Very enjoyable and intriguing video all the way through. Cool to see locations in today's time. Great video, Ethan!
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Cheers Mario!
@Jipwell Жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoyed your visit! It’s a great city
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
It is a fascinating place!
@gamerboy6787 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this here video. I've never had the Berlin Wall and its associated history explained to me in this much detail before. Thank you for all your hard work!
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
This is only the broad strokes really, it's far deeper than one youtube video but we did our best!
@eurasian736 ай бұрын
Great video. My wife and I visited Berlin in November 2023. We were impressed with the city and found the history to be quite interesting. We too wanna visit again and German beer is fantastic!
@DecadesVideosАй бұрын
Thank you for watching! I'm headed back to Berlin next month and I covet the beer.
@Longshanks1690 Жыл бұрын
I forget the exact details but apparently when Reagan was travelling to Berlin for his Brandenburg speech, he was told by his German policy experts and advisers not to bring the topic of the wall up. So far as everyone was concerned, it was a settled topic and he shouldn’t cause unnecessary controversy by bringing it up. Not being German, Reagan heeded their advice. Then when he was in Berlin at an event of some sort, he was speaking to Berliners and the topic of the wall came up, and it was here Reagan realised the truth - it wasn’t that the wall was accepted, everyone hated the wall, they hated what it was and what it represented and wanted it to come down, the only reason they didn’t talk about it was because they’d given up hope of it ever happening. It was apparently these conversations that made Reagan change his mind and made him determined to make the Wall a key focus of his upcoming speech instead. One may criticise Reagan and the United States more broadly for many things, especially in the 20th century and the Cold War, but there should be no doubt that in the matter of Berlin, Reagan was unequivocally on the right side and did the right thing. And while his admirers tend to overstate his influence in ending the wall, the Cold War and the Soviet Union, it’s nevertheless undoubtable that his words and influence brought immeasurable benefit to the German reunification effort. It’s not hard to see why this point was described as the end of history, the beginning of the spread of liberal democracy to every corner of the globe as it was an unstoppable force of good and justice. A feeling which lasted roughly until about September 2001. Regardless, that initial optimism when the wall came down was evocative of a genuine euphoria which spread throughout Germany and Europe at that time in the wake of the collapse of communism and Reagan’s words in the right place and the right time played more than a small part in helping bring that into reality.
@piercehawke8021Ай бұрын
On another KZfaq channel; 3 days after the Wall opened, the VoPos and Bundespolizei set up at least one direct telephone line so both agencies could handle crowd control, AKA mundane police work. Also the BuPos parked a string of police vehicles right in front of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with their now VoPo colleagues handling things on their side. Around then; 2 new checkpoints were opened by each end of the Gate.
@mattgeorge90 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing!
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Thank you for joining us
@jungle8921 Жыл бұрын
So happy VTH recommended your channel to me. Now one of my favourites
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
@suecrowhurst4393 Жыл бұрын
Love the history thankyou
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@oldthrasbarg64111 ай бұрын
A great vid. Well put together and presented. A big well done, I look forward to seeing more of your work.
@DecadesVideos11 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@bardiaozzie Жыл бұрын
Hyped to go there myself in three weeks! Awesome video.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Absolutely glorious city!
@chipmunkhunt Жыл бұрын
I was stationed there for 3 years. 1984 to 1987. Wish I could get back there to walk thru the Brandenburg Gate
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
This was my first time visiting the city, beautiful place.
@attilay2k224 Жыл бұрын
Wow those 41 minutes flew by, great work guys. I can't wait to see what's coming next.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@witoldknitter49959 ай бұрын
I was lucky to be in West Berlin. Amazing city!
@DecadesVideos7 ай бұрын
Indeed, quite fond of Berlin
@guitaristanime Жыл бұрын
Great video, well done.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@hawtozer Жыл бұрын
I once heard that "Ich bin ein Berliner" actually roughly translates to "I am a doughnut" in German, because the German word for "Berliner" is different. Could be BS though.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
Yeah Berliner can mean doughnut.
@connorjonesdecades521 Жыл бұрын
Oh yes this is going to be a goodone
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
This is the beginning of a long saga of visits.
@giovanni8199 Жыл бұрын
Really cool to see all these places I have been to aswell I just thought it was a shame that there was so much grafitti on the berlin wall. I don't understand why they don't just remove it.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
They actually do remove any that crops up on the Eastern side, but graffiti on the Western side is considered authentic I think.
@gavinhirst3136 Жыл бұрын
Have I just done the mental arithmetic correctly? AIN'T NO WAY Fizhy is only 23 🤣 You must've had a tough paper round lad
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
What makes you say that? And I'm 22 until 5 days from now.
@gavinhirst3136 Жыл бұрын
@@DecadesVideos Nothing physical brother, your humour is just so dark and cynical I assumed you were at least 30 and fed up with life 🤣
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
@@gavinhirst3136 good to know that by 30 I'll be spinning some really unhinged jokes then.
@gavinhirst3136 Жыл бұрын
@@DecadesVideos Cannot wait, I'll still be here, keep up the good work man
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
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@Longshanks1690 Жыл бұрын
I wonder how the car park over the Furherbunker is regarded by Berliners today. Is it just another place you don’t really think much of, or is it somewhere you consciously try to avoid going to unless you don’t have much other choice? Either rationale would make sense but humans are superstitious creatures by nature, and I really wouldn’t blame any German who wants to avoid any association with that time as possible, even if it’s something as irrational as not using a car park because of what it was built on top of.
@DecadesVideos Жыл бұрын
I think it's a private car park and residents just use it to park their cars as all the buildings around appear to be apartments and there are barriers. I don't think locals think about it, though. The city itself isn't shy about it as there's a plaque identifying it for what was there before it. When it comes to the dark side of history, you'll find car parks serve as the ultimate insult. Removing the symbol of what came before and replacing it with nothing meaningful, such as a car park, goes to show what the Germans today think of the Nazis. To answer your dilemma, the car park is just that, a car park, and that's the point.