What you had as lunch in the end of the video was *not* a Döner Kebap, it was a Schawarma sandwich, which is an Arabic dish, whilst Döner Kebap is a Turkish dish, invented here in Berlin/Germany in its current form (but there was a slightly different version in Turkey and other areas, already).
As Someone born and raised in Berlin, yes whole west of Berlin was surrounded by the wall. I live just outside of Berlin and where I live there is still a watchtower from that time. The east side gallery is not the only place where you can still find pieces of the wall. If you look closely, you still see the impact of the devision nowadays. East Berlin is heavy influenced by Eastern European architecture and some streets still carry names of eastern famous political persons. I grew up in the French sector, where some streets are still in French. Crazy times back then, my grandfather tells me about it all the time. They actually escaped east Berlin one day before the wall was built. There are also still places you can visit where they show escape tunnels from people trying to dig their way under the wall
1:31 That doesn't work anymore. The Eastern Ampelmännchen has become sort of a mascot for the entirety of Berlin after the reunification and can now be found all over West Berlin as well.
the wall was around western berlin, not "the west". "the west" is west germany wich had no wall, only to the east a normal border like in north korea :D
A friend gave me a piece of the wall. His wife was German and her father lived on the west side with the wall at his back yard. When they were tearing it down, my friend asked to use his jackhammer so he could get some pieces. I met her father when he came to the US. He didn't speak English, but I spoke some German. All these people are gone.
If u need a place to stay for a few days or a week or maybe 2. In south Germany near Augsburg, Lauingen Danube. I would offer in the time of August. There are some events in the area, if u got nothing to do.
going there by every day by bike or car. It's funny how this is just a random street for us living here but for tourist and especially first timers this is mind blowing ♥️
While Berlin definitely was (and is) special, all of Germany was devided. No wall, but massive fences and guarding along that border from north to south. You can still see it today on it's entire length. By the way, the wall came down in 1989, almost 35 years ago.
I grew up with the wall in the neighborhood and well ... I think it also had some advantages. Even as a 6-year-old, I was allowed to ride my bike long distances on my own, because my parents knew that we kids couldn't get lost. And we didn't need a compass ... East was in all directions. When I look back on that time, I always think of a line from Reinhard Mey: "How often did I see it (the wall), until I finally didn't see it anymore" (from the song "Mein Berlin"... I wish there was a YT version with English subtitles).
As a german we learned at scool day after day, that we are guilt, we are Nazis and all the fckn stuff about WWII, so thx for this history leason, that we have at scool only a little bit... but ok, we know of sure, that the Wall was around Berlin and Berlin was of the east side of Germany, also that was the DDR, and for me good I was born on west side, but after the revolution, a lot of the west german guys made friendships with east guys, so one of my best friend came from the DDR and thats cool, because we learned so lot from the different politics and of curse living in the DDR was not only bad, but west gearmans were privilliged. Now come on, go on a football play (soccer), its Euro 24 and you meet a lot of ppl frome other EU countries... so you must go to a fan walk, or to the fan mille, public viewing.
Well, the last time I was there, there was just a wooden construction fence - with admittedly great signs, but completely overgrown. My mother grew up in Bernauer Straße - in the backyard of number 97 to be precise - and was constantly telling me stories from the time after 1961. An older gentleman who was standing nearby overheard this and introduced himself to us as Klaus-Michael von Keussler. He was one of the escape helpers at Tunnel 57. There's also a pretty good museum about that time nearby - but I think I would have been pretty bored there without the family connection.
I was there years ago with my parents. We met the same guy selling the original wall pieces, some of then with pictures of him breaking them from the wall. Apparently he takes the time to tell his story to a lot of tourists. There are a lot of fake wall piece souvenirs, but this guy definitely sells the real deal.
West Berlin was the West Pole of the Planet! If you are on the South Pole, every direction is north. If you are on the North Pole, every direction is South. If you were in West Berlin, wher ever you wanna go, its always the East!
My advice is you try to gather more info about The Wall.... When it was built this was honestly brutal, harsh and "menschenverachtend". Families had been divided: Mom in the one Berlin and Dad with the kids in the other Berlin. Brother and sister separated etc. Imagine the worst. It was not without reason so many people tried to flee: In the earlier years of the wall it was mostly because of familiy reasons, later the regime.
It´s interessting to see how people still or are first amazed about this wall after 35 years. By the way, if you are really a believer and follower of Jesus Christ you will notice that there is no good or bad politics. All countries don´t serve their own people but only their own interesst. Be awake and walk with God together!
True but then there definitely is bad and VERY bad politics so you cannot say that without putting it into context. I’m happy and grateful that I live in Germany, a safe country with moderate wealth and independent public institutions. Many states either have much higher corruption where politicians serve their own interests on a much higher level or they are countries that don’t give a sh*t about personal freedoms or free elections (e.g. Russia).
Conner this is weird to admit but i had you has a schizo character and you where being super sweet to me teaching me about Germany and you playing football even though its fake it was still cool
I dislike the way a lot of people esp. americans use the term communism as if it was synonyme with autharitarian dictature. I mean sure, it didnt work out well in the Ussr but in the end it is a model. There are a lot of bad examples for capitalism too. Both are concepts with their pro's n con's
