Berlin 1990 - the end of the wall Pt 3

Berlin, July 1990. I'd watched the fall of the wall on TV news the previous December and having visited the city several times in the 1980's I was eager to see what had happened. As it turned out they had finally given up any idea of keeping a divided city shortly before I went over.

Pink Floyd did their "Wall" concert which gave me the second reason for going. This was performed on the old Potsdamer Platz, at the time an area of dead sand within the two walls that made up the "anti fascist protection barrier". Within this death strip was a mound which was the remains of Hitler's bunker. This was removed pretty quickly after the wall fell and is now the site of the holocaust monument.

This is some "home movies" I made at the time with a borrowed VHS camera. It's mostly of the wall and East Berlin.

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Travel & Events

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• Berlin
• wall
• DDR
• gernany

[charlieiscool1000]

did u ever see the remains of Hitler bunker?

[NR23derek]

@charlieiscool1000

Yeah - see part 1 at 4mins 47 - I stand on it!

[loodjuret]

Were there any landmines left between the wall sections in 1990? Can see some children playing there.. ;)

Great video btw!

[yzyrider]

excellent.a precious piece of history! ;)