As a young man in Germany, my first visit to Berlin was in March 1964. At this time, you could still see some bombed buildings from 2nd world war. The most impressive site was Bernauer Strasse =Street. Houses with 5 floors were East Berlin. The walk way was West Berlin. Along the walk way have been crosses of people which jumped from the roof into theit dead before they have been taking prisoners from the guards. Many made it because they have been discovered from the West Berlin fire Department and jumped in a kind of trampoline. Their was also a high platform maybe 20 ft to take a look at the other side. Later all houses at the Bernauer Strasse have been demolished.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Great info! That's sad and amazing, thanks for watching.

@lyfia3779

Жыл бұрын

How old are you sir?

@a2a2a2a

Жыл бұрын

Bro was born In 1950 then went to berlin and somehow LIVED and still he says hes a young guu

@grilliumball

Жыл бұрын

@@a2a2a2a He said he is young is mean that he iswas young that time

@joyogggKids

Жыл бұрын

No way your age must be 150

Those East German helmets were actually designed in 1943 They were intended to replace the M35 stahlhelm, but Hitler thought they looked too ridiculous so that was the end of that

@ph3733

Жыл бұрын

Not true. While the M56 (as seen in the video) was in the same development line as the M35 the development for this helmet started in 1956 and was first used in 1957. So Hitler for sure didn't see it. Actually Hitler forbid the development of new helmets in 1942 but they still secretly researched new designs as the old ones were prone to injuries. One of the proposed designs looked similar to the M56 design (Typ B II) but was never presented to Hitler

@inquisitvem6723

Жыл бұрын

If the wall fell that morning, why did the East German guards stick around especially with tourists going in and out of the East German tomb of unknown soldier ?

I was stationed in West Berlin in 1979-1981. I never thought i would see the wall come down, you really experienced history. We went to the building where the surrender of WW2 was signed, the second one. It was a KGB listening post in the basement. We also went to the Soviet war memorial, the large shapes at the entrance were covered in marble removed from Hitler's bunker. This brings back a lot of memories, thanks for posting it.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's interesting, didn't know that. Glad to share, thanks for watching!

@pullo4132

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your service ! Greetings from Germany.

@eon1779

Жыл бұрын

And how old are you now

@brunokirchensittenbach9294

Жыл бұрын

…At the end the Germans themselves are realizing who are their real enemies, the same criminals who are occupying their territory since 1945 and blowing up their future prosperity and becoming more dependent of their masters Energy sources and establishing the Morgenthau Plan and their desindustrialización and going back to the glory days of the Weimar Republic…🫵🏼🐖💨🇩🇪🇺🇸💩🇪🇺

@ERTChimpanzee

Жыл бұрын

@@eon1779 Trust me! You don't want to know that.

I lived in Berlin from 85-89. I just missed the wall coming down. My wife and I both went to Berlin American High School. Thank you for the memories.

The 80s truly is the best decade in history

@joebidet1330

Жыл бұрын

Agree especially the music

@goodvibez598

Жыл бұрын

To date....

@Rotebuehl1

Жыл бұрын

Why? Would You care to elaborate? Thanks in advance

@Rotebuehl1

Жыл бұрын

Why? Would You care to elaborate? Thanks in advance

@climeaware4814

Жыл бұрын

50s 60s and 70s and early 80s

I was a preteen when the Wall fell. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and seeing it on tv. It was surreal.

I like how this video was an advertisement but it truly is the great decade

I lived in West Berlin in the 70's as a kid as my father was posted there as a member of the British Forces. Yes I was an Army brat!! Those sites are still very familiar to me even all those years later. I also visited East Berlin as well. Brings back memories but as a kid I didn't really fully understand the historical and the political implications of The Berlin wall. I remember several times my father was called out from home on alert all but one of those was a practice alert. That one was a standby alert (for about two days) due to some event unknown to me or my family. To this day my father never knew what it was about. He was a Telecoms Tech with the REME attached to a tank regiment (4RTR I think).

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, same here...As a kid experiencing this, I knew what was happening was important, but I didn't fully understand the historical impact until years later.

@M2M-matt

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne Yep same. I recognise Checkpoint Charlie. Went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum on a school trip. I remember the Lipstick and Powder Puff church with the broken church next to it. Brandenburg gate of course. Unless I was mistaken there was a place called Peacock Island someplace that had tons of peacock on it. All those places seem as real as it was last week to me.

@Steve14ps

Жыл бұрын

@@M2M-matt Pfaueninsel or Peacock Island lay on the Wannsee (lake), it lay just inside Berlin (West), as you correctly stated it was inhabited by many Peacocks. My uncle was stationed at RAF Gatow. I once took a tour on the ferry from Kladow to see the island.

@M2M-matt

Жыл бұрын

@@Steve14ps Ah yes that's it the Wannsee lake. Thanks for that. Great memories! I just remember being fascinated by these Peacocks. I also remember RAF Gatow as I think I went to a school there on the base. I could be wrong about that though. It just rings some bells. I got a rough memory of an old collection of building for my school and going though some barriers and gates to get to it. This would have been mid 70's. I didn't like school much so my memory might be blocking some of it out.

@nicolenicole2389

Жыл бұрын

In case you still don't know: the implications are that the red army was and still is used by the totalitatians on the east block, by any block you want, it doesn't change anything anyway....... And now even using al kaeda as to make more barbary. East germany was raped in many ways by those fanatics. Which for the devil's sake are still wanting the same thing today

Man this must have been so awesome to actually be there, in the physical moment to experience what you KNOW is history.

@Question-Log

Жыл бұрын

Yeah… I wouldn’t say awesome.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@Question-Log I thought it was pretty awesome to be there

@Question-Log

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne Well for you maybe but I know I wouldn’t want to be there or live there during Soviet occupation.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@Mr. ? this video and the rest in the series playlist are from Nov 9th and 10th 1989 when the wall fell...this specific video is shot only hours before the wall fell. That's the historical part of it...

@Question-Log

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne ohhhh, my bad. I thought this was still during the Soviets time, I was confused by those German guards.

I came to East and then to West Berlin from the opposite direction - from Poland,. on several occasions in the 70s. For a Pole it was an impressive but stiff city. I still remember perfectly synchronised traffic lights - from the Gate to Schoenefeld airport we had all greens! Never seen anything like that afterwards.

@skeetrix5577

Жыл бұрын

those traffic engineers desperately need to come to st Louis and tidy things up we got one street that's in front of a couple hospitals that has 11 lights in a mile and it can take stopping 3 or 4 times sometimes more if your unlucky just traveling through them. they are all on timers too so there is absolutely no reason why they can't be synced except the city government obviously hates its own citizens

@alexfeldgrau2097

Жыл бұрын

@@skeetrix5577 Sure it does! ;-)

@directscientific4550

Жыл бұрын

Were you allowed to visit West Berlin the 70s?

@karolw.5208

Жыл бұрын

@@directscientific4550 Yes, we were - Poland was different in this respect. The only catch was that you had to apply for your passport each time and then return it to the police afterwards.

@directscientific4550

Жыл бұрын

@@karolw.5208 Interesting. Did you have to leave spouse and kids behind?

Thanks so much for this! I lived in West Berlin and a military brat. My father was stationed there in the USAF. I was there from ‘81-‘85, and got to do all 4 high school years there. Got to go to East Berlin twice with my father, who like you videotaped, had to be in uniform. I was very aware of everything going on there and old enough to appreciate how lucky I was!

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! We just missed each other, I lived in Germany from 87-90

I had the opportunity to visit East Berlin a half dozen times between 1984 and 1991. I always planned to be there on Wednesdays at 14:30. There was a a full ceremonial parade at that time down Unter Den Linden to the Neue Wache and back with goose-stepping NVA troops and a band playing Prussian march music. It was like going back in time. So cool!

@bd5av8r1

Жыл бұрын

*GDR troops as in "German Democratic Republic" (East Germany) NVA is "North Vietnamese Army" :)

@enlightenedguy2565

Жыл бұрын

@@bd5av8r1 Auf Deutsch auch Nationale Volksarmee (NVA) genannt.

@bd5av8r1

Жыл бұрын

@@enlightenedguy2565 can only like this once lol :)

@-BuddyGuy

9 ай бұрын

​@@enlightenedguy2565Yes they used to call them güks I believe

Thanks for posting this video. I stood on that same platform overlooking the wall at checkpoint charlie along with visiting East Berlin as well. Was in 1987. It's nice to see videos from these areas and from that time.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting!

We used to laugh when we saw those cameras on the news saying that'll never happen here in the states. Pffffff

@shakellw4634

Ай бұрын

Now their every were

I was born on August 16, 1989. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989 I was almost 3 months old at the time. When I watch videos like this I can't help but feel various things. My mother went to live in Germany in the early 1980s when the wall was still up. My sister was born in Germany. I am an American, but I can just feel how significant this moment was. 1989... What a year.

I remember that you could buy all of this East Germany military equipment on E-bay after East Germany dissolved. I bought a pair of these boots, and one of the old great coats they are wearing. I do not have them anymore. Can't remember what happened to them now. Should have held on to them for a collector's item.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

I have chunks of the wall and some other small souvenirs like pins, but boots and coats would be great collector items.

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

It's still easy to get these items in Germany because so many collected them.

@TheRealBillBob

Жыл бұрын

You must mean long after East Germany dissovled. There was no E-bay way back then.

@allwrighty100

Жыл бұрын

E-bay?? Surely that was a while later?

Joke. East-german family drove west in their Trabant. However the car broke down just infront of a Mercedes-garage. The workers decided to help them and find out the engine was kaputt. However they were able to change the motor. Family took off, but after 10 metres car stopped and started to reverse, stopped again an repeat this forward-reverse movement. The father then asked "what kind of motor you put there?" "Well, only motor that we could fit in was Mercedes' wiper-motor."

@evilborg

Жыл бұрын

NICE !!!!!!!!!!!

I remember that night... the wall literally came down.. the people climb 9nto it . And the east German guards did nothing. It was amazing night...

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was!

This feels like time-travel, so cool!

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 80s, Back to the Future style, haha

My wife and I visited Berlin in 2008. It's so strange to see the footage from when the wall was up. In 2008, you could barely tell what was east and what was west. We only saw a few sections of the wall still standing.... Thanks for posting this, this is very interesting.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I hope to return to visit Berlin next year...looking forward to see how much has changed

The Solidarnosc sign was fixed on the Berlin Wall Museum. It was facing east and clearly visible but very few East Germans could see it as on the eastern side there was the restricted border zone, maybe 150 m wide. Access was restricted for service vehicles only, army, police.

Меня всегда манило на Запад. Очарование Западом, его свободой, так и осталось навсегда. Слушал в 1980-1990 годы немецкую волну, БиБиСи, Голос Америки, Радио Свобода.. В Июле 1990 я смог сбежать на Запад. Я подделал приглашение себе в ГДР после долгих мытарств. Покинуть СССР по другому легально было невозможно. Я познакомился с несколькими советскими солдатами, которые убежали из Советской Армии в западный Берлин, воспользовавшись, что границы больше не было. Помню, как один рассказывал, как много недель его разыскивали вертолеты. Он скрывался в лесу. По ночам забирался в немецкие летние домики, чтобы там найти что-нибудь съедобное. I have always been attracted to the West. The charm of the West, its freedom, has remained forever. I listened in 1980-1990 to the Deutsche Welle, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Liberty. In July 1990 I was able to escape to the West. I forged an invitation to myself in the GDR after a long ordeal. It was legally impossible to leave the USSR otherwise. I got to know several Soviet soldiers who had fled the Soviet Army for West Berlin, taking advantage of the fact that there was no longer a border. I remember how one told how many weeks he was searched for by helicopters. He was hiding in the forest. At night he climbed into German summer houses to find something edible there.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story, I'm glad you were able to make it out of the USSR. It's easy to take freedoms for granted and forget how difficult and restrictive life can be for many. I have some additional videos of a trip we took to the Soviet Union as well: kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOZyuca0Bf4-VBbqE6BzQJN

On Nov 8, 1989, I paid a visit to E Berlin. I got to drinking beer with some young folks there, and missed the closing time for the U Bahn to go back, so I had to pass through Checkpoint Charlie. We ran to get there before it closed for the day, as I would be in significant trouble if I spent the night in the DDR without permission. But we got there, just as it was closing, and I got through. The next day, of course, was the day the wall fell. It was an interesting experience, part of my gap year in Europe. June 4 I had been in Strasbourg, and there was a massive demonstration on behalf of the Tiananmen Square protesters. Also a wild thing to just run into.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, great story! We just missed each other, haha

@Bjowolf2

Жыл бұрын

Ah, so it was your "fault" then? 😂 - the East German people just wanted to follow your great example 😊

@michaelf7093

Жыл бұрын

@@Bjowolf2 Next day, I stood on the Wall, by Brandenburger Tor.

@Bjowolf2

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelf7093 Why am I not surprised? 😂 Cool, it must have been amazing to witness that very special historic atmosphere there 👍

Thanks for uploading this.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

You could easily go to east Germany If you did a bus tour that goes from west Germany to Berlin you had to go through east Germany That's what my mum did and everytime she got off the bus on the ddr side they checked her passport

I was stationed in central Germany and my friend and I drove to West Berlin. That was an experience in itself. I was there in 1979 when the wall was still up and also went to East Berlin.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, yes just getting to West Berlin was an experience at the time

@TheRealBillBob

Жыл бұрын

I was stationed there for two years from 87-89 and never got to travel to Berlin. I was stationed in Bamberg, but traveled to Coburg and Nuremberg a lot. I went to Munich for an Oktoberfest. I probably needed to get my Commander's permission and what not.

@chrissmith7669

Жыл бұрын

Lol. When the wall initially fell a bunch of our guys hoped in a car and sped off to join the party in Berlin. Several days later they called our unit saying they were out of money and gas. After we got them home they had the riot act read to them as technically crossing from west Germany to Berlin by road meant they had crossed the border into East Germany without leaves or passes. A pretty big deal normally but in the chaos and euphoria it was swept under the rug.

Thanks for the video. I was stationed In West Germany from 1988 to 1990 (USAF). I separated in April 1990. I never really knew at the time what was going on in Berlin. I did hear a few things about parts of the Wall may be coming down, or the easing of restrictions, or something like that. But I don't know how much I would have appreciated the significance at the time either. I was under the impression (at the time) Berlin was mostly restricted and you had to fill-out a bunch of paperwork if you wanted to visit there. I remember (at the time) I was more interested in visiting Paris than Berlin. I figured Berlin was still mostly being rebuilt after the war. But looking back I can understand things better now.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

We lived in West Germany around the same time, near Giessen from 87-90.

@timothygoddard4675

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne I had to look where Giessen was. The Air base I was stationed at was a distance to the west of there. The Air Base is closed now. Sometimes I still say "West Germany" instead of "Germany." I haven't been back since then. I liked West Germany though. I thought it was a nice place. I did visit Frankfurt, Munich, and Koblenz when I was there.

I was there also.... that morning and by midnight East Germany was defunct. I got to walk into East Berlin by 2am the next morning.... it was historically insane....

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! That is amazing

@evilborg

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne 2:30 this is also were Hitler put his nazi buddies as well. All those bullet holes are from WW2.

@0raj0

11 ай бұрын

East Germany was not defunct until October 1990, when reunification of Germany took place. The fall of the Berlin Wall only meant that the border controls have been loosened a lot (although not abandoned completely) and people could move freely between the territory of GDR and West Berlin. However, both German states (and West Berlin as a special territory) still continued to operate separately as before.

I lived in Ukraine for 20 years. I knew a couple of guys who had served in East Germany for the Soviet Army. They said it was the most boring assignment you could get abroad, with the exception of having access to consumer goods you couldn't get in Ukraine at the time. They had both told me separately that there were a lot of restrictions placed on Soviet soldiers at the time. They had no freedom of movement anywhere within East Berlin nor East Germany. They were mostly confined to their bases. This is not only due to the oppressive nature of the Soviet Government at the time, but to control their soldiers who raped and pillaged at will not only right after the war, but for several months, even longer, after.....

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, great info...Thanks for watching!

@jederwieerwillabersojanuni3087

Жыл бұрын

@Richard Schiffman korrekt 👍

@user-pf7qt7ns6q

Жыл бұрын

В 1948 году солдат Советской Армии снял с танка крупнокалиберный пулемёт, залез с ним на кирху посреди немецкой деревни и стал расстреливать все дома и людей вокруг. Погибло и ранено было несколько десятков немцев. Потом выяснилось, что ранее у этого солдата всю его семью немцы живьём сожгли в русской деревне. Вместе со всеми остальными жителями и другими домами. Данный солдат, будучи тогда ребёнком, чудом остался жив. После всего того,что немцы со своими союзниками сотворили на территории Советского Союза и других оккупированных стран, некоторые горячие головы в Великобритании предлагали всю Германию залить бетоном. Очень жаль,что это предложение осталось фантастическим и не было реализовано. Очень жаль.

I still get goosebumps when I think of East Berlin. Not to mention standing on the wall at Brandenburg Gate.

A Good and Interesting film! Thanks for up loading your part of joining history.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, and thanks for watching!

According to the description, this video was shot the day before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Did you know that the Berlin Wall was going to fall the very next day while you were filming this breathtaking footage?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I think all my dates are off by 1 day. This video is actually the morning OF the Fall (Nov. 9th) before it happened later that same night. In my incorrect memory of the event, I always thought of the next day as the day it was opened since that's when I witnessed all the celebrations. But that was actually Nov. 10th. We had no idea that it would happen, just coincidence that we were there! All my videos in the series span Nov. 8th - Nov. 10th. kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOAS-GOlLtENfneckHXLogY

@DarkFalconAnimations

Жыл бұрын

In 1989?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkFalconAnimations yes, 1989

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

Even the East Germans and Soviets didn't know that the border would open until it happened and that was due to a communications error that night.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@simonh6371 That's the strangest part about all of it...an accident!

Man, that Prussian drill is on point.

@Snov-yx

Жыл бұрын

Prussians are not longer sadly

@Brian-nc1eb

Жыл бұрын

Das steckt bei uns im Blut

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

There is still a chance for Königsberg.

@Snov-yx

Жыл бұрын

@@GrandTheftChris lmao Russians ruined Konigsberg, for example their castle

@jasonscott6174

Жыл бұрын

With the exception of the fisted arm swing. That reflects Soviet influence.

The following day, people were already climbing onto the top of the wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate. I know, because I was one of them. It was a weird feeling, unheard of only a few hours earlier. On the eastern side were about 20 angry East German border guards trying to stare us down. In fact they even sprayed us with water. We answered by offering them a drink of the Champaign we'd brought with us. The day after that, the 10th, people were bringing hammers and pickaxes with them and starting to dismantle the wall. It's utterly mind blowing to know you're in the middle of a history changing event with the whole world watching on.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Did you check out the other video at Brandenburg Gate? Maybe you're in my home video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooODkqOYhpO7gqg.html

@mikethespike7579

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne Oh, thanks! Some fantastic footage! I was there that day among the crowds at the wall. Maybe I'm even somewhere in the footage. The East German border guards shooed the people off the wall for a while, but were later ordered to retreat. The crowds coming over from the east later got bigger with many still wearing their work overalls. There were so many that they were having difficulty getting into Berlin west. Some people told me it took them 2 hours just to cross into west Berlin. What amazed me most was that on that day, 10th of Nov., the east Germans were already removing parts of the wall across the streets between east and west. I mean, they had guarded this wall for 28 years with everything they had and then, from one day to the next, they suddenly decided it was in the way and needed to be removed. That Thursday - that was on the 9th - when I got home (very late) and told my girlfriend what was happening she refused to believe me, she thought I'd spent the evening at a bar and was drunk.

Great video. Great channel 🙌 I remember this. Interesting times.

@sathanas6748

10 ай бұрын

6:46 Statue of a russian soldier kneeling with a machinegun, PPSH-41, at his side

@darkWorkOne

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!

Brings back memories

During WW2, that "tomb of the unknown" had a pair of statutes of German Soldiers in WW1 gear (ironically with an early version of the German helmet used in WW2) standing perpetual guard. After the war, because the statues resembled Nazi uniforms, they were destroyed and replaced with the perpetual guard you see here. They also exhumed and cremated the remains of two WW2 German "unknown" soldiers during the de-nazification process.

@mehornyasfk

Жыл бұрын

How ironic considering the NVA wore basically the same uniforms (aside from the helmet) as the Wehrmacht. Edit: before anyone pointing out that the Wehrmacht soldiers wore closed-collar uniforms instead of what's shown here at 2:30, the NVA only changed to that much later. Early NVA soldiers used to don the same uniform as their Wehrmacht predecessors: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooqZ15SraJjbdJM.html

@the4thindustrialrevolution225

Жыл бұрын

More like De-germanisation period

@robertbrodie5183

Жыл бұрын

originally this was the berlin "night watch" or city guard building and guarded "mitta"

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

@@mehornyasfk Actually the NVA helmet was a design that the Wehrmacht had trialled but never put into service. The early Bundesgrenzschutz wore Wehrmacht uniforms including the helmets to avoid being mistaken for Soviets, I think when the Bundeswehr was formed in 1955 they changed to US style uniforms like the BW.

@Ekatjam

Жыл бұрын

The German "Neue Wache" Did not have statues in front of them. They had soldiers from the Reichwehr perform a similar guard ceremony. It was continued by the Wehrmacht. After the creation of the DDR, the Iron cross center piece was replaced by the eternal flame, an unknown German soldier, a Concentration camp victim and soil from all the lands that Germans died in during WWII. The guard detachment was named after the Bolshevik mass murderer Felix Dzerzhinsky. Today the center piece has been replaced with a weeping mother holding her dead child. On special occasions, The Bundeswehr performs a very similar guard ceremony.

The last time I was in Berlin, quite by accident my hotel was near the old Stasi, secret police headquarters in eastern Berlin and well worth a visit as it is now a museum , another fact, too if you see tramlines, this was restricted to eastern Berlin under communist rule.

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

Trams weren't restricted to East Berlin. It was West Berlin who discontinued them in the 60s, in favor of new bus and metro lines.

@WILLIAM1690WALES

Жыл бұрын

@@GrandTheftChris do not be too pedantic, overwhelmingly trams were only used in East Berlin up until recent times

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

@@WILLIAM1690WALES Sorry I'm not trying to be pedantic, rather replying to your incorrect statements. Tram lines have existed in whole Berlin since 1865. After ww2 West Berlin had more tram lines than East Berlin. It was politics that got rid of the tram in the western part of the city whereas they were kept in the east. It has also nothing to do with communism. Just facts.

thank you!

At 3:05 is the "Neue Wache" that now is dedicated to victims of all wars. Back then it was dedicated to the victims of fascism and militarism and it enshrined not only an unknown soldier but also a concentration camp victim. It now holds a Käthe Kollwitz sculpture of a mother holding her dead son.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Great info, thanks!

I remember these places to this day from my time in Berlin with the Berlin Brigade, 84-87

Conservar para nunca esquecer !

That goose-stepping looks like something out of Monty Python's Flying Circus! 🤣🤣🤣

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Haha, yes it does!

@Bjowolf2

Жыл бұрын

Or Fawlty Towers to be more precise 😂 ( classic and much beloved British TV comedy series from the 70s ). But John Cleese ( the owner of the small FT hotel ) was a member of the British Monty Python comedy group, and he was indeed the one, who did those silly walks 😂 Check out the FT episode called "The Germans" to see what I mean 😉 - best FT episode alongside "Communication Problems" ( with the deaf woman 😂 ).

@yunov1124

Жыл бұрын

@@Bjowolf2 ^_^む

@Bjowolf2

Жыл бұрын

@@yunov1124? 😂

Amazing. 1 month later revolution started in my native country of Romania which ended the most brutal communist regime in Eastern Europe

'Do you see the cameras up there?' 'Where?' Sweetheart, they're the size of buses. Open your damn eyes.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@TheRealBillBob

Жыл бұрын

That was funny.

east german helmets are excellent cookware for central asian rice dish pilaf

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

🤣

Been in Berlin since 1974. Worked for brits in NAAFI 10 years. Then 1984 to 1991 lived in the west but worked in the east commuting daily. Very interesting years. Now retired and still in berlin

@darkWorkOne

10 ай бұрын

I lived in Germany (near Giessen) in the late 80s/early 90s. At the time, we just happened to be visiting Berlin when the Wall fell in the middle of our trip. I hope to travel to Berlin next year and revisit some of the sights to see how much has changed.

I wanted to spend my Birthday (Nov 5th) in Berlin that year. Little did I know the party that would happen only 4 days later!

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, you just missed it!

I was 10 months old when they pulled down the wall. Joegoslavia war, Cold war and Yasser Arafat, Palestina and Israel was the first thing I can remember to watch on the news back then. Way too young to understand. These happenings are all remnants and devastating consequences of WW2, well over 4 decades later.

@darkworkone which year? By the way good vlog👍🏼

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! The footage in this video is from the morning of Nov. 9 1989, just hours before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The other videos in the series playlist are from Nov. 10, 1989, just after the Fall of the Wall: kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOAS-GOlLtENfneckHXLogY

I was in my early teens then. When I left, it was still West Germany. After I graduated highschool, I came back to another country, a united Germany with no more DDR.

Visited Berlin last summer. It was a shock seeing the capital of German not fully recovered after WWII yet. When you fight fascism be careful not to install another one.

@urbandiscount

Жыл бұрын

What on earth do you mean

@tommymorton4939

Жыл бұрын

@@urbandiscount I mean, look what happened in Russia. They were so proud they fought and destroyed fascism, yet they did succeed to reinstall the same fascism in their motherland.

Imagine wanting to build a wall around a country, you are on the wrong side of history.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@davorlekenik9563

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne bloody that day !!!

so were you there on the 9th, the morning before the fall that would happen that evening? or the 10th, the morning after the fall?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

We were in Berlin the 8th - 11th. This specific video was Nov. 9th, just hours before the Wall fell later that same day. The playlist has videos from the 10th as well: kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOAS-GOlLtENfneckHXLogY

Ich finde das Konzept der Mauer einfach surreal als 2000er geborener geht das nicht in meinen Kopf rein das man einfach da nicht lang konnte oder rüber durfte

@MeatboyYeee

Жыл бұрын

Oder auf einen geschossen wurden durfte beim überqueren

This is so cool

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Glad to share, thanks for watching!

I miss the Berlin wall.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Why?

2:25 When I visited East Germany in 1985 as a backpacker this 19th century Kaiser era memorial had been renamed a memorial against "Militarism and Fascism" by the Erich Honecker East German (DDR) Communist government.

@manuheber9011

Жыл бұрын

Erich Honecker😆

@netprep

Жыл бұрын

There was an even better picture of Honecker and Forby celebrating the anniversary of the wall with a banner describing the wall as antifascist.. things fell apart soon after that trip

@netprep

Жыл бұрын

Sorry Gorby I mean

ugh, ossis nostalgic for this

This is a lot of good source. Based man

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad to share. Thanks for watching!!

There happens to be a small portion of the Berlin wall in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at the Passion Play grounds. It still has the graffiti written on it.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Oh, nice info!

On the main door to the Wall Museum there was a sign with tickets prices: 2 DM Adults 1 DM schoolchildren and pensioners. Visitors from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea enter FREE of CHARGE upon showing their passports.

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

Poor Yugos lol.

00:29 just like Britain today!

@kevinmcmullan1827

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely nothing like present day Britain, if you want to leave just get on a plane, no wall keeping you in.

@jackcade68

Жыл бұрын

Love my country. Don't care much for all the surveillance. Good to see that you're down with it. 🇬🇧

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

Yep right down to the shabby buildings. I've been around the world including to a lot of 3rd world countries but this is the only country where you see plants growing out of the roofs of buildings which are still in use.

I'm shocked that the STASI or Volkspolizei would allow anyone, let along foreigners from across the wall, to bring in camera equipment and record in the DDR. Granted, this is under Egon Krenz's SED but still...

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

It is pretty shocking in retrospect, but surprisingly we also had no problems filming in Moscow and Leningrad (USSR) a couple months later in 1990 (still editing those videos to upload).

@robn8726

Жыл бұрын

There were buildings with the East German flag symbol that if you took pictures of they would arrest you

@juniatapark54

Жыл бұрын

The GDR wanted tourists and tourists' money. Even before 1989 tourists could travel around the GDR, and take pictures and film. I traveled throughout the GDR taking pictures. Sometimes I took trains, other times I drove a rental car. You had to pay for your hotels ahead of time and they gave you a visa when you arrived.

@juniatapark54

Жыл бұрын

@@robn8726 East German tour guides would halt the tours so people could take pictures of buildings and other sights. They wanted you to take pictures of GDR symbolism.

@donbalduf572

Жыл бұрын

East Germany, like all of the east bloc countries, had a list of things not to be photographed. Rail stations, government buildings notably. As a westerner you had to be careful what you photographed, but war memorials and such were usually ok.

I saw the whole event in TV back then, I was just 7 years old

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

I was only 8 in this video!

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@tatumergo3931 🕵️‍♂️

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@tatum ergo I think that's why my dad initially took us kids to the berlin zoo on Nov 10th, out of caution (shown in one of my other videos). My mom and her friend didn't go to the zoo, and I think they were seeing if it was safe to have us kids at Checkpoint Charlie, which we went to after.

Nice

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Noice

The helmets at 4:52 look like those in Star Wars

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@TheRealBillBob

Жыл бұрын

Where do you think Star War's got the idea of the Empire?

Хорошо жил Берлин нельзя им ныть, напряжение было место где проходила граница 2 полюсного мира личнокорыстно мелко похабного капиталистического и идейно народного социалистического. Мир уже не станет как раньше и везде будет своя АМЕРИКА как в песне Рамштейн хоть в Африке хоть в Крайнем Севере. Солдаты на видео последние немецкие солдаты вот так умерла Германия остатки от той старой гордой. И там сейчас своя АМЕРИКА но люди люди помнят свою жизнь кто то с радостью вспомнит а кто то осуждает. Спасибо автору за видео а мы простые дети тогдашнего соцлагеря 80 х с радостью переписывались по почте с детьми из других стран и мы ждали эти письма от своих камерад товарищей от Польши СССР Венгрии ну и конечно очень ждали письма от своих друзей с ГДР

The calm before the storm 😉 Basil Fawlty ( from the famous British TV comedy series Fawlty Towers ) can do those silly goose steps way better than those East German guards 😂 - but it's a bit weird how they kept on marching like that in the GDR; I guess that is telling us a lot about that political system ( a combination of communism and fascism / nazism ).

Look kids, Germans goose-stepping in Berlin!

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

😂

@erik_griswold

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonscott6174 Thanks for the insights. Was the marching at the GDR 40 parade (FF to 14m30s) more Prussian? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKp2qbueYZyvks4.html

My great uncle was stationed is western Berlin

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Do you know what years?

So 1989..... 1989....my guess is we'll SOON see V2.0 of this saga.... Just 10X bigger thought and defiantly before the end of 2025....

I lived in Germany from 1984 until 1992...so many happy times, when we knew the wall was about to fall and hopes for the future, with freedom. Sadly look at it now, another enemy is closing in and taking away our hopes rights to freedom. When the wall was still there, we had stability, now we have chaos and a terrifying future...I wish the damn thing was back. We had a stalemate, but it felt " secure" now we have danger and uncertainty...I seriously never thought I would write such comments, as truly believed that when the wall was gone, peace would reign...how wrong I was!! 😢

I still remember checkpoint Charly from the 1980‘s😊 So for me it’s not history but something recent 😅

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Seems not that long ago, but also a lifetime, haha

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@briesn7004 That's your takeaway from the video? You cared enough to comment...?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

​@@briesn7004 💔Watch other videos from berlin on my playlist! kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOAS-GOlLtENfneckHXLogY

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@briesn7004 Thanks buddy! I appreciate you engaging with my content. Hope your day gets better! Watch my other videos and engage more!! kzread.info/head/PLXM1gE9lbZhOAS-GOlLtENfneckHXLogY I love you

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@briesn7004 Ah yes, my psychological condition and my bullshit, I keep forgetting about that. I am so relaxed now, thank you. As an idiot, it's easy to stay relaxed. I don't know much, and my ignorance keeps me nice and relaxed. Nice and relaxed, oh yeah. I hope your psychological condition is nice and relaxed as well. I'm going to go take a bath and stay relaxed and forget about all my bullshit from before when I said, "Seems not that long ago, but also a lifetime, haha". I was such a bullshit idiot with a bad pschological condition when I said those idiotic words.

I don’t think anybody had any idea what would be going on 12 hours later

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not us!

Ich vermisse Ostberlin

Why were East German guards still there knowing the wall was basically gone? If anyone now can go see the East German tomb of unknown soldier due to fall of wall, what was the point of changing the guard?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

This video was taken on the morning of Nov 9th. The wall was still up at this point. It didn't "fall" until later that same night.

@inquisitvem6723

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne ok thanks. How come the East German guards let western tourists go inside the tomb if they didn’t know until later that it was gonna “fall”? So the communist regime was technically already overthrown. The wall falling that night was just a foregone conclusion?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

​@Inquisitve m I'm not sure why they allowed western tourists, maybe for propaganda purposes? I'm not sure, but they allowed it. I don't think anyone knew the wall was coming down that night, even the guards.

i've actually seen checkpoint charlie

The Russian guards foot and rifle drill was so much more impressive than that of the brits, I think most will agree.

@darkWorkOne

10 ай бұрын

I think all guard changing rituals are bizarre and goofy, regardless of country. But I do have video of Welsh guards from the same time in another video on my channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJ52s9t9lpCdnpc.html

went there after the wall come down

*The boys who saw the changing of the guard would have been impressed and inspired to become soldiers one day to fight fascism and its economic system of capitalism.*

🤣 the funniest part - it was western world that first insisted on dividing germany in half and then deliberately forced communists to separate Western Berlin by the Wall. but blamed, successfully, USSR.

Heard on passing of guard, "Eine kliner poff", said by a bystander.

That building at 2:30 was NOT a "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier". The building is called "Neue Wache" in German, which translates to "New Guardhouse". Before WW2 it was a memorial of the victims of the Napoleonian wars 1813-1815. After WW2, GDR turned it into memorial of the victims of Nazism - and that's what we see in the video. After reunification of Germany in 1990, it has been changed again and now it is a memorial of victims of WW1 and WW2.

@darkWorkOne

11 ай бұрын

That's wrong. Neue Wache has inside a tomb of 2 people - an unknown soldier and concentration camp inmate. They were laid to rest there in 1969.

@0raj0

11 ай бұрын

@@darkWorkOne Well, maybe it has, I didn't know about it. But it was at the times primarily intended to serve as memorial of the victims of Nazism, and has been labeled as such in tourist guides, city maps etc. and signs on the building itself. The tomb was not mentioned much. I was in that building a few years earlier than you and don't remember anything written there about the tomb, but the inscription "Mahnmal für die Opfer des Faschismus und Militarismus" was displayed very prominently. So we are both right to some extent... ;)

Die NVA-Soldaten hätten in schwarzen Uniformen mit dem altmodischen Stahlhelm besser ausgesehen.

Z - 4я полицейская дивизия СС! V - нарукавный знак СС, Абвера, Люфтваффе, Вермахта - построили 4 русорейх !

Interesting how this soldier kid was so curious toward the sound of American language...probably he was well aware that he was serving a losing nation....can imagine him later telling his friends down in Zeulenroda how cool it was to work in these vibrant international enviromnents of Berlin :-)

@markusschmidt7513

Жыл бұрын

@@teamgeist3328 well, these were consrcipts and certainly in the course of the year 1989 the felt how the authorities were eroding...furhermore the army remained strong in the east....and sport and military remain the only two areas where East Germans continue to be overrepresented in reunited German...

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe

Жыл бұрын

American language, Was that anything similar to the English spoken by British forces in the British sector in West Berlin ?

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe Not really. American English and British English sound different. Even British civilians cant understand a lot when British soldiers talk amongst each other lol.

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe

Жыл бұрын

@@simonh6371 While I was Based in West Berlin, Royal Engineers Jan Smut Barracks. In 1989 I regularly spoke with British Civilians on a Weekly basis In the NAAFI ,And Tourists and 🇬🇧 Expats I never had a problem understanding them or they understanding myself or my Brothers & Sisters in Arms (Even the Glaswegians And one fellow from the Shetland islands Hello Derick if you ever read this. And Yorkshire And Cumbrians, . In fact the Thursday before the Berlin Wall came down ((9th/10th November 1989. I had a pleasant evening in a Chinese restaurant (SUCCELENT CHINESE MEAL) with 20 people from many areas of the UK And understood them all. Yes a lot of alcohol was taken but I was aware what they were yapping about.

@barbarapitenthusiast7103

Жыл бұрын

@Teamgeist 57% of east germans said lige was beter under communism and want it back

Thank you for sharing your video. Born in Neuköln, West Berlin 1970 and left there in 1985. I moved abroad to the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪 in 1985. I am proud to have experienced all that. I used to hang out at the USAF base Tempelhof looking at the Aviation Detachment Huey. Funny enough, my mom went once for visiting to East Berlin. I was afraid, I said - I never go to their 😇 Since, most people I meet in the former East are great people.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

And only a couple of months earlier the GDR / DDR had celebrated its 40th birthday with big parades and all sorts of "clever" paroles 🙄😂 I bet they didn't see that one coming 😉 You can find video of that here on KZread.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

😂

Wait 0:38 are those cctv , we’re they invented back then ?

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

It's so common today, I didn't consider that...I'm not sure when they were invented

@Alloneword-cp2xw

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was in the 70s when tech allowed to record footage that it started to become more wide spread. CCTV was being used in the 40s in some military installations.

@0raj0

11 ай бұрын

CCTV is almost as old as television itself.

Kaiser wilhelm move to the netherlands but he died of old age then his grave is in Germany

It was beautiful times for Germany ✋

@A.B376

Жыл бұрын

Los soviéticos debieron pasarla bien durante la Operación Barbarroja.

@reginaldcopperbottom1738

Жыл бұрын

@@A.B376 Germans must have had a good time during operation bagration

@A.B376

Жыл бұрын

@@reginaldcopperbottom1738 Tuviste mucha suerte de que hitler no escuchara a sus generales, de lo contrario no existirías

Hmm, didn't know western military personnel toured East Berlin in uniform.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Military personnel? We were civilians

@AML2000

Жыл бұрын

As part of the agreements that set up the occupation zones in Germany, all military forces were given free access to all the zones in Berlin. US military personnel were actually encouraged to wander around East Berlin in uniform to publically excercise this right.

@AML2000

Жыл бұрын

@@darkWorkOne It's in reference to the US military personnel watching the guard change ceremony.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

@@AML2000 Ah, that's so interesting...didn't know, thanks for the info!

A bad day indeed for Soviet Bloc & Germany is back to Lebensraum along with US Paperclip Support.

It looked like Hans was still snoring in his bed.

1:02 Why is the Solidarność logo in germany? They were a Polish organization also there are names underneath "Ghandi" "Marthin Luther King" "Wałęsa"

@regularyugoslav8188

Жыл бұрын

It's a memorial plate put up by the west on the border in order to convey a political message to whoever from the East could see it I presume

@wojtekpolska1013

Жыл бұрын

@@regularyugoslav8188 that doesn't make any sense Solidarność was a political organization from POLAND, Poland was from the eastern block during the cold war, so how would they even get to the west side? and this video is of east berlin, not west EDIT: i accidentally said western instead of western block, fixed

@Dutch_Uncle

Жыл бұрын

The Polish Embassy is near the Berlin Wall line, and near Unter den Linden, the main avenue. They had a large sign in front , "It started in Gdansk", as a reminder of the star of events that ended with the fall of the wall and the reunification of Germany.

@wojtekpolska1013

Жыл бұрын

@@Dutch_Uncle thanks, very interesting :)

@CO84trucker

Жыл бұрын

The Nonviolent Struggle: strongest force for peace in freedom. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Sakharov, Walesa are master builders for YOUR future too.

Shout out to BAHS Class of 90....

Germany should bring East Germany back like in a theme park. Could call it East German Land similar to maybe Disney land etc.? One of the features would be guys goose stepping around. Of course they would have to use actors.

@manuheber9011

Жыл бұрын

A North Korea Theme Park with the surpreme leader Kim (im)possible!😆

@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568

Жыл бұрын

both of you are obviously usaians

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Such strange comments...but I guess some people drunk comment. At least I hope they were drunk, haha.

I was in Berlin in late Summer of 1989 I SWORE THAT WALL WOULD HAVE REMAINED UP TILL TODAY!! But History as always would see it change just 3 months after I left!! I been back many times especially in 1994 when I worked and Lived in Berlin and last in 2006 how the city had changed! I always say the day the Wall came down was the true end of WWII

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I was only a child then and didn't realize the full historical impact of the events at the time. I hope this history doesn't repeat and lessons were learned, but I'm not convinced.

@GrandTheftChris

Жыл бұрын

There is one last chapter to be closed as we see now.

@zdenkakoren6660

Жыл бұрын

It did not end, just land owners are others now in control - power...same shit different envelope....

I feel bad for the East German guards that stand at entrances, or do their change of the guards procedure (4:05), almost for the entertainment of the western tourists. They must have felt like zoo animals.

@darkWorkOne

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about that, but they probably didn't have much choice unfortunately

@TheRealBillBob

Жыл бұрын

They do the same thing with King's Guards in the UK.