the federal republic a few kilometers from the inner german border between tooling in the east and hesson in the west the border separated germany in the whole of europe and the east and west but in 1909 the berlin wall fell and the you know german border was also opened for the last 30 years as she began has again been in the middle of germany. today i want to take you on a little tour along the border between hassett and well visit places that still bear witness to the cold war division of germany and that's victims and we'll find out what has changed since reunification turning a once heavily fortified that strip and so unattractive tourist destination. my journey takes me south always along the former inner german border to the loon region i go past small towns and villages fields and meadows you don't really associate the landscape with terms like cold war or iron curtain but you can get a 90 of what it used to be like at the point alpha museum that lies directly on the former inner german border. in oxford. donny show bumi shows me around the. first the different stages of developme