Berlin 1969 - Part 2a

Checkpoint Charlie and the most urban portions of the Berlin Wall. Produced in honor of reactivation of the 287th MP Company, US Army. This is the unit that provided the American staff at Charlie.

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[BFCer1]

Passt auf die Faschisten auf ??? Was für ein Lied ,leben/lebten doch nicht in Italien !?!?

Ansonsten schöne Bilder !

[rwrynerson]

@BFCer1 Moeglich sie koennen besser erklaren! Was ist Faschisten?

[rwrynerson]

@BFCer1 Moeglich sie koennen besser erklaren!  Was ist Faschisten? For those who don't know the lyrics, the opening song is that of the GDR border troops.

[princeeugen]

@rwrynerson Faschisten = fascists. I guess the poster was baffled to hear the song because he didn't know that it was the DDR-Grenztruppen song.

[nightfrog65]

Cool video. This was before my time, but Berlin seems like a lucky military assignment to have back in the late 1960's.

You could have been sent to Da Nang during the Tet offensive or patrol the Korean DMZ with an M-16 and a rucksack.

[Grazier3]

I was stationed in Berlin in 67-68, C-3-6, at McNair Barracks. I just came home from a visit and, oh, how Berlin has changed with the wall now gone. But there were still remains of memories of 42 years ago. Thank you for this additional memory.

[granskare]

I made a vid of my visit to the Soviet War Memorial in 1960...I only had 2-3 days and back to Sembach .