adrian kennedy adrian this tower was supposed to demonstrate the achievements sapir you already would say communist east germany did it really well there is testimony to east german engineering but i have to tell you not only east german engineering because some of the components have to be imported from the west who are example the wind came from belgium the elevators from sweden and most troubling of all this thing the steel show. from west german company over the disco ball there so this was a this was a west german disco actually secretly and as a propaganda tool for east germany in some ways the tower kind of backfired didn't it in the way because berlin is very quickly noticed that when the sun shone on and it sometimes formed the symbol of cross so they gave the building the nickname the pope's revenge socialism of course did not told religion in high regard and the tallest buildings in the area out till then had been churches legend has it that the communist was so incensed about the cross problem that they considered tearing the talent down but this is just legend is actually really quite little evidence to suggest that the communists or it. such a great problem but that does make a good story doesn't it the revolving restaurant in the big tower that was a pretty big hit with these germans wasn't it yes it was some suggest it has more to do with the fact that you got amazing and the red views of west lane. there was a joke going around at the time that if the t.v. tower collapsed while you're having dinner something not considered so unlikely that you actually get lucky and and in the way lucky enough to be having dinner in a collapsing tower let me get this straight the tower is celebrating its birthday on october 3rd this in germany is a big holiday marking reunification of germany but the tower itself was actually built to mark the birthday of communist east germany which would be on october 7th that's why and it did actually open to the public on the 7th but it was. on the 3rd fortunately. coincidentally became day if you know the unification and. has become something of a symbol of unification of the young but they hadn't and they need the site stepped the thorny issue that it was actually built to commemorate the founding of the state because they're much more convenience day it's a commemorate this for the present germans the way to make this a monument for everyone and not just for the former communists thank you adrian kennedy so much for giving us that insight into germany's highest structure thank you. and crossing the iron curtain back to the west now it was the height of rock'n'roll and no one captured it quite like photographer norman see after brief careers as a soccer player and a doctor she became a celebrity photographer catching the attention of the stars with his wild and rowdy photo shoots and their exhibition here in germany pays tribute. sex drugs rock n roll i continue to turn a embodies the spirit of the seventy's like no one out and 975 photographer norman siegel captured the energy in the studio as you can see in the background there's people around so norman all he turned to sessions into parties and he just would be doing a session and invite everybody off the street in that can you imagine there were $200.00 people. and just getting crazy it was. like joni mitchell. singer van morrison what you. are comedian steve martin. so he was developing this technique of how to get these s