Where I live, there are a lot of bomb craters in the woods just outside of town from the allied bombings in WWII. Whenever I take a walk in the woods it makes me think about what horrors went down this very place I‘m walking by, about 80 years ago. And now there are those craters left, in the peaceful woods, with birds chirping and nature turning quite a few of the craters into small ponds for animals to live. The scars of the horrors of the past are claimed for the peace of nature. It never ceases to amaze me.
Berlin is a very unique city, being divided after the war. What became West Berlin was basically torn down and rebuilt, all the battle damage is almost all gone or hard to find. East Berlin was a totally different story. If the structures were still standing and sound, basically nothing was done. I was stationed West Berlin in the early 70’s.
@@mikes1798 , during my tour, we ended up near the Czech border. On a Friday evening, the locals stood in line awaiting their turn to go into the local butcher shop, in order to get their weekly meat rations... equal to approximately 5 pounds per family of 4. Also, those who had TVs had to share their tvs during government broadcast, as there was believed to have been 1 appliance for every 5 families, during a time when state laws forbade the gathering of more than a handful of citizens in any location, due to fears of planning escapes. On the wall, they had guard towers, which were approximately 100 feet apart, and occupied by 2 Soviet soldiers, of which neither knew each other, and during their tours, their families were relocated to enclaves, in order that the guards thought twice about their own escapes.. both guards were warned that if the other attempted escape, they and their families could face a Court Martial with severe consequences.
The entire City is full of these scars from the War. This Video shows many of them, but there are so many more all over the city. And not only Berlin, look in any major city in central or eastern Europe and you’ll find these scars of history, to remind us of that terrible war we had 80 years ago.
Hi mate if you know of more locations of war damage in Berlin I would like to see them on my next trip to Berlin and I could do a second video next year.
Interesting. Thank you. when I visited in East Berlin 1984 there were still ruins and houses were in poor condition. I did stay in West Berlin but I spent one day in East side. Thank you for photos.
Russell, great job! There are places I didn't know. It is a very educational video and very well edited. It shows the scars of the war almost 80 years after it happened. We will keep waiting for more. Congratulations!. Greetings, Ignacio.
Thanks Ignacio for your comment, some of the war damage was quite shocking especially the stone work that gets eaten away by machine gun fire and shell impacts. And now the damage is protected by law so should be preserved for ever. All the best mate, good to hear from you.
@@Russell9241 Hi Russell, congratulations on the performance of the video, it is very interesting to the people, and congratulations on the growth of your channel. You have done a great job, we are waiting for more. A hug from Argentina.
@@IgnacioVeutroProductions Thanks Ignacio, you are such a good person and we have a great friendship, I hope to post a new production very soon, take care and best wishes to you, your family and Argentina, so a big hug from me also.
Excellent video....I have been to Berlin several times over the decades, and have seen a lot of war damaged buildings, but you have shown some damaged places I did not know of, thanks!!
Russell, Thanks for this very interesting and worthwhile video. I live in Berlin myself and apart from seeing bullet holes and some scarring on the sides of some buildings it honestly never occurred to me to check more of it out. I will do so when I return there soon-thanks again and good luck on your future travels!
Hi Tom thanks for your comment really appreciated and I am hoping to visit Berlin again next June and follow up more WW2 true events and look for more war damage locations, Berlin is a really interesting place and I love cycling there.
It was so interesting finding these places and seeing the war damaged buildings, I will go back next year and find more WW2 history to put on here, thanks for your comment.
@@kevincook1618 I think it was the soviet 55th guards tank brigade that advanced along this street and the armour piercing round does seem to melt its way through the metal.
Next to the Deutsche Technische museum, there are alot of railways magazine buildings, but only about 2/3rds of them have been restored and cleared or were unharmed in the war. Still to this day, it was fenced off, due to being uncleared of war debris, at least when I visited Berlin in 2016. It was pretty cool to see, that this is the exact same, untouched devestation that Berliners saw back then, and this is just still there, 71 years later
@@Russell9241 Yes please do. I also recommend the Museum, it was awesome. They had 3 sections, aircraft and air travel, Boats and shipping, and Railway history. So many awesome old vehicles and planes. They had a BF 110, a HE 219, a He 162 among other stuff
At the mid e minute mark , could you imagine the steel ringing and glowing red as you were cowering behind it as possibly it might have been when the AP round went through it and exploded or possibly went a little further down before it exploded. Couldn't imagine what that would be like. Not all glory , more like death and gloom as people were dying everywhere around.
An armour piercing round from a Russian tank made the hole in the steel part of the bridge, other dents probably shrapnel damage from high explosive shells.
Yo viví en el Berlín de la caída del muro,y los rastros de la batalla son aún evidentemente en muchas fachadas de casas,arañadas por las balas de todos los calibres y miles y miles de balas en cada fachada Y si ibas a la zona oriental Había zonas que parecía que aún había combates. Escombros apilados cerca de casas y estas mucho más castigadas y rehabilitadas en el lado occidental También estuve en el único búnker antiaéreo gigante que quedaba Con muros de 6 de hormigón Y los proyectiles más potentes,solo habían dejado una marca Era impresionante
Absolutely and a Russian tactic was if a building was a German strongpoint they would use artillery to collapse the building forcing the German defenders to abandon before it fell down and crushed them
The madness of destruction and casualties by a leader that would never accept defeat even at the cost of his entire population. Where do we hear these stories again today?
Well he & all other great Germans of their time new what the future would be like if they gave up , WOKE ! - MAN HATING FEMINISTS - SEXUAL PERVERTED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE - INTERBREEDING .... That's just a few things worth fighting against 🤔
Are these locations in the former East Berlin side? I lived in West Berlin for three years and most of the bullet and bomb damage had been repaired. Rare to see a bullet hole in brick work unless one travelled into East Berlin and drove around the side streets.
I enjoyed the video. It's interesting how Europe is so used to war that things like this are looked past. In the US there are towns where homes are still standing where cannonballs and bullets are stuck in the sides of houses still and people treat them with such respect and reverence.
There is shrapnel and bullet holes, usually shrapnel is an irregular shape and bullet a round shaped hole. Smaller shrapnel marks could be from hand grenades or tiny shell splinters
Hallo, du hast die Wohnhäuser an der Grellstr. zwichen Greifswalder Str. und Prenzlauer Allee nicht erwähnt. Vieles ist da renoviert, aber es sind noch Spuren zu sehen. Die ganzen Wohnzüge wurden beschossen. Gruß aus PrenzBerg.
I lived in Berlin Germany in the late 90s. I also lived there in 1987. I still can't believe they didn't fix War marks left over from the Second World War. It's goddamn disturbing. I'm 47 years old. The same marks were in there when I was 12 years old. The Germans are too God damn cheap to fix anything. I'm still a German citizen and a Canadian citizen. Watching this video makes me want to give up my German citizenship.
All war damage in Berlin is now protected by law and is important as a reminder to people of the horrors of war, I hope you will keep your German citizenship.
All war damage in Berlin is now protected by law there, it was so interesting finding these places I thought it would be a good idea to share the locations.
You neede to take a look at the italien embassy there are sektion where you can even see destruction by bombs and verry intresting Shooting patterns in the walls.
...und da taucht auf einmal ein Kerl mit einer Panzerfaust auf, (13:50), wie ein Geist aus der Vergangenheit!!! Beeindruckend! Ähnliche "Schäden" kenn´ ich aus Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover... Wahre Mahnmäler!!!
That's weird. I'm watching the video right now, and I'm sitting in Berlin Neukölln, looking at a church tower in bright, beautiful weather, which shows numerous scars of the war.
@@Russell9241 Its the St Christopherus Church, in Nansenstrasse Neukölln. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Christophorus-Kirche_(Berlin-Neuk%C3%B6lln) There is a little Photo in Wikipedia, where you can see the holes.
warum wir wir als das volk sind nicht diejenigen die kontrolle haben. und "nichts gelernt" ist halt so uralt schwarz und weiss perspektive. schon klar wie es gemeint war, damit war sicherlich der russiche krieg usw gemeint dass es immer noch kriege auf der welt gibt
My Uncles might have put a few of those bullets in the walls of Berlin as they were part of the Soviet Army that went into Berlin and my Dad was in lower Germany with the 2nd NZEF
The chips and holes in bricks, stone and steel are unquestionably from weapons. I'm doubtful about the hole in the sidewalk stone block, however, for several reasons. First, sidewalks and streets undergo constant use and need to be repaired and resurfaced regularly, unlike the walls of buildings. Second, I'm sure the bombs were larger than the hole, and a non-functioning bomb would therefore have caused more damage than is seen here.
I was told by a local man that it was from an allied bomb and that for many years there was a hole in the pavement that got filled with tarmac eventually.
@@Russell9241 - You brought awareness to the curious. I'll use this vid as a reference to find these spots. Sooner or later I must see them. Next flight thru Berlin instead of Frankfurt. Thx again
@@nassermj7671 Thats great that you will visit Berlin, I can honestly say the best way to get around is on a cycle I always rent one from Take a Bike, near Friedrichstrasse train station they are very good and a weekly rate is 8 euro per day, single days about 12 euro this is how I get to all the locations in the video.
Great video! You know, I can appreciate a reminder here and there, but I wonder if all these reminders are keeping Germany from sending substantial numbers of offensive weapons to Ukraine? Don't get me wrong, Germany has done great in terms of humanitarian aid and support for Ukrainian refugees, but it could've approved sending all that old equipment in storage to help out.
It's really interesting during reconstruction after the war what they decided to not fix as a memorial so to speak for how awful that war was. Shame some of these are painted offer with graffiti by a few assholes.
Thanks for your comment, filming in slow motion and using photos will not record any sound, any shots in normal speed was on very quiet streets with no traffic or people around.
@@november151956 iphone are very good, but will the sound be slowed if its done in slow motion ? I use a video camera and use the video on my mirrorless one, and both wont record sound in slow motion.
@@Russell9241 Du kannst doch noch ne Atmo aufnehmen oder urheberrechtsfreie Mucke unterlegen. In der Großen Hamburger ist übrigens das Haus rechts vom Eingang der Sophienkirche von Schrapnelgeschossen stark perforiert worden, falls du noch nach anderen Beispielen suchst.
Da fallen mir dezent noch zwei Orte ein. Die Eisenbahnbrücken über der Yorckstraße. Da kann man noch gut sehen. Oder in meiner Ecke. Alt Friedrichsfelde. Über der Straße geht auch eine Eisenbahnbrücke entlang, wo die Mauern gut durchsiebt wurden. Damals in der Ruschestr. Lichtenberg. Konnte man entlang der Straße, sämtliche Einschläge in den Häuserwänden sehen. Leider wurden die Gebäuden vor vielen Jahren Gedämmt. So das man es nicht mehr sieht. In Grunde genommen. Wenn man durch ganz Berlin geht, sieht man wirklich hier und da ein paar Stellen.
No its a very clean and well managed city, there are some areas that do have graffiti but its mainly quite nice art as at the East Side Gallery and there is other places such as around Mehringplatz and the Hackesche Hofe
@@stevenpiper970 I think it depends where you are. It`s true that graffiti paintings are less seen nowadays but in certain spots buildings are full. Especially in areas with low income population.
@@Nitramrec Ich glaub der weiß selba net was er verzapft. Viele dieser Männeken sind Spinner die irgendwie in dieser braunen Soße feststecken. Mit heilig meint er also sicher nicht das heilige römische Reich deutscher Nation sondern Adolf Hosenpießlers kranken Traum von Europa.
@@Nitramrec NEIN, glauben heißt nicht wissen. ☝ ABER was ich weiß, daran glaube ich auch. Wenn ich weiß, dass ich gut bin, kann ich an mich glauben.(z.B. als Kampfsportler) Einfach glauben, dass ich gut bin ohne es zu wissen wäre eine Illusion. ☝ Genau so weiß ich, dass Deutschland einmal ein heiliges Deutschland war, u.a. DARUM WURDE ES VERNICHTET. Die BRD ist nicht Deutschland und schon gar kein Staat, sondern besetztes Gebiet auf dem HYBRIDER KRIEG gegen das noch verbliebene Deutsche Volk statt findet. VERSTANDEN ?
