The Kaiser Wilhem church was left for one reason ,to remind people the devastation of WW2. I saw it when I was 10 in 77 and it was still then covered in bullet holes, tank blasts, and everything else one can imagine. For me it stuck as the most influential WW2 relic in Berlin I have witnessed.
Not entirely sure Otto von Bismarck ‘commissioned’ the Reichstagsgebaude in 1871, as it took quite a few years to decide on a site, and, as far as I’m aware, 1894 is the official build date. Architect was Paul Wallot and it replaced a Polish noble’s palace that previously occupied where this great building now stands. The 1933 fire only saw the main debating chamber burned out, as the side annexes basically remained untouched. The NSDAP reconvened their ‘parliament’ across the Konigsplatz at the Krolloper, an infamous building in the story of the Third Reich, now long gone.
The first planings went back to the early time after the German-French War of 1870/ 1871 (the new German Reich got a new Parliament = needed a new Parliament Building, as simple as that). The construction works started in 1884, they were finished and the building opened in 1894. The best history of the building was written by an American Historian: Michael S. Cullen: Der Reichstag (2004 and 2014). The building got a first re-building in the 1950ies and then a second one in the 1990ies by Norman Foster - about this part of its history: Norman Foster/ David Jenkins: Der neue Reichstag (2000). Btw: The Reichstag Building was always a Symbol for Democracy and Unity in German History, not so much as Symbol for Power. When the building was constructed the German Parliament had few real Power in Policy Making, but it was the only democratic Institution of the Country. The Architect, Paul Wallot, constructed the building as aesthetically equal to the Royal Castle on the other side of the "Linden" and as a Symbol of the Unity of the Country = the four Towers of the building represented the four Kingdoms of that-time Germany: Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg. So obviously the Nazis neglected this Building largely. That the Red Army of the Soviet Union used it as the "central goal" and "crown jewel of Fascism" was at best a total misunderstanding of German History and the Place of this Building in this History. You can still see the Scraffiti of the Soldiers of the Red Army at the walls inside of the Building.
The Neo-Renaissance building was built between 1884 and 1894 in the Tiergarten district on the left bank of the River Spree to plans by the architect Paul Wallot. It housed both the Reichstag legislature of the German Empire and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The Reich's Federal Council also originally met there. The building was initially used by the Reichstag for Nazi Germany, but severe damage in the Reichstag fire of 1933 prevented further use and the Reichstag moved to the nearby Kroll Opera House. The 1933 fire became a pivotal event in the entrenchment of the Nazi regime. The building took further damage during the Second World War and its symbolism made it an important target for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. that's from Wikipedia, nothing from Bismarck
@@rwa844 …Quite an impressive building nonetheless! Visited it in 2001 and will do so again late this year. One of my favourite buildings in Berlin and a tour of that dome is pretty cool…did that in 2001 too…
I've been to almost all too. My first time there was in 1976 to visit relatives. Almost adjacent to Brandenburger Tor is the luxury Adlon Hotel which has a history of its own. Adjacent to Anhalter Bahnhof is the "Bunker" with its Museum inside. The infamous house on the Wannsee is reachable by S-Bahn and bus in Potsdam. When you decide to visit these attractions, prioritize your List, buy a City Map with Public transportation, buy a 3 or 7-day Pass, and plan your week. Afterwards, watch documentary films to give yourself a more complete understanding.
I might have included Checkpoint Charlie as it is a result of the war. I was there 3 years ago and it's touristy beyond belief. But there are other parts of the wall that seem unvisited.
@@jochem420 If you want a piece of the wall, look down at Checkpoint Charlie- there are multicoloured bits of gravel that I can only assume were once part of the wall. You can just pick them up for free. But- I understand that the wall had a lot of asbestos mixed into the cement which was common 60 years ago.
I walked right past it even while looking for it. Never realizing it was this small shed in the road until I saw a sign about the Berlin standoff at the other end of the area..
In its current state Check Point Charlie is treated like a joke. I went through there a few times back in the day when it was "serious business." I wish it was treated with more reverence.
I had planned to go to Berlin on my Western European vacation, with my friend. At the time, I was getting a security clearance in 1984…so I didn’t go there - and missed going through Checkpoint Charlie. Missed a bit of history.
I've been to: 1. Reichtag Building. 2. Brandenburd Gate 6. Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe. 7. Hitler Bunker. 9. Topography of Terror I visited twice, 2012 and 2019. Hopefully will come back again in the next few years. There is always something amazing to see.
I'm trying to learn some level of basic German to visit one day soon. Roughly speaking, how easy or difficult is it to navigate around Berlin as an English speaker?
This video starts by misspelling Reichstag as "Reichtag" in big letters. Moments later the speaker states that it was "completely destroyed by fire". This is plainly untrue - as the script later makes clear. However, it was not left "in a further dilapidated state until German reunification". It was restored and it housed, among other things, a museum of German parliamentary history. Get your facts right.
Thanks for the comment paulwebbiweb, great to have you apart of the conversation. The typo on Reichstag is regrettable. Following the fire, the Reichstag was a ruin. I’m happy to split hairs over the definition of ‘destroyed’ but the building having been gutted by fire, no longer served as the German seat of Parliament. During the war years it served intermediary as a maternity ward and further damage by Allied bombs and fighting during the last days of the war followed by the subsequent division meant it could no longer be used for its original purpose. After 1961 the Berlin Wall ran along the back of the building. Since the capital of West Germany was now in Bonn, the Reichstag could not be used as a seat of government. In 1955 the German Bundestag decided the structure should be preserved and an architectural contest was held for the design of the renovation. Architect Paul Baumgarten designed the reconstruction which took place from 1961 to 1964. After 1971, the Reichstag housed a museum with an exhibit called “Fragen an die Deutsche Geschichte” but the building sat largely unused until 1990 and German reunification. I hope that helps to clarify my comments.
Surely a place in the top 10 for the Bendlerblock?…. Fantastic city to visit,the Topography of Terror museum is probably the best museum I have visited
I was there in August 1990, the first Americans from Miami Dade College School of Architecture. The wall just came down 6 months prior. It was all shot and looked run down. Those 4 towers on the corners had German Artillery on the tops, the Nazis held the russians off there for a few good days, they had to clear it room by room. I saw the Pergamon Museum and the Adlon Hotel, we stayed at Berlin Excelsior, and it was nice. I spent a few days in Berlin and a week in Germany. I saw Koln, Dachau, King Ludwigs Castle, Munich Hofrbrau Haus, the Alps, everything. I always wanted to go back. I feel connected to this place somehow.
Really love the research and effort put into your videos. If i ever come to Germany I'd love to have you as a tour guide :) keep up the videos. Loving it!
Great video, you left out The History Bunker (Geschichte Bunker) which is just behind the Anhalter train station , the Flak Tower (Flakturm Hambodlthein) and Tempelhof Airport ( Tempelhof Flughafen) .
Great video I didn't know about the Anhalter Bahnhof. Major site missing is the German Russian Museum in Karlshorst where the unconditional surrender was signed
I was there in August 1990, the first Americans from Miami Dade College school of Architecture. The was just came down 6 motnhs prior, it was all shot and looked run down. Those 4 towers on the corners had German Artillery on the tops, the Nazis held the russians off there for a few good days, they jad to clear it room by room. I saw the Pergamon Museum and the Adlon Hotel, we stayed at Berlin Excelsior and it was nice. I spent a few days in Berlin and a week in Germany. I saw Dachau, King Ludwigs Castle, Munich Hofrbrau Haus, everything. I always wanted to go back. I feel connected to this place somehow.
I just left Germany. I did go to most of these sites. The only one I didn’t go to was the new guard house. i only had three days but for a history buff this and rome top my list! Great video!
I completely agree with the burning of the books but my school didn't and my lone action got me threw out only joking watching with interest as I want to go there,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️
01:44 I don't want to be picky, but the Reichstag wasn't taken until 2 May 1945. The Soviet troops entered the building on 30 April but it took them two days to occupy it fully.
I was able to tour West Berlin back in my college days in 1980. So yes, the city was still divided. My group had a tour of the Reichstag and a lecture on the German government. I have a distinct memory of looking out one of the large windows that overlooked the wall and watching the guards in the towers pulling up their binoculars to see all of the college girls in the window. I also remember when our bus drove past the Brandenburg Gate which was part of the Wall. We drove past the Soviet Memorial but couldn't get out to see it because it was the Soviet's and they had built their memorial on the wrong side of the wall. There were still bombed out ruins throughout the city which was striking especially when we went into East Berlin for a couple of hours (thru Checkpoint Charlie) and there were people living in some of the bombed out buildings. We rode the UBahn to some of the museums and at least one of the rail lines went thru East Berlin stations and did not stop, guards very visible. The Wall itself was a very striking visual (it was a block from our youth hostel) seeing the curtains still hanging in the windows of some of the buildings. I'd love to go back one day and see for myself how the city has changed since reunification.
Several another "Must sees" in Berlin: 1) Tempelhof airport, the "mother" of all modern airports, true megastructure even by modern standards; 2) Schwerbelastungskörper - concrete '"puck" used in research of pressure exerted on soil by gigastructures like Volkshalle; 3)Remains of the flakturms (I see You've covered them in another video).
@@williamgriffiths9453 The 3 Flakturm sites in Berlin were 1. Zoo (southwest corner of Tiergarten) - that one completely vanished 2. Friedrichshain - demolished, forming hills (Mont Klamott) in the Volkspark Friedrichshain and 3. Humboldthain - partially demolished, north fassade still more or less intact and visible, now a viewing platform in a park. If you want to see complete Flaktürme you need to visit Hamburg or Vienna.
I found the comment Colin. Thanks very much. I'm going to look into the places you mentioned and see if I can get to see them when I get there, It's only a 2 day trip so hopefully I'll have enough time to take it all in. Cheers again 👍 👍
The Reichstag building was probably not well liked by Hitler because the building is a Tartarian style building. Hitler as an artist and architect had the appreciation for the Roman buildings with large pillars and high ceilings and marble.
I’ve heard that the video of Hitler awarding Iron Cross medals to those poor children was actually in mid March ‘45. You could be right. Just a thought.
My neighbor was born in Berlin in 1940. She said the Soviets commited terrible crimes against the women of East Berlin. Her family members were attacked. He father was shot off of a horse in Odessa and her uncle was killed in Stalingrad 2 weeks after he went home to handle his brothers affairs. War can be brutal.
Even though not in walking distance of central Berlin the Olympiastadion and the entire olympic park is in my opinion one of the, if not the best historical site, at least in regards of the Nazi era.
Did they ever turn the top of the Brandenburg gate back around after 1989? I visited Berlin in June 1989. I hear there have been a few changes since. :-)
I would add Karlshorst Museum in east Berlin, where the Nazis signed the surrender. Amazing museum in the middle of housing with hardly any visitors full of great soviets/ German equipment uniforms. It was a casino for the German Army and the Soviets used it as their HQ.
For those that know history and exactly what happen Berlin was brutally victimized by the allied powers civilian men used to clean up the mess they left and dig graves for the fallen soldiers and those civilians killed women were rape massively 2 million in Berlin alone kids died of starvation or by trying to defend theyre mothers getting raped the atrocities done by the alleged liberators was sickening
The Kaiser Wilhem church was left for one reason ,to remind people the devastation of WW2. I saw it when I was 10 in 77 and it was still then covered in bullet holes, tank blasts, and everything else one can imagine. For me it stuck as the most influential WW2 relic in Berlin I have witnessed.
I would also add Berlin Flak Towers. Great video , BTW.
Exactly
Agree with both sentiments!
Thank you so much for making this video.I've been interested in history for a long time and I will surely visit all the sights in the video
Ja must not miss As a thing
all the sites.
Not entirely sure Otto von Bismarck ‘commissioned’ the Reichstagsgebaude in 1871, as it took quite a few years to decide on a site, and, as far as I’m aware, 1894 is the official build date. Architect was Paul Wallot and it replaced a Polish noble’s palace that previously occupied where this great building now stands. The 1933 fire only saw the main debating chamber burned out, as the side annexes basically remained untouched. The NSDAP reconvened their ‘parliament’ across the Konigsplatz at the Krolloper, an infamous building in the story of the Third Reich, now long gone.
The first planings went back to the early time after the German-French War of 1870/ 1871 (the new German Reich got a new Parliament = needed a new Parliament Building, as simple as that). The construction works started in 1884, they were finished and the building opened in 1894. The best history of the building was written by an American Historian: Michael S. Cullen: Der Reichstag (2004 and 2014). The building got a first re-building in the 1950ies and then a second one in the 1990ies by Norman Foster - about this part of its history: Norman Foster/ David Jenkins: Der neue Reichstag (2000).
Btw: The Reichstag Building was always a Symbol for Democracy and Unity in German History, not so much as Symbol for Power. When the building was constructed the German Parliament had few real Power in Policy Making, but it was the only democratic Institution of the Country. The Architect, Paul Wallot, constructed the building as aesthetically equal to the Royal Castle on the other side of the "Linden" and as a Symbol of the Unity of the Country = the four Towers of the building represented the four Kingdoms of that-time Germany: Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg. So obviously the Nazis neglected this Building largely. That the Red Army of the Soviet Union used it as the "central goal" and "crown jewel of Fascism" was at best a total misunderstanding of German History and the Place of this Building in this History.
You can still see the Scraffiti of the Soldiers of the Red Army at the walls inside of the Building.
The Neo-Renaissance building was built between 1884 and 1894 in the Tiergarten district on the left bank of the River Spree to plans by the architect Paul Wallot. It housed both the Reichstag legislature of the German Empire and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The Reich's Federal Council also originally met there. The building was initially used by the Reichstag for Nazi Germany, but severe damage in the Reichstag fire of 1933 prevented further use and the Reichstag moved to the nearby Kroll Opera House. The 1933 fire became a pivotal event in the entrenchment of the Nazi regime. The building took further damage during the Second World War and its symbolism made it an important target for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. that's from Wikipedia, nothing from Bismarck
@@rwa844 …Quite an impressive building nonetheless! Visited it in 2001 and will do so again late this year. One of my favourite buildings in Berlin and a tour of that dome is pretty cool…did that in 2001 too…
I’ve been to all but one thanks to my son giving me a tour. The topography of terror site/museum and the Brandenburg gate are not to be missed
I remember that place it had a replica of the model of Berlin what would have been built great little place dont know if it's there now.
I've been to almost all too. My first time there was in 1976 to visit relatives. Almost adjacent to Brandenburger Tor is the luxury Adlon Hotel which has a history of its own. Adjacent to Anhalter Bahnhof is the "Bunker" with its Museum inside. The infamous house on the Wannsee is reachable by S-Bahn and bus in Potsdam. When you decide to visit these attractions, prioritize your List, buy a City Map with Public transportation, buy a 3 or 7-day Pass, and plan your week. Afterwards, watch documentary films to give yourself a more complete understanding.
So informative, looking forward to my next visit to Berlin, thank you !
I would love to visit these WWII historical sites!
They are.so uplifting. Alone 80 percent of the town was bombed. Must give a rush...
Fantastic video,
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this, you did a great job!
Amazing and thank you a million for bringing the top 10 of berlin . really amazing.
Thanks Anil, I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Why did he forget to mention Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Kalergi Plan ?
I might have included Checkpoint Charlie as it is a result of the war. I was there 3 years ago and it's touristy beyond belief. But there are other parts of the wall that seem unvisited.
Definitely agree. The Cold War went on from 1945 till 1989 when the Wall fell; perhaps the gentleman can add CPC to a followup video.
its crazy how many tourist stores around Checkpoint Charlie sell 'real pieces of the wall' aka ridiculously overpriced pieces of concrete
@@jochem420 If you want a piece of the wall, look down at Checkpoint Charlie- there are multicoloured bits of gravel that I can only assume were once part of the wall. You can just pick them up for free. But- I understand that the wall had a lot of asbestos mixed into the cement which was common 60 years ago.
I walked right past it even while looking for it. Never realizing it was this small shed in the road until I saw a sign about the Berlin standoff at the other end of the area..
In its current state Check Point Charlie is treated like a joke. I went through there a few times back in the day when it was "serious business." I wish it was treated with more reverence.
Wonderful description.
I had planned to go to Berlin on my Western European vacation, with my friend. At the time, I was getting a security clearance in 1984…so I didn’t go there - and missed going through Checkpoint Charlie. Missed a bit of history.
Ironically, Anhalter Bahnhof is now located a few blocks away from Berlin's new museum for flight, expulsion, and reconciliation.
Thanks for that, really interesting. Off to Belin latter this year so ill try and see some of your suggestions.
Awesome. I have been many times to Berlin. I also recommend Berlin underground. Visit war bunkers and there is also a cold war bunker.
Do people in Germany speak English or if you go to Germany you have to have some knowledge of speaking German
they speak English in large cities because of tourism. Not so much in smaller towns or villages.
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Great to have you apart of the channel Eucliid. It's fantastic to have you as the 200th subscriber
I think Plötzensee Prison is a morbid yet interesting site. ..after the last attempt on Hitler's life many of the plotters were killed here.
Thank you for the list.. Will try to check them out on my visit to Berlin in Janurary.. Cheers
Excellent and well researched. Thank you and keep 'em coming!
Please read my comments above if you think that this is well-researched.
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Thanks 766545 Hgfgu, great to have you apart of the channel
Very well made video, congrats !
Thank you, coming in March, def have to see the train station - no other video ive seen mentioned it
I've been to:
1. Reichtag Building.
2. Brandenburd Gate
6. Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe.
7. Hitler Bunker.
9. Topography of Terror
I visited twice, 2012 and 2019. Hopefully will come back again in the next few years. There is always something amazing to see.
I'm trying to learn some level of basic German to visit one day soon. Roughly speaking, how easy or difficult is it to navigate around Berlin as an English speaker?
Most people speak English it’s very easy to get by. 😊
Visit the German Russian Museum in Karlshorst where the unconditional surrender was signed
This video starts by misspelling Reichstag as "Reichtag" in big letters. Moments later the speaker states that it was "completely destroyed by fire". This is plainly untrue - as the script later makes clear. However, it was not left "in a further dilapidated state until German reunification". It was restored and it housed, among other things, a museum of German parliamentary history. Get your facts right.
Thanks for the comment paulwebbiweb, great to have you apart of the conversation. The typo on Reichstag is regrettable.
Following the fire, the Reichstag was a ruin. I’m happy to split hairs over the definition of ‘destroyed’ but the building having been gutted by fire, no longer served as the German seat of Parliament. During the war years it served intermediary as a maternity ward and further damage by Allied bombs and fighting during the last days of the war followed by the subsequent division meant it could no longer be used for its original purpose.
After 1961 the Berlin Wall ran along the back of the building. Since the capital of West Germany was now in Bonn, the Reichstag could not be used as a seat of government. In 1955 the German Bundestag decided the structure should be preserved and an architectural contest was held for the design of the renovation. Architect Paul Baumgarten designed the reconstruction which took place from 1961 to 1964. After 1971, the Reichstag housed a museum with an exhibit called “Fragen an die Deutsche Geschichte” but the building sat largely unused until 1990 and German reunification.
I hope that helps to clarify my comments.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing !
@@liamobrien4767 If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then show me the man who is out of danger.' Oscar Wilde
I agree with you Paul. Badly researched and badly put-together to satisfy people who know nothing about Berlin, and who will probably never visit.
Bebelsplatz too. No s.
Thanks, very well narrated.
Great Video!
Great video..planning a tour to Berlin and this has helped
Couple I'd not heard of before
Add the German Russian Museum in Karlshorst to your list it's where the unconditional surrender was signed
A splendid video guide. to WW2 sites in Berlin
Surely a place in the top 10 for the Bendlerblock?…. Fantastic city to visit,the Topography of Terror museum is probably the best museum I have visited
Indeed.
You should check out the Flak Towers in Berlin too 😮
great video - bendlerblock would be a dood addition to the list. cheers
I was going to suggest you ad one of the remaining Berlin Flak Towers, but I see the person before me added that. Your list is good, and thoughtful.
I was in Berlin at the end of August. Saw each place but the last one...the Anhalter Bahnhoff. I'd never heard of it.
Do people in Germany speak English or you need to know German if your visiting Germany
@@halamadrid6733 I know very little German. Most places have someone that speaks English. Not an issue at all.
@@stevedavis3527I recommend a visit to the German Russian Museum in Karlshorst where the unconditional surrender was signed
I was there in August 1990, the first Americans from Miami Dade College School of Architecture. The wall just came down 6 months prior. It was all shot and looked run down. Those 4 towers on the corners had German Artillery on the tops, the Nazis held the russians off there for a few good days, they had to clear it room by room. I saw the Pergamon Museum and the Adlon Hotel, we stayed at Berlin Excelsior, and it was nice. I spent a few days in Berlin and a week in Germany. I saw Koln, Dachau, King Ludwigs Castle, Munich Hofrbrau Haus, the Alps, everything. I always wanted to go back. I feel connected to this place somehow.
i really enjoyed this piece thank you sir
Very interesting video. I hope to visit Berlin and this was very helpful. Thanks!
I think you should have added the mansion where the Wannsee Conference was held. This was still a good video.
Very cool love ww2 history plan to visit most of the sites
Glad you enjoyed the video BrickMan Reviews. I will be making further videos on WW2 sites to visit in Berlin. So be sure to watch out for those.
The Gestapo headquarters was the German Patton Office before the Nazi’s.
Great video.Thanks.
the new Berlin Story Bunker museum MUST e on the list now
Really love the research and effort put into your videos. If i ever come to Germany I'd love to have you as a tour guide :) keep up the videos. Loving it!
Great video, you left out The History Bunker (Geschichte Bunker) which is just behind the Anhalter train station , the Flak Tower (Flakturm Hambodlthein) and Tempelhof Airport ( Tempelhof Flughafen) .
The main WW2 site in Berlin, the “Gedächtniskirche” ought to be added.
Nicely done. Very professional. I'll have to check these places out on my next trip to Germany.
Great video I didn't know about the Anhalter Bahnhof.
Major site missing is the German Russian Museum in Karlshorst where the unconditional surrender was signed
Brilliant tour of Germany Sites fantastic Job
Well done.
I was there in August 1990, the first Americans from Miami Dade College school of Architecture. The was just came down 6 motnhs prior, it was all shot and looked run down. Those 4 towers on the corners had German Artillery on the tops, the Nazis held the russians off there for a few good days, they jad to clear it room by room. I saw the Pergamon Museum and the Adlon Hotel, we stayed at Berlin Excelsior and it was nice. I spent a few days in Berlin and a week in Germany. I saw Dachau, King Ludwigs Castle, Munich Hofrbrau Haus, everything. I always wanted to go back. I feel connected to this place somehow.
I just left Germany. I did go to most of these sites. The only one I didn’t go to was the new guard house. i only had three days but for a history buff this and rome top my list! Great video!
Very fascinating, great video!
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Thank you so much. I really enjoyed your tour of interesting sites to visit in Berlin. I hope some day to visit Berlin in person
excellent stuff. Love it
Please make more video's and I'm amazed on what you're seen,God bless.
Really well presented
Wansee House, but its far from the city center.
German Russian Museum in Karlshorst where the unconditional surrender was signed
Impressive 👌
Wow, thank you!!
I completely agree with the burning of the books but my school didn't and my lone action got me threw out only joking watching with interest as I want to go there,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️
Like your delivery.
Outstanding video
2:11, the Brandenburg Gate.
Excellent Narration
I would perhaps have added the Rosenstrasse factory memorial near Alexanderplatz.
01:44 I don't want to be picky, but the Reichstag wasn't taken until 2 May 1945. The Soviet troops entered the building on 30 April but it took them two days to occupy it fully.
What a wonderful video ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I was able to tour West Berlin back in my college days in 1980. So yes, the city was still divided. My group had a tour of the Reichstag and a lecture on the German government. I have a distinct memory of looking out one of the large windows that overlooked the wall and watching the guards in the towers pulling up their binoculars to see all of the college girls in the window. I also remember when our bus drove past the Brandenburg Gate which was part of the Wall. We drove past the Soviet Memorial but couldn't get out to see it because it was the Soviet's and they had built their memorial on the wrong side of the wall. There were still bombed out ruins throughout the city which was striking especially when we went into East Berlin for a couple of hours (thru Checkpoint Charlie) and there were people living in some of the bombed out buildings. We rode the UBahn to some of the museums and at least one of the rail lines went thru East Berlin stations and did not stop, guards very visible.
The Wall itself was a very striking visual (it was a block from our youth hostel) seeing the curtains still hanging in the windows of some of the buildings. I'd love to go back one day and see for myself how the city has changed since reunification.
Thanks for the video lots more to see and learn about!!😎🇬🇧🇺🇦
Several another "Must sees" in Berlin:
1) Tempelhof airport, the "mother" of all modern airports, true megastructure even by modern standards;
2) Schwerbelastungskörper - concrete '"puck" used in research of pressure exerted on soil by gigastructures like Volkshalle;
3)Remains of the flakturms (I see You've covered them in another video).
Thanks for the suggestions Anatolij Cimarkin. I will be making videos on those sites in the future, so be sure to look out for those.
Flakturm Tiergarten
@@williamgriffiths9453 The 3 Flakturm sites in Berlin were 1. Zoo (southwest corner of Tiergarten) - that one completely vanished 2. Friedrichshain - demolished, forming hills (Mont Klamott) in the Volkspark Friedrichshain and 3. Humboldthain - partially demolished, north fassade still more or less intact and visible, now a viewing platform in a park. If you want to see complete Flaktürme you need to visit Hamburg or Vienna.
@@williamgriffiths9453 It isn't there. The British Army blew it up after the war, and after a struggle.
Absolutely brilliant video. Can't wait to see it in October 👍🏴👍
Please read my comments above, David.
@@ColinH1973 hi Colin, I can't seem to find the comment from you. Can you please send it to me. Thanks 👍
I found the comment Colin. Thanks very much. I'm going to look into the places you mentioned and see if I can get to see them when I get there,
It's only a 2 day trip so hopefully I'll have enough time to take it all in. Cheers again 👍 👍
The Reichstag building was probably not well liked by Hitler because the building is a Tartarian style building. Hitler as an artist and architect had the appreciation for the Roman buildings with large pillars and high ceilings and marble.
The site where Baron Vo Stafenberg was executed. My Aunt had an Apt. across the canal where this happened.
There’s Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Olympic stadium and Tempelhof Airport. Plus the remains of the Berlin Wall.
in some ex-DDR parts of the city you can stil lsee something that is very likely holes from shellings. I noticed them close to the Ostkreuz.
Very interesting video! Thank you :) But I'd like to see a video about the German resistance
Parabéns pelo vídeo !!!!!
I’ve heard that the video of Hitler awarding Iron Cross medals to those poor children was actually in mid March ‘45. You could be right. Just a thought.
My neighbor was born in Berlin in 1940. She said the Soviets commited terrible crimes against the women of East Berlin. Her family members were attacked. He father was shot off of a horse in Odessa and her uncle was killed in Stalingrad 2 weeks after he went home to handle his brothers affairs. War can be brutal.
What about the Olympic Stadium too, where Hitler and his cronies used to hold mass rally’s before and during the first years of the war?
Richtig. You must see that. More hitler......
Wouldn't consider it "walking distance" from the Reichstag...
Amazing concept. Would have been better if you showed more of the overall place than just a glimpse
Even though not in walking distance of central Berlin the Olympiastadion and the entire olympic park is in my opinion one of the, if not the best historical site, at least in regards of the Nazi era.
Aww...Matt. We saw you in January during one of your tours around Berlin.
Even w the mistakes still fascinating
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This guy sounds like a newsreader.. suits it well
Hello. How many days would one plan for this tour please?
I would have included the House of the Wannsee Conference site.
Berlin is an amazingly beautiful city.
It is Heinrich Heine, not Heinrich Hein. The last e is not silent.
More more more! Great!
Nice job!
amazing
Did they ever turn the top of the Brandenburg gate back around after 1989?
I visited Berlin in June 1989. I hear there have been a few changes since. :-)
10 for 10!
I would add Karlshorst Museum in east Berlin, where the Nazis signed the surrender. Amazing museum in the middle of housing with hardly any visitors full of great soviets/ German equipment uniforms. It was a casino for the German Army and the Soviets used it as their HQ.
I would have included the House of the Wannsee Conference.
You should've made it very clear where each of these sites stood during the Cold War; in East or West Berlin.
Unfortunately you forgot Tempelhof airport...
Mate? Love your videos. Why have you stopped?
You missed Tempelhof. I know it is not in walking distance.
Maybe the flak tower could have been Included
For those that know history and exactly what happen Berlin was brutally victimized by the allied powers civilian men used to clean up the mess they left and dig graves for the fallen soldiers and those civilians killed women were rape massively 2 million in Berlin alone kids died of starvation or by trying to defend theyre mothers getting raped the atrocities done by the alleged liberators was sickening
Not near as bad as what the Germans did in the rest of Europe.