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You probably mean the Neue Wache. There was an eternal flame there until 1993, when it was abolished. Since then the Neue Wache is the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny.
I've watched a number of these videos about Berlin memorials. None of them mentioned the stunning diorama on the street outside the Friedrichstrasse train station. The text below in "quotes" is from one of the web sites with photos. "Frank Meisler's sculpture intitled "Trains to Life, Trains to Death" outside Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station December 8, 2008. The sculpture, inaugurated on November 30, 2008, commemorates the evacuation to England by train of some 10.000 Jewish children in 1938, but also the millions who stayed and and died in concentration camps." Memory is so unreliable. Last August (2023) I stayed most of a week in a hotel just a few feet away. I saw this memorial multiple times a day as I passed in and out of the train station. My recollection was that there was an open suitcase at her feet or immediately next to her with the remnants of its tossed contents. But looking at all the photos online, that not what they show. I guess my emotions added that. Regardless, if you are ever at this train station, stop for a moment and contemplate the horror of what is represented. It must not happen again.
I have seen on German television that it seem that the Berlin memorial to the murdered six million Jewish men women and children has become a great spot for young German to have fun selfies and even have sex. The way the memorial was built makes it easy for young people to go deep into the blocks so as not to be heard or found. I’m wondering if the young people of Berlin will be having Disco rave parties there one day.
It is a shame that you include one of the Bulgarian Micky Mouse tourist scammers, usually found near Brandenburg Gate, in the intro of your sincere and important video. They force tourists to accept flowers pretending to gift them, but then always demand money and often refuse to take the flower back. The women inside the Micky Mouse costumes themselves are often beaten up and threatened by their masters, a couple of lads running this scheme.
This is why Germany is always now so concentrated on human equality, and making sure what happened in the past does not ever happen again, not only in Germany , but also elsewhere.
Why, I wonder, the Holocaust is so accentuated when we talk about WW2, having so many other atrocities, that were perpetuated around the world, for instance, the two cataclysmic atomic bombs, that the US experimented on the poor Japanese, who had nothing to do with war.
Germany may be lovely today but the millions murdered, humiliated & starved ( all the camps) & tortured & regularly abused will always be their historic shame. No other country perpetrated anything so evil on such a scale ever!
I was in Berlin last May and it an amazing city, with so much history in the last 100 years. Because of WW2 and the Cold War it feels like a crossroads of many things that have shaped the city. We visited a lot of the Holocaust memorials and while they are great definitely worth visiting, there did feel like an element of the Germans blaming Croats and Poles among others for a lot of the concentration camps. More indirect blame but still felt like their could have been more ownership in Germany's role in this
Why should new Germans be born with "German guilt" and shame you'd like to bring? In Russia they glorify Stalin and he killed alot more. Nobody talks about that? I'm sick of this conversation, Germany knows its past....we know!!..Let's remember, not repeat it and MOVE ON RESPECTFULLY!
No, the Germans did not start the war, don't you know that it is France and Britain that declared war on Germany, pretending it was in defense of Poland, but they never came to help Poland, they even abandoned her to Soviet domination at the end of the war for the next 50 years, they just didn't care, they only used her to get their war and dropped her as soon as she stopped being useful, that's what empires do.
Germany's invasion of Poland (without a declaration of war) on September 1, 1939 marks the start of World War II. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3. The basis for their move was the British-French pledge of support for the independence of Poland on March 31, 1939.
@@DWTravel No, Germany's invasion of Poland marked the invasion of Poland, a local, personal conflict to stop the Poles from killing Germans and attacking people across the border. It only became a world war when Britain, France and their colonies worldwide declared war on Germany instead of coming help Poland as they said they would do, declaring war on Germany didn't help Poland whatsoever, the empires manipulated the Poles to get their war and then they abandoned her to the Soviets for the next 50 years. They did the same thing with Belgium in WW1, they made promises, but didn't keep them.
@@noticerofpatterns9188 Are you kidding me? You can't see the difference between a vicious circle of violence between two fanatic groups that refuse to live witch each other on a tiny speck in the mIddle East and the industrial murder of millions of people in Europe?
Germany is the only country in this world that keeps on criticizing itself rather than making it positive. There are many major countries who commited far worse crimes, uk, france, russia , japan and even us they never criticise themself how germany does. This needs to be changed. Deutchland uber alles in der welt
Thank you very much for posting this. Berlin is a beautiful, historical city for so many reasons, and I hope to visit there very soon.❤🇩🇪
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Thank you Tanja, stay tuned!
@@DWTravel
Thank you, I'm looking forward 😄
Fascinating this needs to be on my bucket list when I come back to Europe for another holiday ( AKA vacation) greetings from the United States 🇺🇸.
Greetings to the U.S.!
@@DWTravel an american teaching me about europe? no thank you.
Informative and don well !!
Man I feel so embarrassed that I was climbing on top of the holocaust memorial as an idiot kid. I didn’t know what they were about
You’re better than the full grown adults who do it for views
Germany fought to save Europe from communism and finance capitalism.
East Berlin in 1986 had a building that had something called the eternal flame. It was guarded by soldiers. Is it still there?
You probably mean the Neue Wache. There was an eternal flame there until 1993, when it was abolished. Since then the Neue Wache is the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny.
I've watched a number of these videos about Berlin memorials. None of them mentioned the stunning diorama on the street outside the Friedrichstrasse train station. The text below in "quotes" is from one of the web sites with photos.
"Frank Meisler's sculpture intitled "Trains to Life, Trains to Death" outside Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station December 8, 2008. The sculpture, inaugurated on November 30, 2008, commemorates the evacuation to England by train of some 10.000 Jewish children in 1938, but also the millions who stayed and and died in concentration camps."
Memory is so unreliable. Last August (2023) I stayed most of a week in a hotel just a few feet away. I saw this memorial multiple times a day as I passed in and out of the train station. My recollection was that there was an open suitcase at her feet or immediately next to her with the remnants of its tossed contents. But looking at all the photos online, that not what they show. I guess my emotions added that.
Regardless, if you are ever at this train station, stop for a moment and contemplate the horror of what is represented. It must not happen again.
In Liverpool we also have a church called St Lukes (also known as the bombed out church) which was destroyed in the Second World War
Cool architecture.
I wish to visit Berlin soon I love Germany 🇩🇪
We hope you get the chance to!
I wanna go so badly
nice documentary....Always interesting to watch the gory past of Germany.....
I have seen on German television that it seem that the Berlin memorial to the murdered six million Jewish men women and children has become a great spot for young German to have fun selfies and even have sex. The way the memorial was built makes it easy for young people to go deep into the blocks so as not to be heard or found. I’m wondering if the young people of Berlin will be having Disco rave parties there one day.
Thank You! Finally a brain on the internet
I wish we could tour Hitler's Bunker. What a great tourist attraction that would have been. 😅
It is a shame that you include one of the Bulgarian Micky Mouse tourist scammers, usually found near Brandenburg Gate, in the intro of your sincere and important video. They force tourists to accept flowers pretending to gift them, but then always demand money and often refuse to take the flower back. The women inside the Micky Mouse costumes themselves are often beaten up and threatened by their masters, a couple of lads running this scheme.
This is why Germany is always now so concentrated on human equality, and making sure what happened in the past does not ever happen again, not only in Germany , but also elsewhere.
It will happen again because Germany doesn't tolerate dissent.
@@ardemuawell said!
@@ardemuabs
Along with freedom and rights, and we plan on keeping it that way in the United States 🇺🇸 MAGA STRONG.
except Palestine
Why, I wonder, the Holocaust is so accentuated when we talk about WW2, having so many other atrocities, that were perpetuated around the world, for instance, the two cataclysmic atomic bombs, that the US experimented on the poor Japanese, who had nothing to do with war.
Of course, there were many other terrible crimes. But the Holocaust is a crime against humanity that is incomparable to anything else.
Missing this place
But there are no memorials for the victims of Fascist Italy right.
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Germany may be lovely today but the millions murdered, humiliated & starved ( all the camps) & tortured & regularly abused will always be their historic shame. No other country perpetrated anything so evil on such a scale ever!
Very well said.
Israel and the Soviet union would like a word
Japan wasn’t innocent neither.
Britain, Usa, and France would like to have a word.
History is told by the victors.
Why did it happen
Bankers
Because people need Jesus and without Him we are all capable of doing worse.
Pomocy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a wast of space . never did one groop of people jack up so meany for what happen in the past
I was in Berlin last May and it an amazing city, with so much history in the last 100 years. Because of WW2 and the Cold War it feels like a crossroads of many things that have shaped the city. We visited a lot of the Holocaust memorials and while they are great definitely worth visiting, there did feel like an element of the Germans blaming Croats and Poles among others for a lot of the concentration camps. More indirect blame but still felt like their could have been more ownership in Germany's role in this
How much more can one 'own it' than putting a giant memorial next to the country's biggest tourist attraction?
"Indirect blame" ?
Enlighten us pls
Why should new Germans be born with "German guilt" and shame you'd like to bring? In Russia they glorify Stalin and he killed alot more. Nobody talks about that? I'm sick of this conversation, Germany knows its past....we know!!..Let's remember, not repeat it and MOVE ON RESPECTFULLY!
No, the Germans did not start the war, don't you know that it is France and Britain that declared war on Germany, pretending it was in defense of Poland, but they never came to help Poland, they even abandoned her to Soviet domination at the end of the war for the next 50 years, they just didn't care, they only used her to get their war and dropped her as soon as she stopped being useful, that's what empires do.
Germany's invasion of Poland (without a declaration of war) on September 1, 1939 marks the start of World War II. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3. The basis for their move was the British-French pledge of support for the independence of Poland on March 31, 1939.
@@DWTravel No, Germany's invasion of Poland marked the invasion of Poland, a local, personal conflict to stop the Poles from killing Germans and attacking people across the border.
It only became a world war when Britain, France and their colonies worldwide declared war on Germany instead of coming help Poland as they said they would do, declaring war on Germany didn't help Poland whatsoever, the empires manipulated the Poles to get their war and then they abandoned her to the Soviets for the next 50 years. They did the same thing with Belgium in WW1, they made promises, but didn't keep them.
@@rosesprog1722 👍 Europa-The Last Battle. 12 hour documentary. Thinking people will give it a chance.
@@rosesprog1722Allies are the one causing all the problems and interfering in other peoples business
They are/were Germans.
Germany didn't deserve reunification.
Can we have one for the palestinians?
It's not quite the same situation, isn't it?
@@karlkarlos3545 It kinda is
@@noticerofpatterns9188 Are you kidding me? You can't see the difference between a vicious circle of violence between two fanatic groups that refuse to live witch each other on a tiny speck in the mIddle East and the industrial murder of millions of people in Europe?
@@noticerofpatterns9188lol you’re brainwashed, this is mass genocide of multiple countries resulting in a world war. 😂😂
Didn’t the Arabs attack?
Need crimes of CIA exposed
Germany is the only country in this world that keeps on criticizing itself rather than making it positive.
There are many major countries who commited far worse crimes, uk, france, russia , japan and even us they never criticise themself how germany does.
This needs to be changed. Deutchland uber alles in der welt
they dont want you to be proud of your heritage cause that would be dangerous for some people with tiny hats who control everything now