Tour of East and West Berlin in 1966, including Berlin Wall
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Tour of East and West Berlin in 1966. Taken by my father with a super 8 camera. Includes Berlin Wall. Note how prosperous West Berlin is while there are few cars on the street in East Berlin. I know it's long and a little tedious in places (Dad love to film landscapes), but please stick with it; you won't see some scenes anywhere else.
Fascinating. I hitch-hiked to Berlin in 1966, crossing East German to go into West Berlin. I went to visit Gitti Scholz, whom I'd met in London when she was visiting during the summer. I crossed into East Berlin most days, sometimes through Checkpoint Charlie, sometimes by taking the S-bahn to Friedrichstrasse station. I drank in the bar along from the station and met some interesting people there. Modern Berlin has lost its atmosphere completely.
Ich habe in 1966 in Berlin gelebt , so viele gute Erinnerungen . Danke fuer die Tour in die Vergangenheit !
What a treasure. I'm so happy to have found this snippet of filmed history and it's so well done. Thank you for sharing!!
It is amazing how they rebuilt this city.in 15 years. My deepest admiration!
in 21 years ! 1945 - 1966
This is HISTORY. Pure and simple. I have always wondered how life used to be those days, and this video put some light into it. Thanks for sharing this!
The landscapes/daily life is my favorite part. Kudos to your dad for his excellent filming.The Music is wonderful too.
Hi Thomas...excellent video. I was stationed in West Berlin from 1969 to 1971 in the US Army (287th MP Company). We worked the checkpoints and patrolled "the wall". This brought back so many great memories. I believe the "grass mound" at about the 6:47 mark was where Hitler's Bunker was located in East Berlin near Potsdamer Platz. The whole video is great footage. thank you for posting!
This is a treasure! Thank you so much for uploading this and thank you to your father for making this video!
I too came back from Berlin at the beginning of September and, needless to say, it looks and feels completely different. The first time I was in Berlin I was a wee toddler in 1986 with my parents. In describing today's Berlin, my mother kept saying how she could not imagine a unified Berlin, since both were so different (we visited both sides). I wanted to see what she was talking of and here's a marvelous example. Thank you so much !
thank you,i was born in england but stayed in berlin as a child with my cousins brought back great memories,also thanks to your fathers good camera ability a personnel masterpiece thanks again great movie
This is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing this piece of history with the world!
i was there in 1960 to 61.and remember a lot of this tour.wow it sure brings back memories.I see the soldiers stand in groups and wonder if I was one of them. thanks for showing this film.it means a lot to me
This is a truly fascinating and special piece of film. What an amazing find. Well done to your father who was clearly a fine cameraman and knew a good deal about editing too. Judging by the movie showing at the cinema in the Ku'damm, this must have been shot in the early autumn of 1966 (as "Khartoum" was released in September '66 in Germany). Thanks SO much for sharing this wonderful piece of history.
I’m sure I’ve seen footage at 8:53 of the changing of the guard but with SS soldiers during the war, with the exact same movements. The synchronisation of their movements is incredible.
You can be sure of that..it was the monument for german heroes.. Heldengedenkstätte.. SS Gards and exactly the same action.
Greetings from Wedding in Berlin ✌️
Not only that. The eastern Volksarmee had very simmilar uniforms to those of Wehrmacht.
Prussian tradition that the DDR allowed to live on in the NVA.
I was there in '66. Thanks for posting. Brings back good as well as scary memories. I'll never forget the East German guards - there was nothing behind their eyes. They terrified me.
Rather a silly comment. Most of the border guards were just young guys doing their compulsory military service - it wasn't a choice and most would rather not have been there.
you'd probably get bored too if you had to stand and walk in the same area doing nothing for hours
Thank you, fantastic footage!
Thank you for posting this! I recently returned from Berlin, so this was so interesting. The music is great also.
I recall Berlin as cold and grey. My oma lived about a mile from templehof airport. The bombed out church was about two miles away from her place. Flying into Berlin and still seeing many bombed out buildings. Good video.
Was stationed there 67 thru 69. The Soviet War Memorial was inside West Berlin just down from the Brandenburg Gate. I did not realize the ceremonial Soviet Troops carried AKs in our zone
superb document!
Sad to me that Berlin had some of the most beautiful architecture in Europe before the war and this film shows a post war Berlin that is stark and cold. Thankful for the film to see a glimpse of life at that time for Berliners. God only knows what those people endured in the last days of the war. It is amazing anyone survived.
Thank you for sharing,
I grew up during this period. Joy at seeing demolishing Wall !
In 1966 i was in the US Army stationed in Augsberg,it was a intresting tour.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for this !
Superbe retour en arrière.....
I was stationed at Andrews Barracks then. Great memories.
Thank you for sharing!!
Great vídeo. Congrats from Argentina
Im born in 1950 in Berlin so I really enjoyed the trip in memory lane it's great that there are some privat footage exist to have a camera in the 60s were very rare
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Fantastic footage: thank you for uploading.
Thomas
Many thanks for sharing this lovely well-shot film -it's certainly not tedious and it brings us many very interesting images of Berlin at this time. God bless your father and kind regards to your good self.
Tom Duggan
I was looking for Trabant cars in E Berlin, but cars were similar to W Berlin, just not as many. I had to watch the film twice as I missed the change from east to west. Amazing film! While I've never visited Berlin, I visited Leipzig, Dresden, and Weimar in early 1989 (all in DDR), just weeks before demonstration started in Leipzig. Everything looked beautiful with the exception of cars in the streets as were all that small, compact Trabant. Thank you and your father for the beautiful film.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I lived in Berlin in 1966. I was there as a 19 year old Mormon Missionary. Many of the images shown in the film I can clearly remember. It was a unique city. Almost weekly we would wake up to machine gun fire as people tried to escape from the east to the west. This video brought back many memories. thank you
Thank you so much for sharing this footage. I am trying to write some things about the world post WW2 and this is a historical document. Thank you, from California.
Phantastisches Zeitdokument!
Fascinating!
I really enjoyed this! Your Dad was a good videographer.
Thanks to you and your Dad, I get chewed on for not filming people but building and landscapes. There is just something boring about shooting people standing stiffly in front of an important scene that diminishes the shot
Great stuff...thanks for sharing.
Very cool. But at 12:36 it says I punkt Berlin. It just made me smile 🙂🙂
i think its sad and interesting to watch those east german soldiers...its pretty certain that a good number of their fathers would have died in the war, their country (prussia) was pretty much completely destroyed by the soviets...and yet they march..
I was in East and West Berlin in September 1966. How strange to see it again. I wonder what happened to the people I knew there? Gitti? Heidi? Axel? Are you still around?
While West Berlin was totally rebuilt 21 years after the end of WW2, East Berlin still showed traces of the destruction of war.
Fascinating. Ku’damm was practically rebuilt by then!
Thanks for sharing! I came to Berlin in 1966 to stay here since then. Last take-off in the film was Schönefeld SXF I assume?
thanks - this is very nice of you to post -
Lived there from 1964 until 1967
Thank you for making this available. A bygone era we should not forget.
When you look at the recent election results in Germany it seems like the new snowflake generation has indeed not learned anything from the past
Was there 3 years,left in june 1966 us army sad place.
east Berlin also looks nice
Dear Mr Byrne,
May I use some seconds of the fantastic footage that was captured by your father in a non-commercial documentary project? It features an artist who was thinking about the time he came to Berlin. I will of course credit you and your father as the source of this great piece of history. Please let me know
cheers,
Mark
amazing
went to East Germany in 1975, Gorlitz, Jena, Magdeburg, Saxon Switzerland beautiful place, Dresden was being rebuilt as it was, Leipzig, and East Berlin , the other mentioned cities were very nice but I`ll admit East Berlin was a bit depressing
That maybe was because the other cities had a more elaborate industry-sector. East Berlin did have some industry, but it didn't really compete with other East-German cities. I think East-Germany bothered less in investing in East-Berlin because of that, after all you ofcourse want to built a workers-paradise for the people actually able to fill the quotas.
Wish I had been there with ten rolls of Kodachrome film.
Hi Thomas, Great footage. I'd like to talk to you about sourcing and clearing the use of this material in a project I am working on. Thanks
good job
It was a joy! So polar compared to 1945. I am so gratified to see Europe having her growth pains again. The coalitions and friendships forged during this time of economic opportunity will be some of the grreatest alliances ever forged through dlversity. Good thing to come because cool heads will prevail; that is a certainty! We know more and we know better now.
Damn I wonder how it felt to live in the east side and west
Excellent video, historical. I wonder what is the name of the musician and the soundtrack for this video. Thank you.
History caught on film.
brilliant. I see places i recognise from my Time in West Berlin
was it possible to come close to Brandenburg gates from British sector?
Victor K during the time of divide you couldnt get too close. likewise with the memorial 2 the fallen soviet soldiers during battle 4 berlin. That Particular monument was guarded by Soviets
Victor K when i think back im almost sure the gate was within tge Soviet Sector
thanks for reply. What has happened to Berlin during that time is probably most fascinating part of the history
Victor K i felt it was a privilege 2 have been there & a part of it. Your most welvome Victor. Any time
I'm OK with this. Feel free to give me and my father (Robert M. Byrne) credit.
Oso, oso interesgarriak irudiak, eskerrik asko.
Is that Milton Friedman at 3:35?
Sopranos theme music should be being played.
Hello Jovem Nerd?
Which part of the video he arrived in the west?
It is 1966 in 2020.
Beautiful but conclusions can not be from 1960. Berlin Wall was built in 1961
was east germany ok? beside the stasis and conformity?
Dankeschön super Video
Is this for real? 😱
Penta Holic and
What a treasure. I'm so happy to have found this snippet of filmed history and it's so well done. Thank you for sharing!!
What a treasure. I'm so happy to have found this snippet of filmed history and it's so well done. Thank you for sharing!!