DDR border at Marienborn - Die Grenze von der DDR an Marienborn

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DDR border at Marienborn - Die Grenze von der DDR an Marienborn - Восточногерманская граница на западе

The inter German border control post at Helmstedt - Marienborn was the largest border point within the entire Soviet empire.
The point controlled the motorway leading to Berlin and beyond from West Germany.
Whereas there were few problems for people getting in if they were going to Berlin, it was a different story for those going to any other destination.
And of course it was designed to stop people getting out.
Most of the frontier fence is no longer there and in places it is no longer obvious where it was. However many remains are still evident and in some places have been preserved. In other places they are still standing, but abandoned and the broken glass and chipped paintwork demonstrates their fate.
There is an excellent museum at the former Helsmstedt - Marienborn border crossing which does not take much of a detour for those travelling along this road.
This film also shows photographs of Hötensleben, 12km south of Marienborn where the wall has been preserved. Here the wall was breached on 23 November 1989 and traffic allowed to run both ways for the first time in many years. However the locals preserved the wall in many places.
I crossed the border point at Marienborn several times from 1982 - 1987 both by train and by car. It was extremely interesting to see it from the other side.
I have now posted a three part film of the border control post at Marienborn which may also be of interest.
Some other information as well as my blog about this and other visits can be found on www.pbn.com.pl

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[MarcB09121992]

3:19 The border at Hoetensleben ;)

[alanheath]

@MarcB09121992 I filmed that as well - you can see three films of mine from Hoetensleben!

[galanter]

Ausgezeichneter Film! Vielen Dank!

[alanheath]

@galanter Vielen Dank. Ich freue mich sehr!

[slawek57]

Thank you for this nice video and for the explanations

[alanheath]

@slawek57 I am glad you appreciated it. I have more here on the inter German border which may interest you!

[choirboyfromhell1]

Then again, has anybody dwelt with the U.S. Customs and Immigration Homeland Security types lately?

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it......

[SabuPtolemy]

That place was bat shit crazy!

We have come along way, baby - here's to freedom for all that seek it!

[mutterschied]

I was there in 1990, and it kept all of an unexplainable... scent of fear, pain and cry.

Don't ask me why, bu those damnedest walls DID talk.

Omg! Socialismus = Paradise?

[mark1simon]

Just like getting into the USA fucking mad in 2011

[MIXFM1026]

Wow, great piece of work. I've been to the DDR in '87, and I still feel the unnatural atmosphere while we visited and East-Berlin museum and the Schloss Sans Souci. The moment that our Eastern Berlin guide had to step of the bus is still tatooed in my memories.

Now, I'm flying and driving often to Berlin, and a few weeks ago, I stopped in Marienborn to have a look at the crossing. Again, I felt the strange atmosphere I experienced in '87.

[LibertaerUeberAlles]

@galanter

One might say that Nordic Socialism was possible only because of Soviet Socialism -- due to the gravitational pull, so to speak. Do you know about the Marxist genocides of ethnic Christians in Russia and Ukraine? Lazar Kaganovich? The Holodomor?

You can watch:

"kaganovich bolshevism"

or:

"Cheka and NKVD Marxist Holocaust"

This is what Germany fought against.

[galanter]

@LibertaerUeberAlles

There is a gargantuan difference between 'Sozialismus' as to what was in the ehemaliger-DDR and 'social democracy' governments. Not the same thing. Unfair analogy. A better analogy would be to Scandinavia.

The type of former Communist Bloc- Iron Curtain Sozialismus was a giant prison. Anytime you have soldiers of a government shooting their own people who want to leave their country, that is something never to be compared with "Democratic style social programs".Come now!