The Fall of the Berlin Wall - Rare and Unseen Footage (1989)
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2023
- On 9 November 1989, East German leaders announced a loosening of travel restrictions between East and West Germany following months of mass protests across the country. Communist Party spokesperson Günter Schabowski held a press conference to announce the new measures, in which he was asked by a journalist when the changes would take effect. Having missed part of the briefing earlier in the day, Schabowski replied: “Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis... ist das sofort... unverzüglich” ("As far as I know... effective immediately, without delay"). East and West Berliners erupted in jubilation, and spontaneous demonstrations and celebrations saw thousands mount the wall that had divided the city for decades. East Berliners began pouring into West Berlin while civilians set about destroying the wall. Mixing newly-resurfaced and previously unseen footage, this ITN Archive documentary tells the story of the first days of the fall of the Berlin Wall - known in Germany as der Mauerfall.
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I was in the British Army at the time in west Germany, it was all over the news and the feeling of optimism was sweeping through not only the German people but also all of the NATO forces stationed there. I’m so glad that I was in Germany when the wall fell, I doubt I will ever live through such an optimistic time again.
Pinochet was the pioneer in sweeping away communism.
Years later, all of Europe took his example.
Yes, that was the spirit. Wall down, Germany reunited, USSR ended, the Cold War over and the bad guys turning into good guys. It was a time of hope and optomism. Now reality and sobreity have set in, but the general direction is still good.
I was in Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie with the US Army. It was a night I will never forget. When it started we had no idea what was going on. You could see a mass of people forming on the other side of the bridge. I still have a piece of the Wall in a frame with a certificate signed by Helmut Kohl and Hans Modrow.
I was in Gabarone, Botswana, watching on CNN and South African TV, in English and Afrikaans. The general feeling was one of disbelief, that this was some type of large demonstration, and not something that would bring on a fundamental change in the post-WWII way of life. Wrong, really wrong. But nice.
An incredible piece of archive footage. Thank you for uploading this without voice over or ads.
Agreed. 👍🏻
The people of Britain already paid for it but itn is a commercial outfit and so i wouldve expected that they would have put ads on.
-21:33 Saul Goodman?
LMFAOO YES
He got his rights
Wtf😂
Okay, so he probably went to a hoover dealer in Berlin back in 1989, who took him to Albuquerque.
Oh Mr. Goodman!
I visited Berlin in December of 1990, and had full access to all locations. The wall was gone and I very quickly walked thru the Brandenburg Gate. It was a great experience!!!
wow
cool
I did the same thing in September, 1990, age 23. Today, at age 57, I can’t believe I went there by myself from Connecticut!
Thanks for sharing this great historic archiving material. I will never forget this night as a Berliner and be happy to remember on this moment and the great feelings , that we are united.
Are you sexist
Tragic day. Russians (communists) were too light for those that took away 27 miIion people.
Were you East or West Berlin?
@@daddybeagleaz907 west ofc
Never forget your histoy AUSCHWITZ
As a German this is an event every one of my relatives talks about with great awe and joy, but getting to see it from so many small clips and perspectives for myself makes me understand that awe and that happiness so much more
Great way to end an unforgettable decade.
Nach deem Untergang der DDR ist es noch interessanter dem Untergang ganz "Deutschlands" zuzusehen.
We are so lucky to have been there!
The Russians couldn’t and will never break the German spirit
@@yurinator6380 советский народ мог уничтожить всю Германию за то, что Гитлер сотворил с СССР и с другими странами. Но Сталин не стал так поступать…
а да? может вам еще и спасибо сказать, раб системы?@@pavelpolyakov1266
Thank you for uploading this, along with the explanations in between!
1:05 the joy in this guys face - just WOW !
The Stasi agents in the crowds were probably saying to themselves... This sure is going to be a lot of paperwork and perhaps I should be thinking about my next job.
Some of them got pretty good jobs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Just because they spoke Russian.
I saw an interview with the border guard who was the first to open the gates. Some other guard told him this was the end of the GDR.
They are probably now writing parking fines...
@@Eric.T.Cartman One politician, I think, ended up cleaning platforms for trains. I saw it on a documentary. He felt he had to do something as his career as a politician came to an end
@@TheFrewah At least he got an honest job then.
That moment when we heard and realized and saw this wall coming down .. That moment in history was a high point for the world.. for everyone who beleived that the future was going to be brighter and better.
We have gone through so much. As a teen when this was happning i was so happy but now looking back as an adult
as someone whom looks at all our events currently in the last 20 years, i think
Where did we go wrong. We should be better off today than we were.
Radical Islam is what happened. Constant streams of illegal immigrants and politicians who do nothing about it. Look at what Western Europe has become. White Europeans are strangers in their own countries.
Merci ITN pour ces archives !
Judging from appearance many East German border guards were undoubtedly born after the wall went up. I remember talking to a young East German who was just 19 the time the wall fell and he told me family holidays were always in Hungary where as teenagers they were known as the "poor" Germans. He'd always longed for a pair of Levi jeans.......something i'd taken for granted through my teenage years and could buy any time!
Poor Germans... LOL! There are stories of adventurous East Germans in the early days travelling by bus or train to France or Italy to just look around a bit and finding that they couldn't even afford to use the public toilets and the locals there being astounded that there was such a thing as poor Germans wearing tatty clothes.
Awesome footage, thanks!
You know you’re old when you have a clear memory of watching this on TV, as an adult!
Wich one side of them are real arian ?
Damn
@@alanmalan3819 stereotyped thinking
@@alanmalan3819 Some of them are real Christian heretics?
@@alanmalan3819What? Germany was separated between a side controlled by communists and a side that was controlled by the us. It was a product of the war.
It's hard to believe it was so recently
Not so recent that there is a whole new generation of people who has forgotten how bad socialism is.
After the antifascist wall fell down whole planet burst into War thanks to "Western" greediness ..nobody can forget how capitalisme destroys people....And de-nazistification still happens today -against NATO and Kiev nazis - thanks to mother Russia...@@holydiver73
The absolute very best footage without any comment just the atmosphere - this ist pure gold!
I was 9 years old watching this in the news with my parents. 🇪🇬
мне было чуть больше.
In the beginning, Wester Germans were very open and friendly to the East Germans...but in early 90's that began to cool off considerably...
True. Most hate us.
Well East Germany had a command economy for so long and was much poorer. It became clear that unification would be paid for by the people of west Germany. They poured in roughly 2 trillion euros. Even now there is a solidarity tax. Also many people in the east still support socialism. Even though it keeps failing they just never seem to learn.
Like refugees in 2015 ?!
@@PortMoody1 well, if that's true then it shows that nowadays economic and social politics, the so called "free life", suck so much, to the point that some people feel nostalgic about oppressing and inhuman regimes like communism
aber warum ?@@harcomou8395
A lot of footage here that I have never seen before and I have seen quite a bit. I was there when it all happened, stood on the wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, got drenched with that East German hosepipe, drank Champagne with the others, nearly fell off the wall, didn't sleep for 3 days, watched as that first wall section was pulled down by us before the West-Berlin police came and shooed everyone away, nearly fell of the wall once. What a few days that was!
I think everyone knew this was coming, it was in the air, was only a matter of time, all we had to do is wait for it to happen.
Thanks for posting, a lot of memories have come back again, a lot of questions too. Where are all these people now? What has become of them? Are they all still happy it happened?
did the east side guards take part in the "party", what did they talk to these west side people?
@@Supernova1.980 Nope, the East German border guards refused to even talk to us. It seemed to me, they felt it their duty to protect the border even as this was collapsing in front of their eyes and treated us like invaders.
@@mikethespike7579 thanks for sharing. I was 9 years old on those days, and even far away from Germany (Brazil) I could sense how festive, changing the world was. All the day the tv was broadcasting that. I can´t forget.
@@Supernova1.980 What! It was even being broadcast in Brazil? That amazes me! I knew at the time that it was historic and I was at the dead centre of it, but would never have guessed it to be of such interest.
Great video, thank you for uploading!
Thanks for uploading! These videos are monuments of history! Greetings from Italy!
Had a bit of a chuckle at around 2:50 . The man with the cast on his left leg with a walking stick smiled and waved at the camera , then hid his face . It was a great time in history seeing the wall come down
Amazing footages!
theres a reason why, when the wall fell, everyone ran from the east side to the west side......
Yes, its human instinct to flee Socialism /Communism
ITN should of put subtitles on ❤
it's hard to believe that the children in this video will be in their 30's and 40's now and will have children of their own.
Given the low birth rates in the Western world probably not.
Amazing archive footage
first time in Berlin after the fall of the Wall.. i was 8... and waving smiles to british Jeep which was following us on the Autobahn in West Berlin.. And they waved backed.. very nice!
my parents were there a few weeks before the fall and they could sense something big was gonna happen they just didnt know when but just the atmosphere in berlin was basically akin to being so much under pressure you could cut it with a knife and it would spew out
as soon as they got home they saw the news of the wall coming down
My late uncle was there to photograph the day all the way from Scotland 🏴
They may take our wall but they'll never take
OUR FREEDOM
Ossies. They were called Ossies, or Easterners. They were looked down on as backwards, and unsophisticated. It took YEARS for them to assimilate into the New Germany. They were extremely left wing, including a couple of million communists. Politics took a hard left turn in Germany, which quickly transitioned into a Socialist Democracy. This was terrific for the country. The additional arable land, resources, and basic work ethic of Germany terrified England and France, who knew that a Greater Germany would eventually dominate Europe. Again. Still.
I love how at 6:42 and 6:49 there are people slowly, carefully chipping away at the wall (one of them has a chisel!) and then at 6:59 the camera pans over to the guy who is just whacking the wall as hard as he can with a sledgehammer. Working toward the same goal, in very different ways!!
"All alone or in twos, the ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall"
And today, some of the the EU wants to build, yes, walls against, yes, refugees.
"Isn't this where we came in?" truly.
@@MaxScheibenpflug Do you mean the Finland-Russia border?
@@FinlandGuy747 there are many EU borders where walls are discussed.
@@MaxScheibenpflug Right now Russia is forcing refugees who, don't have all the needed papers, to EU, so we have to close our borders.
@@FinlandGuy747 because papers and stuff are more important than human life.
I am from Austria. During the Nazi regime, many Austrians died because no country would take those people as refugees.
Today? Still the same everywhere, still the same... and Austria is only one of many countries that does not want to take refugees, having learned nothing from being on the other side 80 years ago.
If anyone wonders what they are screaming at the start of the vid its "wall be gone" its a rough translation but its the best way to say it in english.
A huge early Christmas gift to those against what remained of the Eastern Block.
Too bad it's now Christians who are jumpstarting fascism right here in the USA. We learned nothing
My father has a piece of the broken wall
I remember the recording of that crossing which had to open because of the pressure. There was this guard whose head went from left to right like crazy, as if he tried to memorise the face of each individual. Unforgettable. It would be interesting to see an interview with this guy
I will never forget this i was 7 years old and was living there. The people all over the place hanging out of their cars screaming and happy also crying something even as a child you knew was a very big thing happening
Thanks MR GORBATJOV, YOU made this possible!
Je pense que c'est le meilleur que la Russie à eu. Avec lui, jamais il aurait eu la guerre en Ukraine. La Russie serait bien différente, aimée et respectée du monde.
Обычные люди Горбачёва ненавидят! То что происходило в 90е и сейчас, результат его "политики"! Гори в аду "меченый"!
@@user-nc2ot8uf2gздравые люди не винят Горбачёва, а винят народ, который и развалил страну
@@Dane_Au да-да! Давно с народом тот общался или из-за бугра очередной вещатель?
@@user-nc2ot8uf2g как я написал выше, вина в основном лежит на народе, причём некоторые из них говорят, как жилось лучше раньше, гении
Still brings me to tears.
Take me to the magic of the moment on the glory night
And now a mediocre former KGB officer who was in East Germany at that time would like to take it back.
Can someone translate what the man said at 5:46 please?
we came from the wall
4:01 the guy on the right is like "oh crap I'm out of a job".
Still have my original pieces of the wall
I remember watching this live on TV..
Wow they way the East Berlin guards block the walk entryway. 35:59
that blonde guard was all but laughing
Um grande fato histórico pra Alemanha Berlin eo mundo
Isso deveu ser a festa e uma bagunça eita! Graça a Deus aquele muro caiu não cansei visionar nessas imagens.
E o Clímax o ano seguinte as duas Alemanhas reunificaçarem no dia 3 de outubro de 1990
Ex a Alemanha ocidental engolisse a Alemanha oriental.
A catastrophy for most living in the Union. Hard times.
Zgadza się , początek upadku cywilizacji europejskiej
.... and al these decades later, genuine original pieces of the Berlin Wall are still on sale in Berlin souvenir shops.....
I have one piece in my bookcase, brought by my brother who was visiting Berlin...
a fool and his money are soon parted... @@alejandrovidal6441
I wasn’t even born until 1992, but when I was growing up, my (American) parents had chunks of concrete in a heap in the backyard that we all called “the Berlin Wall.” One day I asked why, and they told me that when they bought the house in 1989, there was a concrete path through the backyard that they wanted to remove. So the next summer, when they were breaking it into pieces with sledgehammers, they started calling it “the Berlin Wall.”
It looks like the East Berlin guards don't want the wall to come down. They hoist it up. 38:48
they could suffer severe penalties from their superiors if they didn´t. I think, in their inner heart, they did want the wall to come down.
@@Supernova1.980 That's true. Cognitive dissonance.
I was just following orders
The wall was a crime against humanity
This is used to stop the expansion Of The American power to the east
You has conflict with Russia now because America follow Hitler example n expand its power to the east
communism and state socialism are crimes against humanity
Oh wow I was only a newborn when this happened! Very fascinating
I was 11 years old at the time living in NJ. My mom is from duisburg and she got a call from friends about what happened. the news ran the whole day and night
I don't understand Getman and what the peoplenare chanting. I never saw this footage but wow. It looks like a west and east betliner are wrestling each other over getting to the other side. 34:40
imagine the wall fell down on somebody
*I can barely remember the event, momentous as it was. It did not register as that big of a news item in Phoenix, Arizona where I was living at the time.*
I was 14 years old in 1989 I remember everything
Can you tell everything in great detail?
my granpa was 14 years old when germans killed his parents in Smolensk 1941
In 1989 was ik in canada verweg van Europa wij wilden nog na oostberlijn beetje verweg van uit canada eindelijk is het toch nog open voor iedereen en toen de oorlog in yugoslavieen ook zo erg voor iedereen
Note that Graffiti on the wall at 13:37: “ ⚡️A, ⚡️⚡️, ⚡️ED”, clever taunt at the ruling party of East Germany.
NEVER AGAIN!
What did the man say to the camera? 3:28
please stay back
@@reinerbergkamen7852 ah thank you
I was in my teen watching this on TV and i was memorize.
Великие времена. Падение железного занавеса. Тогда СССР почувствовал ветер перемен и вскоре рухнул.
Ветер перемен ж..пу защекотал
3:53 4:20 That fierce whistling crowd… It taunts the soldiers
i remembered when i was visit that wall, was impressed when i touched wall and i kneel my leg and Prayed Hope This future will be taken down i was shocked it was 1987 i was visited Germany, it was so Blessing! Thanks God For Answer my Prayers!
The guy at 2:52 with stick at first waves but then covers his face.
One of my earliest memories as a kid it felt like the world would change for the better.
And indeed he has changed😂
Amazing times
this moment changed the whole world
Greetings from Poland. Freedom always win.
ГДР незаконно распался
На кухню топай. И идеалистический конструкт вроде "свободы" с собой забери, марионетка собственной тупизны.
@@ZOV_ebat_azov327что значит "незаконно") СССР получается законным образом развалился? Че вообще за термины?)
@@Vocadus тоже незаконно к сожалению
@@ZOV_ebat_azov327 раскройте свой термин "незаконно развалился", пожалуйста.
The crowds climbing on top of the wall I’m guessing these are people from the west German side? With all the graffiti on the walls the East German side was white… so to me the crowds we see is mostly west German ? Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong 😂
You‘re completely right
The area of no mans land was on the East side. You could get shot and many did for trying to get near the wall. On the West side you could walk up to the wall.
Let‘s better call it no go zone or death strip, as there was no „no mans land“. The complete wall and barriere system was on GDR-territory. There were even some access doors in the wall for GDR soldiers to check the west side of the wall for damage. Even the west side was GDR property, but accessible for western people to spray their graffitis.
Rendu à cet étape. Je pense que c'était de l'Est et de l'Ouest.
Ich war live dabei am Brandenburger Tor beim Mauerfall 🤗❤️
Ты плакал?
the guy who just blew fire: 👁️👄👁️
Interesting the DDR Goons still trying to hold onto what little power they had left. In 12 months most would be unemployed 😕
хах бандиты, смешно
They had unreal amounts of power at one time, thanks to ulbricht et al
бандиты из ФРГ разграбили ГДР, и втоптали в грязь.
But they got retirement credit for their work io East Germany.
I was in middle school when this happened. We watched this "live" from our TV cart, and then drew maps and talked history.
Egon, Egon, who asked us for our opinion?
And what about Fon del layen?
and what about Pepe Rishi?
I never saw this new clip but it was the West Berliner who took down the Berlin Wall in the first place such madness of the people very excited in East and West . I did have a East German pen pal called Silke K from East Berlin for 2/3 years she writes in good English but l don’t know German and l was going to meet her but when the Berlin Wall fell she went to America as a Au Pair l think for a year then came back married to a Syrian but later divorced and married to a American and now lives in America it’s a shame that l never got to meet her that l wanted. Any ex East German would like to write to me no more than 40 years old.
What are they yelling @ 39:00?
It sounds like ”Mauer weg” (Tear down the wall).
@@Wigant-wc7to - Thank you…
i remember west Berlin, i was a teenager :)
the unification strasser didnt want
That evil wall came crumbling down.
Not unseen now.
So why were so older trying to pull the wall back in place. Was it for now until they get the go ahead to tear it down
Very intense. Never forget. And now we have a new form of Soviet Block called Russia.
It Fell because they wanted peace again and be full Germany again.
5:21 Are those west berliners climbing over the wall into eastern germany? I'm not quite educated on how the fall of the wall went down, so it seems interesting to me, that the border guards would let them.
Incredible footage. Today's generation will not understand until they see this footage, and they consider it a highly educational aspect.
Washington post friday november 10, 1989 -- 'that was old school'
Germany opened before covering 1989 until the collapse of the Soviet Union 1991
If you remember those days, start thinking in a pansion plan 😢
19:39 o mundo do consumo dando uma olhada no mostruário.
Frohes neues
6:59. Nick Cummins A.K.A. The Honey Badger was even at this event!
docs soon to be questioned by harvard.
😂😂😂😂😂
вот дали им свободу... а там даже на видео свастика на стене... ф.ты одним словом
I was a Junior in high school when this happened. And 2 years later the USSR was gone!
saw all this footage on U.S. tv as it was happening
And now?
34:06 never before both the East and West Berlin Police had a more difficult job to do 😂
I've wondered how many of the E. German police were absorbed into the Western ranks, both in Berlin and the rest of the country.