Berlin, Germany: The Wall and Checkpoint Charlie - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite
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![BERLIN, GERMANY 🇩🇪 [4K] Checkpoint Charlie](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/er7C6LuVAf0/mqdefault.jpg)
I arrieved in Berlin 7 August 1961, five days before the border was closed. I was with the American Army helicopter unit at Tempelhof. Stationed there for 2 years. Married a German girl from west Berlin. Marriaged lasted 51 years, until God took her home. Good video
It was so hard living under that regime, thank God, I came to Australia, just before this horrible wall was built, in 1961.
Did you go straight to Australia, choosing it as your ultimate destination or did you just "end up" over there?
Almost seems as if you wanted to get as far away from the tyranny as possible.
Margaret Bubenik thanks got that I live in Canada since 1978
and today we get with Merkel the Communists again.
Grüße aus Deutschland! (Greetings from Germany!)
I could just imagine how miserable you would be if you stayed in East Berlin. Luckily you and I get to enjoy the tyrant free Germany. Once the virus ends I'm coming back
Back then: LETS BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THE PEOPLE IN.
Now: LETS BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THE PEOPLE OUT.
Two different reasons for the walls, one cogent the other not.
Building a wall to keep out drugs, potential religious radicals and criminals is cogent.
@@omoeromosele2400 he won't understand.
@@BadDictator Yes, he’s a brain dead leftist!
My mom went to Checkpoint Charlie with me (only a year old in 1986) and my dad. Twenty years later she went back and was so humbled my dad actually talked to me about it. Freedom will always follow those who believe in it.
I was just there in January, Berlin is a very fun city rich in history
Tim Young I was just there two days ago. So much history there!! Great city and German people are so much fun.
@@poorweakcua6372 Do they speak English
@@jediskunk67 In Berlin yes
I was stationed there with the US Army from 1987 - 1992. It was a very interesting place to be. The duty was great!!!
germany was united after the end of cold war, now we just need to wait to see north & south korea to be united.
No.
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Now we see the unchecked progress of Authoritarianism all over the world, mostly in the West. There is nowhere to escape to now. 😔 😟 🙁 😥 😞
Now time for Koreans to unite again
Forget it.
North Korea is NOT going to Unite with South Korea if China and the USA have anything to say about it!
Not gonna happen.
I spent a couple of weeks in GDR in 1987..and i can remember that some strange feeling of rebel was in the air... It all ended two years later.. But this is another story... Very interesting video... It seems so different now...
Would korea soon has this beautiful story ?
Koreans will have their 1989. Kim knows this and he is very afraid.
Hopefully very soon.
Hope it happens quickly. Kim should be tried at an international court for crimes against humanity.
@@edwardbranca54 the regime will go out firing off their nukes
I HOPE KOREA WILL HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL STORY VERY SOON!
I'm going to Berlin this summer! I probably watch your full 25 minute video on Berlin at least once a day. I MAY be slightly overexcited... :-)
We are going in August, looking forward to it.
Wow... How has it changed.. I was in 87 inEast Berlin... Now it seems so different... Nice video..
1970 : You shall no pass!
2019 : Ah im going through
The wall wasn’t in 1970 tho
@@marcas8269 It was built in 1961
1989!
@@desa415 I know,just make it more specific
The armoured car was never fired on, those bullet holes were after. Its even says it on the description in the museum.....
Now we have an invisible wall around nations called European Union.
True.
How many people in that area made a fortune selling chunks of the wall? It seems to me soon after that happened, every desk has a concrete chunk souvenir from the wall on it. Somebody made a fortune shipping concrete chunks.
I got a little piece of the wall as a souvenir as a bday gift as a teenager...ha...still have it to this day 👍🤷♂️
Did you know if you put all those pieces together, they would go 3x around the earth?
It brought me to tears. When East Germans were given the right to freedom, in 1989.
There are many younger people in the Western Hemisphere that can’t believe that this wall actually existed.
Why people cross Berlin wall to get to west Germany instead of going from other parts of country
Berlin was entirely located within East Germany, but had «western» sectors. Think of it as an embassy, which is considered US (or Canadian or German or French) soil, even though it is in another country.
Enjoyed the video. I visited East Berlin in the eighties and remember being checked at "Check-point Charlie".
Checkpoint charlie almost become a bar brawl, tank vs tank duel, T54/55 vs Patton tank
East Germany wasn’t communist, it was socialist.
Population development was one of the problem. Women need more attention and freedom.
Between the two ruler dictators of hitler and Stalin..I would say Stalin could be the worst dictators of all than hitler..due to him sending many innocent civilian to gulag
They were all controlled by the elite just like today
What does that have to do with this video?
But too bad Reagan didn't actually make that speach at the Berlin Wall. He made that speach at the Vandinburg Gate.
Brandenburg Gate
The wall used to run right in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
The Regan Statue in US Congress have Berlin Wall Remains Embedded in its Base
Ah the place where Valentina sends her disciples
I understood that reference!
It was exactly 30 years ago on November 9th, 1989.
My favorite souvenir from my recent visit to Berlin is a fridge magnet, "The World is Too Small For Walls"
That's cute.
Regan was a Floyd fan
0:29 , that was unexpected and shocking ...
How so?
2:31 ! no build the wall!
It’s funny how it still there but just remains
German people are one of the smartest minds in the world.
1:44 why there in Museum Checkpoint Charlie photo from Prague August 1968 ? This man stand behind Warsav pact tank (probably Soviet tank)
This was off the Hook to view because I always wonder what happen to the original wall and if they broke all of it down or kept it in storage or have it in a memorial museum that exhibit that cold war era etc... I see my third option was correct and when I traveled to Berlin seriously, I would like to visit that museum and take photos etc. Great video and tour for us UA-cam viewers to watch, thanks- thumbs up for the footages.
At the beginning is Bernauer Strasse. There are still some church bells left over, partly as a memorial to the church that the East German government demolished.
I crossed there in 1980.
The WALL OF SHAME!!!!!
QUE MIEDO LE TIENEN A LOS ALEMANES porque sera
Mr.Coop in the house! love this video!
i was there in 1989 viseting gesila and veronica
Makes no pretence to be anything other than a western viewpoint of the situation, but more reasonable than some on the internet. Completely omits the reasons for the sectors and division of Berlin after 1945.
It's a 2:56-long video dude...
It's such a short way to go, any small plane or hot air balloon at night would have made it easily
How should you get a plane?
People have sewn their very own balloons once or twice. As mentioned, you couldn't just straight up buy an aerial vehicle for a myriad of reasons. All that's left is building your own but good luck keeping that under the blanket under an authoritarian regime with one of the most intricate surveillance apparati known to man.
I don't know how accurate this is but I once heard that it's been estimated that about 5% of the populace were "unofficial employees" of the Ministry of State Security ("Stasi") with many more being unrecorded. Everyone was a potential spy out to gain favors in the system by ratting out their neighbors, co-workers, sometimes even family members and friends. That's why most people who thought about fleeing the country were either caught by the system before even attempting their escape or never planned anything in the first place in fear of being discovered and persecuted. That means being left to die in the darkest cell under heavy torture or straight up being sent to Siberia.
If you owned a plane in the East before the socialists tightened their grip, you were either part of the regime or they confiscated it. Simple as that.
I don't know where you're from but thankfully, this is being taught to us in school. We're aware of the cruelties of authoritarianism, having seen both sides of the same coin: fascism and socialism. Otherwise most of us would probably be just as unaware as you are since apparently, a few decades is enough to forget the cruelties of the past.
Based there with the British army 88 90. I was lucky enough too be there when the wall came down... It wasn't until years later I found out that David Bowie Heroes was written about those who made that mad dash for freedom and never mad it too the west... Berlin is the best city too every grace this planet...
I have heard the British sector was the most rural?
Das not good
Shameful times for europe
Communism?
Yeah i know...
My first thought was about this wall, when Pres. Trump suggested building a wall between the USA and Mexico. It's shame that it will be a massive waste of money, and a futile concept.
Two completely different things. Get a grip.
@@mchlbk Agreed, every country has borders that have varying levels of security, ranging from tight control (ie, Russia or between the Koreas) to nearly non-existent (ie, internal Schengen borders in Europe) intended to keep unwanted people out while allowing good people in at authorized entry ports.
The Berlin Wall/Berliner Mauer was the direct opposite, being built solely to keep their own people in, like with a maximum-security prison.
Seems heaven on Earth.
.......and we built one between Mexico and USA. Yes, I know “they are bad” and we are “good”.🤪
ja das ist
For Your and Our FREEDOM! ДОЛОЙ БАНДУ ПУТИНА! СЛАВА УКРАИНЕ! ЗА НАШУ И ВАШУ СВОБОДУ! FOR YOUR AND OUR LIBERTY!
Location?
berlin
I was in there in 2012 !!
Is the wall left
Only small parts remain in Berlin. The people of Berlin wanted the wall removed.
@@edwardbranca54 why, its a reminder of Germany's dark past
I remember the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was exciting to watch.
What makes you think communism has collapsed in the east?
@@boomerangkal What makes you think it hasn't?
I went in 1989 and I've lived the last days fallen wall!
это не народная сила разрушила стену а тупизм и слабоумие горбачева плоды пожинаем до сих пор!!!
My name is Berlin and I was born next to it
No it's Christina