bavarian, others to engines separated on the, on paper by an administrative border. but that had never matched the range of the same school, the same bars, the lived worked and celebrated together. the small stream has always been the

natural border between the tutoring. yeah. and bavaria. and it was never no problem on 21945. when the allies divided germany between themselves, suddenly westmore lavoy, it was in the americans or what ceased more than avoid wasn't the soviets on the administrative border had suddenly become a national border. separating friends and families. people from the western part of the village could no longer go to the same school or far because favor now in the east. it was also forbidden for people on opposite sides to wave or even read each other. this eventually became impossible anyway. as the border, fortification square extended, pushing people farther apart, american soldiers, nickname the place. little berlin. high novaire was 19 years old when he, like all young men in east germany, started military service. in 1968, he was stationed to your inward level. his job was to prevent people from escaping

to move on a little bit more expensive. that's come kind of then the most of the, of the so news i was miss watson divided by holding this into your last monday about the class. the i'm heading of out of michigan. fortunately, he never had to make that decision. when serving in the army very fell in love with the woman from sooner and you got married and never left. he wasn't more level on that happy day in 1989. when the wall came down with the log and phone as well as the north side of the store findings in less than this was in the sooner the feel of a one insight in fluffy, have done was i will deal hostage be flight. the gus flows mistake and what's, what's left in this, in the house as if it pays and fish, you know, to decrease the, we know on this was a 0 unless, you know, this going to with our search for chris is

a fish for 35 years after the fall of the wall in berlin, germany, have you ever visited one of these spaces? let us know in the comments the bus. so to and of course is go together, which course as providing reliable transport and the most inaccessible places. so it makes sense that horse race, but it also plays a pipe in bustle to culture, the royal cup in the 7 town of my highest, hopeless. so to bring with lamb to this national past time. but 1st, let's see what else is coming on this. so today we get the low down, unlike one, got the famous cuz stuff of bread is so beloved by the people of kinshasa. find out how to be now, it'll be on my from gonna send a brace, individuality, an african identity through his lens. and we may tell them our teams from angola is .