Today we're in Berlin - the vibrant and historical capital of Germany. It has
undergone rapid change and development over the last century more than most
cities from almost being completely destroyed during World War two, divided,
and now reunited in experiencing rapid growth this is a city that deserves your
undivided attention follow us as we take a historic free walking tour of the city
and discover the top 15 historic sites.
But first let's check into our hotel so this is the Holiday Inn Express in
Berlin this was roughly 150 euros for one night versus the austell which was
about 70 euros per night and check out that new house they have one here in
Berlin and I just ordered currywurst
in French fries and pretzel
and you can watch soccer here. We're going to take a free walking tour of the
city. This is the Brandenburg Gate one of the most iconic symbols. Very international
crowd here today. This gate is one of the only things that
survived the two-day bombing raids.
this is the hotel Adlon, where the Michael Jackson baby dangling incident occured. This commemorates
memorialized these six million lives but it's also here to educate can't change
what's happened in the past use it to alter what may be happening in the
present or in the near or in the future so what I love most about it is that it
is interactive and that everybody's experience
everybody's interpretation everyone's different ways of looking at this or
taking something away from it. So this is the Holocaust Memorial memorial to the
murdered Jews it's very abstract looks like grey cinder blocks is
supposed to represent the millions of people who died
but it's up for interpretation I really feel kind of like a heaviness the
situation walking through here feels like dominoes are gonna collapse on you
there are two thousand seven hundred and eleven blocks here but it's impossible
to tell the extent of it just by walking through this is where his bunker was
hooray celebrate
in East Berlin the workers went on strike because they kept having to work
harder and harder for no more pay and when they asked for compromise they were
gunned down a little cool mural that symbolizes what
I'm supposed to look like in the GDR
spirit of socialism this is the original German airforce maybe we get this
concrete block building also one of the few buildings that survived the bombings
very imposing very just scary building
organize the Air Force government raise seventy percent seventy of Berlin was destroyed
but not the air force headquarters. This Boulevard had all the Nazi
buildings they were all destroyed.
This is the actual wall, it has not been moved or repaired in any way.
This is as tall as it was, this is as big as it was, and this is exactly where it used to stand.
That's Germany and when the iron curtain goes up I mean the system goes up nicely
we have the uprising people early we can't go this way so what they do
instead if you lived in Leipzig which is just down here hop on a train hour and a
half you can put into the western side of the city if you live in a rhenium
boat 47 minutes way by a spawn in the east you enter into Friedrichstrasse
that exit the west side boom you have done it if you live in Berlin you just
have to walk across this street once you're over there you're in West Berlin
when you're in West Berlin you find a refugee spot you say hello I'm from East Germany
and I'd like to leave can you help me they'll say yeah that's good
they'll then take you from West Berlin into Western for human oblige begun a
West German system in 1961 the Berlin Wall was constructed to prevent the
influx of people leaving East Berlin dividing the city in half the Berlin
Wall he's stood right here
that's our job so under the campaign you see the
American side this is all me created none of us is real but
checkpoint that you
from east to west most of our visitors and allied troops French cathedrals of
our state both destroyed and
spots were recovered by rubble women go through all the rubble and piece it back
together and the white parts are new all the book burning happened and they
gathered all the books that were written by anyone that they considered on the
Germans and burn them and but the court was also incredibly telling and very
specific as well because it says that was just the foreword where you begin by
burning books you will end by burning people
that was recent 1820 Iwakuma events happened in the 1500s we
are back in Berlin! Bp is back after how many years? 48 48 years. BP
are you retracing your steps today? Sort of. You didn't come here in the 70s? I
couldn't go on this side. It's a pretty nice I'm busy this is the Russian
embassy check this out look at how huge this place is
very grandiose
we are at the implement store in Berlin and here you can buy the symbol of
Berlin which is the crosswalk pants and they come literally everything
things called ghost stations here they're all open now so the eastern
German stations no escalators
it's like we're at the beach beach club and Alexander Platz just like we're on a
beach at a beach club we hope that you enjoyed this tour of Berlin if you liked
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