alexanderplatz is, these days, the touristic heart of the capital.e main public square in communist east berlin. so, i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself — and i'm sure for generations younger — there's no recollection of those news events, so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i'm heading down into the u—bahn, berlin's underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u—bahn three stops in that direction had to wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station. they were manned, guarded — you definitelyjust could not get off.

alexanderplatz is, these days, the touristic heart of the capital.be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i'm heading down into the u—bahn, berlin's underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u—bahn three stops in that direction had to wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station. they were manned, guarded — you definitelyjust could not get off. athena kerins leads tours for a group called berlin underworlds, which explores the tunnels and passageways underneath the city. so, alexanderplatz would have been a ghost station. really eerie. what would that have been like? so, for the