Berlin in the 20s

[Addiskrilla]

Wow. So this is how Germany was before it went straight to hell

[MrCarreradude]

musik von hans carste / rudi schuricke - guter mond.

tolles video. muss eine atemberaubende zeit gewesen sein. und berlin erst.

[Toby48624]

Otto Reutter ganz am Ende =)

[sukka113]

so beautiful. Shits all over this modern piece of shit i live in

[MSGDK]

/watch?v=f1R3k9Wc2kU

[honestabe1991]

Love this video! Kinda wish I lived back then in my favorite city in the world.

[HistoryBuff75]

I am going to Berlin for a week vacation this September. Can't wait to visit the museums.

[rauber70]

Super schoen! Danke! Welche Musik hast Du dazu synkronisiert? Nice! which music did you dub to this clip?

[RapAcrossTheWorld]

This is so great. I am born and raised in Berlin. Love it!

[melomane113]

tell us the title of the movie please!

[desolate1959]

no wonder the National Socialists came to power.rich gits living it up while the vast majority lived in despair.88

[SportySplitGirl]

What an awesome capital we have/had! :)

[brv1848]

Die Musik stammt allerdings aus den späten 30ern!

[rauber70]

Vielen Dank! Echt klasse! wie heisst die Musik?

[NoirFan01]

Great glimpses of Berlin between the wars. It looks so properous, however. How long did the hyper-inflation of the Reichmark last?

[MrSKINFLICK]

@NoirFan01: The hyper-inflation of the Reichsmark was 1923/24.

[Videomanjohn]

Thanks for this historic look at Berlin.

[mutley0777]

Wales is a dump Don't go there ever Really don't do it You will regret it

[nickwallacesmith]

actually i like it as much as the first - i think it's just a matter of different subject matter - equally interesting - love the sound track - can you say who the singer is? thanks for making and uploading it

[mikeymike1960]

excellent quality! amazing footage

[mutley0777]

What a dump

[vHumboldt77]

@mutley0777 - your opinion...respectable, not shareable.

[bannistg]

Well done! This is a wonderful documentary of the times. These poor people had little idea of the nightmare that awaited them. If only Wall Street hadn't crashed and Wilson's 14 points had been accepted and put into effect, maybe then the nightmare could have been avoided. Many thanks for this footage!

[EutuveX]

@bannistg

fuck off...the war began when Germany had recovered from those "predicaments-excuses" you point out...The Germany of September 1939 was the most advanced country in the whole world...Germans just went crazy by themselves ...

Wall Street my arse ! 

[bannistg]

@EutuveX I'm afraid, I must strongly disagree with your thesis - countries just don't go 'crazy by themselves' - the reasons are always far more complex and indeed, alarming. In the mid- 20's, the Nazi party received less than 3% support in elections. It was the worsening economic situation which precipitated the rise of extreme nationalism. As regards to your statement that a country run by fascists can be regarded as 'advanced' - here I feel we must differ on our definition of that word.

[EutuveX]

@bannistg dear bunny, ADVANCED :1. Highly developed or complex.

2. Being at a higher level than others: an advanced text in physics.

3. Ahead of the times; progressive...

°°

I'll say it again : "Germany had recovered from those "predicaments-excuses" you point out...The Germany of September 1939 was the most advanced country in the whole world...Germans just went crazy by themselves ..."

Poor people my arse .. bewitched by a fucking psycko with mustache !

[dasboogiewoogie1]

Moin, Moin from Texas!

If you like the Golden entertainment of the 1920s, you might like Brendan McNally's dark comic novel "Germania" (Simon & Schuster, 2009), about the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers, four somewhat magical, Jewish vaudeville entertainers and onetime child stars who were the toast of Berlin before WWII and who reunite during the surreal, three-week "Flensburg Reich" of Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's very unlucky successor.

[TheIloveberlin]

wonderful video

i love the roaring twenties

now berlin begin to become the new roaring twenties

now it is a beautifull city

[RahmSifr]

The music rather belongs to the 30s than 20s, but the video itself is MAGNIFICENT!

[ronaldrobin]

If only we could go back in time and resolve all the issues. I would love to be able to walk through the past to take in the atmosphere of the time to sit and talk and make friends. Its thanks to people who kept the footage and the music that today we can enjoy the past as it was. Berlin looks magical.

[alontas]

Of all the videos I´ve watched, this is perhaps the best: the movie resolution is very good, and very interesting indeed. And the music is beautiful. I wonder if it is possible to know the lyrics of this version of "Guter Mond". I've tried to find them in Google, but under the name of the song is a different one. Thank you very much.

[roybo1930]

GOD I`D LOVE TO BE SUROUNDED BY THESE BEAUTIFUL CAR`S!!! This is My style, What a AWSOME video. BUT VERY SAD! It`s almost as if there wasen`t a care in the world! Everything seens so civilized, BUT just around the corner HELL AWAITS!

[RahmSifr]

WOW! One of the best videos I've seen in ages, I suppose.

[alontas]

This is one of the best videos I have found in youtube. And I have seen hundreds. Many with bad resolution of image, or not good sound quality. This is excellent: the music is beautiful, the images very well presented, the sound, very good. Congratulations.

[JuanPaBJxGothic]

oh it's nice, at least they already have vehicles, if you watch a 1900s or 1890s films you can watch horses on the city.

[alontas]

I have tried to find the lyrics of this beautiful song, but couldn't. Does anybody know them? My German is sehr abscheuliche. Viele Dank

[boxerinj]

If only the Treaty of Versailles had been more like the treaty France got after Napoleon's defeat.

[vHumboldt77]

Absolutely --but don't forget that circumstances were totally different. The Bourbons were exiled in Britain, Alexander of Russia was very considerate for France, Bonaparte himself was married to one of his arch-enemies' daughter and, last but not least, France had a brilliant and inescrupulous diplomat, Talleyrand, who ushered the country from defeated party to promiment member of the Holy Alliance emerging from the Congress of Vienna...

[boxerinj]

Shows the difference royalty made and then did not make in a span of 100 years. Poor Germany.....Poor 1930s/40s Europe!

[acerb45666555]

such a nice city! if only that little corporal hadnt been born!!

[vHumboldt77]

in History such far reaching events barely depend on the will of one man...be that for good or for evil.

[Robert01O]

1:16 is german City Leipzig

2:46 is Otto Reutter, Humorist from the Wintergarten

[DominikDrinkhahn]

that was the world of the prosperous berliners profiting from the stock market crash, and other rich ones we create that ideal of. The reality looked different.

[Alfruna]

yes I know. I had another video who showed more of reality and the life of the poor but Youtube deleted it because of copyright claims or something...

[powert0me]

id like to see that.

[Oldsteamer2]

@DominikDrinkhahn nobody in Germany prospered from the 1929 crash, caused by the brainless American idea that anybody can get rich by buying stocks on credit and using the expectation on climbing stock value for issueing more credit. To make things worse, the Americans have not learned and repeated that folly.

[nuevageneracion7]

Very similar to what I was in Caracas for about 30 years ago or more ...

[Hadewijch]

PS. I mean, do you or anyone know the EXACT (year(s) they were filmed. ;)

[Hadewijch]

Actually, I think it shows a very good sense of rhythm. The choice of clips is very good, very interesting, and the go very well with the music.

But where did you find the clips?

And do you know the year(s) they were filmed?

[solarisgalrocks]

makes you wonder about us today since what destroyed that whole culture was unemployment and economic instability. "Winter Garten" - eerie how they have a remake of that here in nyc.

[jozefsterkens]

Misstinguet at 1:32, she was in Berlin around 1930

[macNjulia]

Berlin in the 1920s was certainly exciting. The new democratic republic: more political, social and personal freedom than ever before. Berlin: international melting pot for artists, investors and bohemiens. For others it was an overcrowded city with a galloping inflation rate and poverty. One has to understand that many Germans felt very uneasy throughout those 'Roaring Twenties' and longed for another 'ueber father' figure like the 'Kaiser'. Hitler and his party were already active since1919.

[PetrusRuppert]

Great view of Old Berlin

[thatguyashe]

I wonder how many of those smiling kids became Nazis.

[vHumboldt77]

I'd rather not generalize --not all Germans were Nazis and not all Nazis were German...It's politically correct to paint things "black and white", but -luckily enough- reality is more nuanced...

[thatguyashe]

Well of course. It's just amazing for me to see the video and everyone so happy and having a good time, then it's like bam! Everything changed. I'm sure some of them were. I'm sure some were not. It's just all really interesting to me.

[vHumboldt77]

Got your point --and I agree, there's an odd feeling when seeing these images...so many lives perished, so many places destroyed and never recovered, a bright, bustling city turned into ashes just 15 years later. Even today, Berlin is just a shadow of what it whas in those days...Best rgds, Patricio

[thatguyashe]

Yeah, it is a very odd feeling. I don't even fully understand it, nor do I know how to explain it. But it's always a bit strange to watch the footage, like seeing the happiness before those filmed ever knew what was coming. It's sorta mistical.

[vHumboldt77]

one more! 1:23 / 1:26, a branch of the famous Hamburg-Amerika Linie, the cruiser and cargo company (I guess, the forbearer of today's Hamburg Süd), which luxury liners travelled between Hamburg, Bremen and New York...

[vHumboldt77]

For all those who love Berlin as I do, I recommend the following: "Berlin: Then and Now" by Peter Gay and "Berlin: Phoenix im Sand - Glanz und Elend der Hauptstadt" by Wolf Jobst Siedler. There are many more but those two are real "musts"!

[Deader87]

I love that 20s European feel myself

[unicorn1221]

nice song!

[ExmormonFoundation]

The song is "Guter Mond" performed by the Hans Carste Tanzorchester. You can find it on Amazon in the mp3 section.

[unicorn1221]

nice song

[devilsclickingcanes]

This is fascinating. What are the sources for the video? What are some of the specific locations shown? Thanks in advance.

[vHumboldt77]

Here go some of the places (others are I cannot recognize): minute 1:10 of the video is Potsdamer Platz, minute 1:14 is most surely Unter den Linden corner to Friedrichstrasse, minute 1:31 /1:34 ist Under den Linden and then the Brandenburger Tor, minutes 1:35 / 1:46 is the Kurfurstendamm (you may recognize the big church at the back, which is the Kaiser Wilhelm's Memorial Church, badly damaged in the II War and left in ruins with a new modern church having built close by

[vHumboldt77]

Minute 0:44 to 0:54 could well be a Kondotorei in the Zoologischen Garten area, the lake in 0:56 could be Gruenewald, and all the cafes after 1:50 could be either on Unter den Linden or the Ku'damm

[jack48083]

I so much would have liked to be in Berlin in the 20s and visit all the raunchy nightclubs and to see a young Marlene Dietrich. It must have been a lot of fun to kive so carefree before aids and before technology created so many barriers between people.

[glenalanwells]

neither technology or barriers create themselves.

people create people. people create technology.

people create barriers......and people tear them down.

I so much would like to be in the 20's of this century...

where simulations of Berlin in the 20's may be available.....courtesy of the barrier building and tearing down technological peoples.

[hoffmann9471]

Ein Super Video !!!!

Danke

[SaraCroft666]

jahnich...die currywurst ist berlinerin!

[rochelimit55555]

It's like different planet!

[RheingoldxxL]

... und Currywurst kommt immer noch aus Hamburg!

[hoffmann9471]

ja ja, aber die Berliner machen sie besser als wir.... ist leider wahr...

[daniellearis]

who is this music by?

[private221261]

WOW! This is almost 90 years ago. I can't believe it!

[cannuckistan]

It's a shame what the war did to Berlin, one of the world's great cities. I liked my visit to modern Berlin, but I would have preferred to have seen some parts of the old city.

[aka99]

@cannuckistan yeah, but watch photos and use your imiganation :)

[EutuveX]

@cannuckistan

a shame what the Germans did to Berlin by following the sissy-non arian -Devil with funny mustache ...

Devils appear..we let them grow by ignorance or apaty..

[TheRiqzster]

@EutuveX And thank goodness for that funny mustache. If it weren't for that, I'd look just like him . . .

[MrSKINFLICK]

@cannuckistan: Berlin was "only" destroyed 60%, the districts of Steglitz, Dahlem, Wilmersdorf and Schöneberg still have the charm of many older buildings ! But one could weep what kind of destrcution the Nazis drew into the country....they were organized criminals in power.

[thankGodforDavidG]

Als ich dieses Video beobachte,erinnere ich

mich an Berlin 1945. Traenen und mehr Traenen.

Ich bete das nichts wie das jemals wieder

geschehen. Berlin ist die Stadt von Helden !!

[thankGodforDavidG]

Traenen und mehr Traenen,wie ich dieses Video

beobachte. Wenn ich mich an Berlin 1945 erinnere. Meine deutschen Brueder und Schwestern,ich bete das nichts wie das wird jemals wieder geschehen. Deutschland ist

eine Nation von Helden !!!

[johnnycchops]

What's the song called and the name of the band and the singer? Its wonderful.

[MICHELMUSIK123]

Très beau document

Schöner Dokumentarfilm

[mariadelamor21]

Really beautiful. Delight. To my favs.

[nandor41]

Excellent. Great and beautiful work. Congratulations

[LeamingtonSteve]

then the Nazis......

[pedrobaia1]

the first video, i think, was with a beautiful marlene dietrich song. it was an excellent video... i don´t understand why it was removed... all the best!

[nickwallacesmith]

i loved watching it! it makes me keen to see the first video! what's its title - i've tried (unsuccessfully ) to find it. thanks. nick

[deiktes]

I accidentally found this video, while searching something totally irrelevant, and I think it is so good that I'll go and have a look at the first one...

[hoffmann9471]

Dies ist auch grosse Klasse. Man ist da direkt "drin" , als könnte man in diese Zeit springen.

War damals neben Paris die schönste Stadt der Welt. 5*****

[toronstganymede]

... very beautiful ...

[jurek46pink]

Wonderful Weimar-Zeiten Berlin ! I love it.

Only regret that music was taken from already-Nazi Zeiten.

[Weimar1919]

Sehr gut!

Exacltly what I wanted to watch!