another regret is not filming inside the East Berlin department store called 'Centrum', especially the signs in 4 languages (German, Russian, English and one other language, which may have been Polish) about how certain goods could only be bought by people with Berlin residency cards - ie: people who lived in (E) Berlin!
@citytransportinfo The other language i think you're looking for it French! Remember, Berlin and Germany was divided between Britain, France, America and Russia! =)
@citytransportinfo Thanks for visiting our city :) It is maybe not beautiful in every part, but which major city is? The history of Berlin is interesting, I wish I knew the old U-Bahn and S-Bahn routes, the S-Bahn which drove through Friedrichstraße. I think more than 1 line drove from west to west through east-berlin, the U8 is going from north to south through "Mitte" (district named "middle") in the east, it stopped at Moritzplatz thats what I know and restarted maybe at Gesundbrunnen?!
My visit to Berlin in December 1989 was to experience history in the making. One regret is not having a camcorder in December 1989 - I was filming the Berlin wall from a west Berlin S-bahn with super 8 (silent) camera and a lady was shouting hysterically about how the border guards might see me and arrest me.
My visit in April 1990 was to film with a camcorder some aspects of the transport scene and Berlin in general which I knew would soon be changing. (cont...)
@NKCrime first we have to get past the G20 meeting next week, when the US$ may face serious issues and perhaps even worse. To learn more read up about Clif High, the web bots (webbots / webots). The reunification of Berlin happened when the Soviet system collapsed. The speculation is that the western capitalist system is about to go the same way too. The budget deficits are too great and banks too broke. Possibly within less than a week from now. (7th Nov)
The Berliners hated the wall and the division of their city so apart from a small section for tourists removed the lot.
Near 'Checkpoint Charlie' the wall was replaced with a double line of cobble stones in the ground. Nowadays its hard to imagine that it was there at all, as the area has been built up / is bustling with life and the distances are so small that it takes next to no time to walk from what was east to west (or vice versa).
@boozouz They left a few as reminders. In fact there is one section on Bernauer Strasse that is still intact complete with Wall, the death strip, towers, patrol road and inner fence on former east side. It is a museum of sorts. Interesting place for Westerners. Of course most of the fmr. East Berliners avoid it - bad memories.
I was 22 when I visited in 82 west and east berlin. I remember going in an tunnel or a U station to east berlin. There we went to a small green cabin pistashio color & mirror coverded walls. then my passport was stamped it was really nice to visit. But people looked so strict and were very serious, perhaps their were afraid to talk to us or being watched by police.
@citytransportinfo It is Friedrichstrasse Station. No graffiti, no homeless lying around...it is in East. I used to be DDR Polizist. Very good video from 1989. Strange to be able to walk into Westberlin without authorisation papers from superiors. Of course, no such papers exist for us.
@resfalgio actually we humans are not 'just' animals.
We are spiritual beings (in amnesia) from other dimensions having a human experience. At some stage between now and the end of 2013 we are supposed to 'wake up' and remember this.
WEST (FRG) and EAST (GDR) BERLIN : Checkpoint Charlie" was not the colloquial name for the crossing. There were three checkpoints, all designated according to the phonetic alphabet used by the Western Allies: Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie...
C'est avec une certaine émotion que je revois ce film, ayant vécu à Berlin de 1978 à 1982. J'y étais militaire français et passait très souvent à l'Est par ce point de passage!
16 Denn also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, daß er seinen
eingeborenen Sohn gab, damit alle, die an ihn glauben, nicht verloren werden, sondern das ewige Leben haben.
18 Wer an ihn glaubt, der wird nicht gerichtet; wer aber nicht glaubt, der ist schon gerichtet, denn er glaubt nicht an den Namen des eingeborenen Sohnes Gottes.
having watched your video we thought that you may enjoy our video about the reunification of Germany. It is called CARLOTTA TRUMAN -1DAS SUPERTALENT FINALISTIN - BREAK DOWN THE WALLS-THE VIDEO and is onour website
"Checkpoint Charlie" wasn't the colloquial name for the crossing. There were three checkpoints, all designated according to the phonetic alphabet used by the Western Allies: Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie.
Arabs are generally agressive and stupid people who dont understand friendly behavior. They think in the Desert culture kind. Attack, robbery and surpress your neighbours if possible. The few Shiite Arabs are more moderate and civilized than the Sunni ones. Disgusting Camels are even nationalist, pan-arabist, racist and arab imperial ultra-islamists.
Check on your own if you see one of these Desert-Animals called arab.
Even without knowing the date of this footage a Berliner could have dated it on details--the sell off of DDR Regalia (there was a gorgeous blonde there selling officer hats I seem to remember), the excessive damage to the west side of the wall(impossible to vandalise the wall in this sector before Nov 89) but also notice the VOPOS pretending to control the crossing into East Berlin. April 1990. I was there
easy, if your poor, and must work for money, so you could get some food for your own family...
and them some jerks called hitler, comes and says that he can work here if he just make weapons / other stuffs...
well it then ends with hitler giving all humans a better life, and if he gives someone a better life, then he can take it back aswell, do you believe that those humans will forfeit they new good and better life ?...
@hakan324 I understand what you mean. However once you and your family are fed, clothed and housed you can turn your mind to other things. Such as not following the orders of monsters like Hitler or the bloody communists.
Remember that every time some politician complains about "evil profits" banks, oil, or insurance companies make. This is the world of government control--a wall to keep you IN!
Look, Communism sucks because it's goal is anarchy, Stalin just kind of came in and said "lol genocide" and fucked shit up.
Government control is not bad, you just can't go in and want total control or total loss of control. Each issue and each bill should be looked at objectively, not just decried as communistic or libertarian.
Anarchy is not the goal of communism but rather its opposite. Communism preys on fear of anarchy. People that are afraid they will have to do for themselves give up freedoms for what they think will be security. Look at the Obamacare debate--some people want "free" healthcare but in return if you don't buy health insurance you don't want you go to jail. Watch John Stossel, he does great pieces on how much better things work when people are allowed to decide for themselves.
It's obviously filmed after the wall was opened. Even thinking of filming like this would have been punished before the fall. And You can hear this from the speaker text.
I think you are right with the time when it was filmed but I think the video could be filmed before anyway. Filming in the west of Berlin was not restricted. I just can't imagine the GDR would tell a civilian of Berlin-West to hand them his/her video so they can make it disappear.
But also I have to say, I was born right in that time when the wall opened. So it's just my guess and logic! :)
I was at Checkpoint Charlie in 1979. It was pretty gloomy early that morning and very few people around. Went inside a souvenir shop next to the Checkpoint and bought a couple of posters.
See that table full of military look hats/caps? That was what happened after the collapse of the Communist East German sector. The people there, mostly military sold off all the old Soviet and Communist military equipment to tourist. Anyone and I mean anyone could buy it. For some odd reason it was seen as collectibles. I guess it could have been since you didnt see East German or Soviet made military gear hear in the west. But there sure is alot of it now I bet.
people of east-germany felt like in a big cage, but people of west-berlin were in a golden bird cage. they were surrounded by the east and the rest of the "west" was far away.
@KanneloreHohl I always wonder how the West-Berliners were able to build their part of the city. They were fully surrounded by the GDR and couldn't have possibly just airlifted everything in from West Germany ?!
in the beginning yes, there had to be an air bridge, but later the west build autobahnen across the east to the west, the east got money for this and the west paid everything, there was a diplomatic contact between the two states.
Too much hypocricy from USA and E.U about the wall...they shout about the berlin wall but they support the wall that the zionist made in Palestine and the turkish wall in the occupied Nicosia Cyprys...HYPOCRICY
But isn't all this after the wall came down? It seems a bit pointless and captures none of the atmosphere. I was lucky enough to go through Checkpoint Charlie pre-1989 a few times and through the Friedrichstrasse station checkpoint. The atmosphere was far starker than this film suggests.
That was amazing. One massive city divided for two different worlds. I've never been in Berlin in my life, but i wish to go there and see at least contrast after berlin wall.
Thank you very much. When was this recorded? I've been there on three occasions and I just felt the chills up my spine when watching this. Maybe because I'm not German? =)
yes there is a difference between east and west..east is much better now :))they are still devoloping the east side of berlin and because of this east is newer than west..
It's unbelievable how one individual could cause so much damage to the country!!! A question to germans: Is there a big difference between eastern and western germans now? ( old generation I mean here) Thanks in advance!
The wall still exists in their minds. In general they blame each other for former and current political problems. They miss "the good old times because everything was better". The sadest thing is that they influence the younger generation (like me) and so even the youths start fighting each other even if they weren't involved. Everytime I watch this video it makes me cry. I share the feelings the people had in 1989. A great historical moment. But it seems the people have forgotten about it.
there is much more to why Hitler did what he did than simply to grab more land...
Even before the war the Germans were investigating Antartica, and there is still a secret colony down there... much is not known publically. Visit Project Camelot online and read about some of whats going on 'out of sight'.
Umm... wow! You don't actually believe there's a "secret nazi colony" in the antarctic, do you? If you do... May I suggest you post the Google Earth pictures of it.
I realise that this will stretch credulity, but that a whole lot more, yes. (btw, its underground).
Gary McKinnon, the Londoner who the US wants to extradite for hacking into NASA found evidence which suggests that rumours of the US having a clandestine fleet of space capable aircraft really is true.
What technology do they use? and if used by civilians could it solve problems with fossil fuel sourced air pollution - and end the need for nuclear power stations?
Yes. You've stretched credulity to its breaking point.
Your 3 questions are quite irrelevant if the above statement isn't true.
Where is this fleet? What is a "fleet"? 100 "space planes"? 1,000 "space planes"? What company built them? Where were they tested? What proofs does McKinnon offer of their existence?
THESE are the questions a thinking man asks first.
Go to the freegary (dot) org (dot) uk website, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on 'archives'.
Go to May 2006 and read the notes about the BBC interview - if you follow the link you will see info about some of what he found when hacking NASA, and although it does not mention the American aircraft I talked about (I'm still looking for his exact words) in many ways what is said is even more revealing.
I'd rather not generate traffic for nonsense websites. I asked you some pretty basic questions. It's quite hard to hide a "fleet" of aircraft. So while you're making asenine opinions about the U.S., using little green men as your "fact"... why not prove your initial statements first.
Really... now it's time to show what you can prove... or what is fantasy.
This should lead to my primary source of information - an interview with Gary on 5th July 2005 and published by The Guardian newspaper (London), which I hope you will accept as being a more 'mainstream' source of information.
As the link is very long I've used 'tinyurl' to create a custom alias.
Bravo) and crossed Checkpoint Charlie in Oct 1985. Everyone was friendly brought back nice souvenirs. Does anyone know the name of a old underground U-Bahn tunnel they made into a club of sorts on the West Side. I want to find more history about it.
When I was six years old, I got to stand on the american tanks and look through the 4 inch barrel of the M60 facing the soviet tank. It was squarely pointed at the Soviet tank commander. After I looked, they replaced the 2 foot long shell.
mein gott sieht das auf der ost seite verkommen aus!!!
ich kann mich noch daran erinnern als meine eltern mit mir in den osten rüberfuhren.....die häuser waren alle total abgewrackt, die straßen waren fast nicht mehr befahrbar, und wenn man telefonieren wollte gab es nirgendwo nen telefon....und zu dem wurde man von den ossi's doof angeglotzt wenn man mit nem dicken Mercedes in den osten rein fuhr! :D
ahaha was für ein Schwachmat bist du denn, mit deinem dicken Mercedes, ich wette in echt bist du so arm das du nichtmal deinen Solizuschlag zahlen konntest
das kann ich auch, und die Straßen waren befahrbar, vor allem in Berlin, weil das die Vorzeigestadt der DDR war, mh vielleicht hast du heute eine dicke Brille ? ich meine das es keine Telefonzellen gab ist irgendwie logisch, nur jeder 5. oder so hatte überhaupt ein Telefon zu Hause und das die Leute doof gucken wenn einer in einem Mercedes vorfährt, wo alle anderen Trabant und Wartburg fahren ist mehr als verständlich...leider stellst du echt nen Klischéwessi dar und das in deinem alter...
...meine Mama hatte ein Telefon (dienstlich), damit habe ich immer nach West-Berlin telefoniert. ...und "die, welche noch nie vorher im Westen waren" haben immer mitgehört...., hihi hihi (zu welchen "Erkenntnissen" die gekommen sind, weiß ich bis heute nicht?)
I'm not sure I would not refer to Checkpoint Charlie as a 'colloquial name', as it is taken directly from the NATO phonetic alphabet / international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, the most widely used spelling alphabet in the world.
Checkpoint A ("Alpha") near Helmstedt, Checkpoint B ("Bravo") near Drewitz, and Checkpoint C ("Charlie") at Friedrichstrasse,
Joe Shmo and your successful high end businessman can both be happy because they can choose what's right for themselves without any consent from high above..lol. In a communist or socialist like system, the government comes before the people not the other way around which is what causes Person A to get angry when he wants more than Person B.
in free market society you can sell off bonds to get capital moving again. Whereas in a socialistic like system the bonds don't meet the supply and demand because not enough money is made in a socialist or communist like system. Only so much money can come from taxes and other government charges. Like I said the system doesn't work the minute the guy next door wants more than what that system allows him to do. If the sky is the limit, there's no limit as to how much you can do.
but atleast we can start from scratch and rebuild. in a socialistic like system you don't have any capital to start things moving again, largely because you get taxed through the roof and what not. Besides socialism may work for some but not for others. The system is broken the minute someone wants more than what that system can give them. In a free market society both the guy that wants very little and the guy that wants a lot can get what they want. There's no ceiling. It's up to you.
Right...socialism is heaven, that's why people lost their lives trying to escape from it. People like you show how history repeats itself, millions of people have died in vain.
it was not the socialism that wa sa problem. It was the the human politics which kept people in like prisoners.
I admit that I used to think that capitalism is better, but when I see the mess we are all in right now, with banks loosing £billions and how much it is all costing the taxpayers -so I wonder if there is not a need a for a third way which is neither capitalism nor socialism.
In 1989 we all thought that the 'west' had 'won'. In 2008 we too lost. Our economies are now bankrupt.
Why disgusting? Those are souvenir vendors selling communist and military bric-a-brac from East Germany and Russia. There were a lot of thise in 1990, some are still around. Isn't a touristy sight on the Berlin wall the perfect place for it?
I visited the site of Checkpoint Charlie at the weekend. There's a comprehensive outdoor exhibition about it, stretching along the site of the wall. Well worth an afternoon's reading.
Change your phone!
jonojms 2 months ago
@FSUxProductions I came here cuz i love hostory :)
Bonelessz 4 months ago
Visited E Berlin in '81, '83 and '85, living in RO at that time, Berlin Wall will ever stay in mind for the rest of my life.
GOD BLESS FREEDOM
401RoadWarrior 4 months ago
1:02 Soviet hats, i want to buy one, awsome I would go If the East was still there, and USSR, but now its a piece of shit, and no one cares...
vilnius194 7 months ago
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Davidsbeenhere 10 months ago
@FSUxProductions NO KID
bodyharvester18 10 months ago
i came her because call of duty black ops map pack
devon0627 10 months ago
0;01 to skip adds
carlcool1997 11 months ago
@FSUxProductions XJaws's a douche
MrLangbestur 11 months ago
@ooOScouseSniperOoo
oh thanks for the insult internet tough guy... sigh
maggot304 11 months ago
@ooOScouseSniperOoo
is this related to the video?
i don't think so
maggot304 11 months ago
berlinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
BrasilAlmaReggae 1 year ago
0:47 Always this turky ppl in germany :-S
Yplayboy51Y 1 year ago
another regret is not filming inside the East Berlin department store called 'Centrum', especially the signs in 4 languages (German, Russian, English and one other language, which may have been Polish) about how certain goods could only be bought by people with Berlin residency cards - ie: people who lived in (E) Berlin!
Simon
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
@citytransportinfo The other language i think you're looking for it French! Remember, Berlin and Germany was divided between Britain, France, America and Russia! =)
liverpoolledge16 10 months ago
@citytransportinfo Thanks for visiting our city :) It is maybe not beautiful in every part, but which major city is? The history of Berlin is interesting, I wish I knew the old U-Bahn and S-Bahn routes, the S-Bahn which drove through Friedrichstraße. I think more than 1 line drove from west to west through east-berlin, the U8 is going from north to south through "Mitte" (district named "middle") in the east, it stopped at Moritzplatz thats what I know and restarted maybe at Gesundbrunnen?!
KilonBerlin 8 months ago
What is / are xJaws?
My visit to Berlin in December 1989 was to experience history in the making. One regret is not having a camcorder in December 1989 - I was filming the Berlin wall from a west Berlin S-bahn with super 8 (silent) camera and a lady was shouting hysterically about how the border guards might see me and arrest me.
My visit in April 1990 was to film with a camcorder some aspects of the transport scene and Berlin in general which I knew would soon be changing. (cont...)
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
Black ops!
zekeperez34 1 year ago
black ops !
Pr0fessorHenry 1 year ago
GERMONY IS THE BEST!!!I LOVE YOU!!!
LuckyHut0RealEstate 1 year ago
Now the 38th parallel is the most heavily defended border in the world.
OptimalDistortion 1 year ago
soon we will be meeting people who were not born from mothers on Earth.
Possibly before Christmas. Some of these people will look so similar to us that you would only know this if you were told.
Simon
Simon
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
@citytransportinfo not seriously xD
NKCrime 1 year ago
@NKCrime first we have to get past the G20 meeting next week, when the US$ may face serious issues and perhaps even worse. To learn more read up about Clif High, the web bots (webbots / webots). The reunification of Berlin happened when the Soviet system collapsed. The speculation is that the western capitalist system is about to go the same way too. The budget deficits are too great and banks too broke. Possibly within less than a week from now. (7th Nov)
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
@citytransportinfo So what has "soon we will be meeting people who were not born from mothers on earth" to do with that?
NKCrime 1 year ago
@citytransportinfo about you msg to resfalgio... i was born from a woman on earth
BellaforLee 1 year ago
How old is this video???
I think they should have left the observations towers, just for history.
boozouz 1 year ago
@boozouz
04 / 1990. (April 1990).
The Berliners hated the wall and the division of their city so apart from a small section for tourists removed the lot.
Near 'Checkpoint Charlie' the wall was replaced with a double line of cobble stones in the ground. Nowadays its hard to imagine that it was there at all, as the area has been built up / is bustling with life and the distances are so small that it takes next to no time to walk from what was east to west (or vice versa).
Simon
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
@boozouz They left a few as reminders. In fact there is one section on Bernauer Strasse that is still intact complete with Wall, the death strip, towers, patrol road and inner fence on former east side. It is a museum of sorts. Interesting place for Westerners. Of course most of the fmr. East Berliners avoid it - bad memories.
4everRomanovs 1 year ago
0:08 what is the name of the U station???
I was 22 when I visited in 82 west and east berlin. I remember going in an tunnel or a U station to east berlin. There we went to a small green cabin pistashio color & mirror coverded walls. then my passport was stamped it was really nice to visit. But people looked so strict and were very serious, perhaps their were afraid to talk to us or being watched by police.
boozouz 1 year ago
@boozouz I think this is Koch Strasser.
Simon
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
@citytransportinfo It is Friedrichstrasse Station. No graffiti, no homeless lying around...it is in East. I used to be DDR Polizist. Very good video from 1989. Strange to be able to walk into Westberlin without authorisation papers from superiors. Of course, no such papers exist for us.
4everRomanovs 1 year ago
@boozouz
U-Bahnhof Kochstraße
aloisbembel 1 year ago
0:08 what is the name of the U station???
boozouz 1 year ago
aus dem checkpoint wurde ein Jeck-point haha
bienenpabst 1 year ago
Ich wundere mich woher die Kanaken , das ganze DDR Plunder her hatten.
Nordpass 1 year ago
checkpoint, humans, we are animals, all.....!!!!
resfalgio 1 year ago
@resfalgio actually we humans are not 'just' animals.
We are spiritual beings (in amnesia) from other dimensions having a human experience. At some stage between now and the end of 2013 we are supposed to 'wake up' and remember this.
Simon
citytransportinfo 1 year ago
WEST (FRG) and EAST (GDR) BERLIN : Checkpoint Charlie" was not the colloquial name for the crossing. There were three checkpoints, all designated according to the phonetic alphabet used by the Western Allies: Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie...
yaloomail 1 year ago
C'est avec une certaine émotion que je revois ce film, ayant vécu à Berlin de 1978 à 1982. J'y étais militaire français et passait très souvent à l'Est par ce point de passage!
jmlp83t 1 year ago
Johannes 3
16 Denn also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, daß er seinen
eingeborenen Sohn gab, damit alle, die an ihn glauben, nicht verloren werden, sondern das ewige Leben haben.
18 Wer an ihn glaubt, der wird nicht gerichtet; wer aber nicht glaubt, der ist schon gerichtet, denn er glaubt nicht an den Namen des eingeborenen Sohnes Gottes.
Offenbarung100 1 year ago
Amazing to see footage of the way Checkpoint Charlie used to be. Thank you for sharing.
GNYBerlin 1 year ago
I did my time during the cold war.....82-84 West Germany...those were the days!
neckarsulme 1 year ago
i've just seen like 20 Trabant in this video
MaurizioM89 1 year ago
This seems to be a video from1990. Those places look completely different today.
Lintflas 1 year ago
Hi
having watched your video we thought that you may enjoy our video about the reunification of Germany. It is called CARLOTTA TRUMAN -1DAS SUPERTALENT FINALISTIN - BREAK DOWN THE WALLS-THE VIDEO and is onour website
God Bless
Clive
comeoneverynation 1 year ago
was that a ford pick up @0:28???
wilatemodel 1 year ago
Gibt es hier denn gar keine Deutschen die das Video sehen? ;-) Es ist ja Berlin!
VG Mathias
skrilaxrev 1 year ago
"Checkpoint Charlie" wasn't the colloquial name for the crossing. There were three checkpoints, all designated according to the phonetic alphabet used by the Western Allies: Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie.
poodleslayer 1 year ago
Arabs are generally agressive and stupid people who dont understand friendly behavior. They think in the Desert culture kind. Attack, robbery and surpress your neighbours if possible. The few Shiite Arabs are more moderate and civilized than the Sunni ones. Disgusting Camels are even nationalist, pan-arabist, racist and arab imperial ultra-islamists.
Check on your own if you see one of these Desert-Animals called arab.
Verfassungsschutzer 1 year ago
I never actually used Checkpoint Charlie although I recall a lady from East Berlin giving me instructions on how to get there!
Civilians had to use Friedrichstrasse!
alanheath 1 year ago
Sehr schönes Video.. freue mich dass es Menschen gibt die sowas für andere bereitstellen, danke !
qualitychecker 1 year ago
Even without knowing the date of this footage a Berliner could have dated it on details--the sell off of DDR Regalia (there was a gorgeous blonde there selling officer hats I seem to remember), the excessive damage to the west side of the wall(impossible to vandalise the wall in this sector before Nov 89) but also notice the VOPOS pretending to control the crossing into East Berlin. April 1990. I was there
CobinRain 1 year ago
Oh i was there.
Uhmad 1 year ago
VERY good video this. Checkpoint Charlie, I remember it well. Good to see the comparisons between then and now.
youtubister 1 year ago
4:30 russian car???
katowice27 1 year ago
How could anybody believe in this communist crap. It beggars belief!!!
aranterranting 1 year ago 2
easy, if your poor, and must work for money, so you could get some food for your own family...
and them some jerks called hitler, comes and says that he can work here if he just make weapons / other stuffs...
well it then ends with hitler giving all humans a better life, and if he gives someone a better life, then he can take it back aswell, do you believe that those humans will forfeit they new good and better life ?...
hakan324 1 year ago
@hakan324 Hakan my friend. English is obviously not your first language. Take your time and write again. Try to be clear about what you mean.
aranterranting 1 year ago
idd -.- my 3rd language....
ohh well the reason that hitler had power and controll over his country because, he gave them work/money and food to they home.
if you help a family much and they will survive of it, then they feel like that they must do everything for the person that helped him.
so if hitler want to kill all jewls then his people will follow him
hakan324 1 year ago
@hakan324 I understand what you mean. However once you and your family are fed, clothed and housed you can turn your mind to other things. Such as not following the orders of monsters like Hitler or the bloody communists.
aranterranting 1 year ago
east was also good i think
all have some work, have no live problems and are safe.
i know there were some problems but dont have everybody land problems? ;)
east or west - boths i think was okay
katowice27 1 year ago
checkpoint butthole
channing789 1 year ago
The first thing Alolf Hitler did when he came to power, was he removed the rights for Germans to freely own firearms.
If the government doesn't trust me with my guns, why should I trust them with theirs.
GodBotherer1 1 year ago
"Them"? YOU are the government, you are the state. It's not "them" and "us", it's only "us".
„L'État, c'est moi applies for every single citizen. Without the people there is no republic, the government is your employee.
xy01 1 year ago 2
I don't live in an entity called a republic, I live in a Constitutional Monarchy.
I live in a country with a culture, not some corporate state part of some New World Order illuminati union based in Brussels,
GodBotherer1 1 year ago
@GodBotherer1
Actually, laws were tightened in 1928 under the Jewish-run Wiemar puppet regime that preceded the Third Reich.
Then, in 1935, Adolf Hitler liberalized gun laws to promote ownership.
LibertaerUeberAlles 1 year ago
gorbatjov is a big hero :D
SuicideMong 1 year ago
there is grafitti on the wall that says 1990
toolboxafun69 2 years ago
because this is April 1990
fafjaafh 2 years ago
Just another reminder how evil communism is.
Remember that every time some politician complains about "evil profits" banks, oil, or insurance companies make. This is the world of government control--a wall to keep you IN!
Srd1126 2 years ago 2
Look, Communism sucks because it's goal is anarchy, Stalin just kind of came in and said "lol genocide" and fucked shit up.
Government control is not bad, you just can't go in and want total control or total loss of control. Each issue and each bill should be looked at objectively, not just decried as communistic or libertarian.
GeneticsFTW 2 years ago
Anarchy is not the goal of communism but rather its opposite. Communism preys on fear of anarchy. People that are afraid they will have to do for themselves give up freedoms for what they think will be security. Look at the Obamacare debate--some people want "free" healthcare but in return if you don't buy health insurance you don't want you go to jail. Watch John Stossel, he does great pieces on how much better things work when people are allowed to decide for themselves.
Srd1126 2 years ago
@GeneticsFTW
the goal of communism is anarchy?? thats not ment serious...
Luxontour 1 year ago
you have to go to berlin it is one of the best citys in world ;)
hanneloreroro 2 years ago
It's obviously filmed after the wall was opened. Even thinking of filming like this would have been punished before the fall. And You can hear this from the speaker text.
ulfpe 2 years ago
I think you are right with the time when it was filmed but I think the video could be filmed before anyway. Filming in the west of Berlin was not restricted. I just can't imagine the GDR would tell a civilian of Berlin-West to hand them his/her video so they can make it disappear.
But also I have to say, I was born right in that time when the wall opened. So it's just my guess and logic! :)
JerriKoe89 2 years ago
I was at Checkpoint Charlie in 1979. It was pretty gloomy early that morning and very few people around. Went inside a souvenir shop next to the Checkpoint and bought a couple of posters.
beerborn 2 years ago
What's the year of video?
Alexander78Mr 2 years ago
I guess 1988-1989
geronimosynthmusic 2 years ago
Lol it was after the wall came down. Look at all these trabbis in West-Berlin! Must be 1990.
usertrt 2 years ago
watch from 1:32 onwards its at least 1990 you can see from the grafitti
woodster1965 2 years ago
See that table full of military look hats/caps? That was what happened after the collapse of the Communist East German sector. The people there, mostly military sold off all the old Soviet and Communist military equipment to tourist. Anyone and I mean anyone could buy it. For some odd reason it was seen as collectibles. I guess it could have been since you didnt see East German or Soviet made military gear hear in the west. But there sure is alot of it now I bet.
wulfshelmut 2 years ago
Lol, the people of East-Berling must have felt like birds in a cage.
wimpie25 2 years ago
people of east-germany felt like in a big cage, but people of west-berlin were in a golden bird cage. they were surrounded by the east and the rest of the "west" was far away.
KanneloreHohl 2 years ago 2
@KanneloreHohl I always wonder how the West-Berliners were able to build their part of the city. They were fully surrounded by the GDR and couldn't have possibly just airlifted everything in from West Germany ?!
Edseltje 2 years ago
in the beginning yes, there had to be an air bridge, but later the west build autobahnen across the east to the west, the east got money for this and the west paid everything, there was a diplomatic contact between the two states.
KanneloreHohl 2 years ago
hmm.. reallly insteresting, thanx for uploading.
Kormos17 2 years ago
Looks like Tijuana Mexico
ElRebeldeDeGuerrero 2 years ago
Great footage. Happy Anniversary!
ScotSNP 2 years ago 4
Too much hypocricy from USA and E.U about the wall...they shout about the berlin wall but they support the wall that the zionist made in Palestine and the turkish wall in the occupied Nicosia Cyprys...HYPOCRICY
gkwnchania 2 years ago 2
Oh i didn't know those walls were meant to keep their people inside.... Jackass.
Xantheus07 1 year ago
When i have seen this video first time,i coudn't imagine that it was made twenty years ago ! The material is of high quallity..Respact!
drguillotin01 2 years ago 20
Thankyou!
Simon :-)
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
yes, absolutely unbelievable....must been a very expensive Recorder....stunning..
manoman0 2 years ago
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Now the NEW Berlin is so much more beatiful .. but Westberlin still rules !
I hate the East !
knallbirne3000 2 years ago
why do you 'hate' the east?
Simon
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
the east was communist. @citytransportinfo
home3363308 1 year ago
Du bist keine Knallbirne, sondern ein Hohlbirne !!!
AirBerl 2 years ago
Whzen I think back to that time !
To that time growing up in this fucking divided Piece of SHit ( I call Berlin)
I also feel like throwing up...
knallbirne3000 2 years ago
Das ist unmittelbar nach Mauerfall? 1990?
orlando318 2 years ago
April 1990
xxWesslxx 2 years ago
But isn't all this after the wall came down? It seems a bit pointless and captures none of the atmosphere. I was lucky enough to go through Checkpoint Charlie pre-1989 a few times and through the Friedrichstrasse station checkpoint. The atmosphere was far starker than this film suggests.
Streatham1966 2 years ago
That was amazing. One massive city divided for two different worlds. I've never been in Berlin in my life, but i wish to go there and see at least contrast after berlin wall.
pawm83 2 years ago
Thank you very much. When was this recorded? I've been there on three occasions and I just felt the chills up my spine when watching this. Maybe because I'm not German? =)
Cristinact 2 years ago
Autos, Autos und autos...das Video ist langweilig
TheMarcfel 2 years ago 2
great movie!
Ruubentje 2 years ago
watch?v=-8TCKOV-4Zc&feature=channel
31HotBoy31 2 years ago
Space planes - phooey! Be very afraid of the Commando Penguins!
peesoup 2 years ago
.....
canayamacan 2 years ago
yes there is a difference between east and west..east is much better now :))they are still devoloping the east side of berlin and because of this east is newer than west..
thugpassion36boyz 2 years ago
What year was this?
1990?
guitigefilmpjes 2 years ago
April 1990.
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
It's unbelievable how one individual could cause so much damage to the country!!! A question to germans: Is there a big difference between eastern and western germans now? ( old generation I mean here) Thanks in advance!
nbkillan1982 2 years ago
The wall still exists in their minds. In general they blame each other for former and current political problems. They miss "the good old times because everything was better". The sadest thing is that they influence the younger generation (like me) and so even the youths start fighting each other even if they weren't involved. Everytime I watch this video it makes me cry. I share the feelings the people had in 1989. A great historical moment. But it seems the people have forgotten about it.
Filinchen84 2 years ago
I mean watching videos about the reunion.
Filinchen84 2 years ago
Thank you for your answer. It seems that we have almost the same problem though everything is over now. ( I am from Azerbaijan) Best regards!!
nbkillan1982 2 years ago
Interesting piece of film. A few more subtitles would enhance it further.
A informative and valuable document which is in sharp contrast to much of the useless trash clogging up the net!
Droxy1940 2 years ago
I wonder what Hitler would think if he saw Berlin and Germany now.
Jonathan5742 2 years ago
i reckon pretty ashamed of himself to be honest! i think he would be furious about the berlin wall knowing it was his fault pretty much!
jackbornin1992 2 years ago
true.... especially since east Germany went total commie after WW2 and Karl Marx was on east German currency.
Jonathan5742 2 years ago
there is much more to why Hitler did what he did than simply to grab more land...
Even before the war the Germans were investigating Antartica, and there is still a secret colony down there... much is not known publically. Visit Project Camelot online and read about some of whats going on 'out of sight'.
Simon
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
Umm... wow! You don't actually believe there's a "secret nazi colony" in the antarctic, do you? If you do... May I suggest you post the Google Earth pictures of it.
Exmech2 2 years ago
I realise that this will stretch credulity, but that a whole lot more, yes. (btw, its underground).
Gary McKinnon, the Londoner who the US wants to extradite for hacking into NASA found evidence which suggests that rumours of the US having a clandestine fleet of space capable aircraft really is true.
What technology do they use? and if used by civilians could it solve problems with fossil fuel sourced air pollution - and end the need for nuclear power stations?
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
Yes. You've stretched credulity to its breaking point.
Your 3 questions are quite irrelevant if the above statement isn't true.
Where is this fleet? What is a "fleet"? 100 "space planes"? 1,000 "space planes"? What company built them? Where were they tested? What proofs does McKinnon offer of their existence?
THESE are the questions a thinking man asks first.
Exmech2 2 years ago
Go to the freegary (dot) org (dot) uk website, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on 'archives'.
Go to May 2006 and read the notes about the BBC interview - if you follow the link you will see info about some of what he found when hacking NASA, and although it does not mention the American aircraft I talked about (I'm still looking for his exact words) in many ways what is said is even more revealing.
more...
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
if you also go to the missing page at my website citytransport(dot)info slash missing(dot)htm you will find more links of related interest.
Simon
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
I'd rather not generate traffic for nonsense websites. I asked you some pretty basic questions. It's quite hard to hide a "fleet" of aircraft. So while you're making asenine opinions about the U.S., using little green men as your "fact"... why not prove your initial statements first.
Really... now it's time to show what you can prove... or what is fantasy.
Exmech2 2 years ago
This should lead to my primary source of information - an interview with Gary on 5th July 2005 and published by The Guardian newspaper (London), which I hope you will accept as being a more 'mainstream' source of information.
As the link is very long I've used 'tinyurl' to create a custom alias.
tinyurl(dot)com(slash)n773n6
Simon
citytransportinfo 2 years ago
i was not in berlin
6083748 2 years ago
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Berlin ist Serbisch stadt.
Dies ist der Ort, dass die Serben
genannte Serbische Namen benennen Brljin.
Nach dem Deutsch besetzten die Stadt und halten
den Namen Berlin.
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veljkosrb 2 years ago
So ein Blödsinn. Berlin und Neukölln waren Orte slawischer Nomaden, die sich nieder gelassen hatten. Da war an Serbien nicht mal zu denken!
bfr2001 2 years ago 2
I crossed in 1987 every one on both sides was very friendly.
michaelwright999 2 years ago 2
We drove a convoy through the corridor (CP Alpha/
Bravo) and crossed Checkpoint Charlie in Oct 1985. Everyone was friendly brought back nice souvenirs. Does anyone know the name of a old underground U-Bahn tunnel they made into a club of sorts on the West Side. I want to find more history about it.
Coppertop71 2 years ago
michaelwright999 Do you still have your Flag Orders for the crossing?
Coppertop71 2 years ago
No I crossed over on a private visit, stayed at hotel metropoll I got 10 east marks for 1 west mark, so I had a great time. and you ?
michaelwright999 2 years ago
When I was six years old, I got to stand on the american tanks and look through the 4 inch barrel of the M60 facing the soviet tank. It was squarely pointed at the Soviet tank commander. After I looked, they replaced the 2 foot long shell.
Merlin5x5 2 years ago
Were you from the west or the east ?
Comrade1999 2 years ago
The cars changed a lot between the 2 picture.
gergely007 2 years ago
ditte wurde aber nich 2007 gedreht oder waaas ? ^^
ScaandaLouuz 2 years ago 3
Ey X0n3 nix gegen den westen ja!!!
rombiki07 2 years ago
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rombiki07 2 years ago
mein gott sieht das auf der ost seite verkommen aus!!!
ich kann mich noch daran erinnern als meine eltern mit mir in den osten rüberfuhren.....die häuser waren alle total abgewrackt, die straßen waren fast nicht mehr befahrbar, und wenn man telefonieren wollte gab es nirgendwo nen telefon....und zu dem wurde man von den ossi's doof angeglotzt wenn man mit nem dicken Mercedes in den osten rein fuhr! :D
X0n3 2 years ago
ahaha was für ein Schwachmat bist du denn, mit deinem dicken Mercedes, ich wette in echt bist du so arm das du nichtmal deinen Solizuschlag zahlen konntest
RediculazZ 2 years ago
ich war damals als meine eltern mit mir in den osten fuhren 5 jahre alt!!!
natürlich war ich noch zu jung um zu verstehn was passiert war, aber ich kann mich dran erinnern was ich dort alles gesehn habe!!!
X0n3 2 years ago
das kann ich auch, und die Straßen waren befahrbar, vor allem in Berlin, weil das die Vorzeigestadt der DDR war, mh vielleicht hast du heute eine dicke Brille ? ich meine das es keine Telefonzellen gab ist irgendwie logisch, nur jeder 5. oder so hatte überhaupt ein Telefon zu Hause und das die Leute doof gucken wenn einer in einem Mercedes vorfährt, wo alle anderen Trabant und Wartburg fahren ist mehr als verständlich...leider stellst du echt nen Klischéwessi dar und das in deinem alter...
RediculazZ 2 years ago
wir waren aber nicht in Ost-Berlin, sondern irgendwo im Harz
X0n3 2 years ago
...meine Mama hatte ein Telefon (dienstlich), damit habe ich immer nach West-Berlin telefoniert. ...und "die, welche noch nie vorher im Westen waren" haben immer mitgehört...., hihi hihi (zu welchen "Erkenntnissen" die gekommen sind, weiß ich bis heute nicht?)
IngoWolfgangRichter 2 years ago
cool! hihihihi, na dann willkommen in Deutschland !!!
IngoWolfgangRichter 2 years ago
Ach so eine schönes Video!!Wann war es? Es sieht ein bischen alt aus
fewoberlin 2 years ago
sieht nach mitte 80er aus.
Spickinator83 2 years ago
nice video thanks.
learjetguy 2 years ago
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video sucks!!! get a life...............
sorry but nobody says anything! it's BOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIING!
BADSmiijne4ever 2 years ago
I'm not sure I would not refer to Checkpoint Charlie as a 'colloquial name', as it is taken directly from the NATO phonetic alphabet / international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, the most widely used spelling alphabet in the world.
Checkpoint A ("Alpha") near Helmstedt, Checkpoint B ("Bravo") near Drewitz, and Checkpoint C ("Charlie") at Friedrichstrasse,
Nice footage.
hrfaca 2 years ago
Joe Shmo and your successful high end businessman can both be happy because they can choose what's right for themselves without any consent from high above..lol. In a communist or socialist like system, the government comes before the people not the other way around which is what causes Person A to get angry when he wants more than Person B.
trayceyv 2 years ago
in free market society you can sell off bonds to get capital moving again. Whereas in a socialistic like system the bonds don't meet the supply and demand because not enough money is made in a socialist or communist like system. Only so much money can come from taxes and other government charges. Like I said the system doesn't work the minute the guy next door wants more than what that system allows him to do. If the sky is the limit, there's no limit as to how much you can do.
trayceyv 2 years ago
but atleast we can start from scratch and rebuild. in a socialistic like system you don't have any capital to start things moving again, largely because you get taxed through the roof and what not. Besides socialism may work for some but not for others. The system is broken the minute someone wants more than what that system can give them. In a free market society both the guy that wants very little and the guy that wants a lot can get what they want. There's no ceiling. It's up to you.
trayceyv 2 years ago
aus welchem jahr ist das video?
jetska1810 3 years ago
April 1990. (04/90)
Simon
citytransportinfo 3 years ago
Right...socialism is heaven, that's why people lost their lives trying to escape from it. People like you show how history repeats itself, millions of people have died in vain.
bellaggio1770 3 years ago
it was not the socialism that wa sa problem. It was the the human politics which kept people in like prisoners.
I admit that I used to think that capitalism is better, but when I see the mess we are all in right now, with banks loosing £billions and how much it is all costing the taxpayers -so I wonder if there is not a need a for a third way which is neither capitalism nor socialism.
In 1989 we all thought that the 'west' had 'won'. In 2008 we too lost. Our economies are now bankrupt.
citytransportinfo 3 years ago
what is this fleamarket next to the wall??? disgusting!!
csume1 3 years ago
Why disgusting? Those are souvenir vendors selling communist and military bric-a-brac from East Germany and Russia. There were a lot of thise in 1990, some are still around. Isn't a touristy sight on the Berlin wall the perfect place for it?
anorak2 3 years ago 2
I love BERLIN!!!
georgeuk83 3 years ago 2
berlin city of turks and grafiti, souless glass buildings.
polskich 3 years ago
Name one city that is any better?. All cesspits are cesspits. Cities by their very nature are cesspits.
dawnrun911 3 years ago
A world without socialism is not a world.
rottenwordsworth 3 years ago
No, it is Heaven !
WOLFARG 3 years ago
Yeah, right. Capitalism or Islamism. Rich bastards or terrorists. A heaven indeed.
rottenwordsworth 3 years ago
Socialism has it's own terror as wel. But two wrongs don't make a right! Terror is due to people. Not to systems.
Skoda130 3 years ago 2
Skoda130 - I very much agree, its NOT the system. It is the people who make life hell for ordinary people.
Simon
citytransportinfo 3 years ago
if you go to CC you have to eat at the schlotzkeys there!! its wunderbar!!
GR4NDTH3FT4UTO 3 years ago 2
thought it was boring.
conorlewandowski 3 years ago
It takes one to know one.
citytransportinfo 3 years ago
Man that is just how I remember it when I served in Jan-Oct 1990! Thanks citytransportinfo
brings bad memories, hows the KuDam?
zzharrispgzz 3 years ago
:-)
Yes, I visited the KuDam. But, sorry, no video.
Simon
citytransportinfo 3 years ago
I visited the site of Checkpoint Charlie at the weekend. There's a comprehensive outdoor exhibition about it, stretching along the site of the wall. Well worth an afternoon's reading.
PhunkyNun 3 years ago 3