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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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14 жыл бұрынWe took this video footage at the East/West German Border near Hof, West Germany two days after the Berlin Wall came down. It shows the East German (GDR) citizens streaming into West Germany in their Trabants (East German-made cars), most for the first time in their lives. The emotions of both the East Germans coming into West Germany and the West Germans welcoming them is visible in the faces and voices of the people in the video.
The West German government gave each East Germany visitor 250DM in "begruessungsgelt" (welcome-money) since the East Germany currency was worthless in West Germany and otherwise they would not have been able to afford to visit. The line outside the Red Cross building is for East Germans to collect their money.
The normally high-speed German autobahns were crowded with the slow-moving traubies, making for many traffic jams and very unsafe driving conditions.
All-in-all it was a tremendously emotional and moving event to witness.
@cadeh072 4 жыл бұрын
The description is a must read! And isn't this just crazy? Imagine how excited these people were to experience freedom...
@steelmarillion Жыл бұрын
Unbeliveble quality! Look's like filmed yesterday
@piercehawke8021 Жыл бұрын
Excellent point, I picked up on that as well, since quite a few color movies recorded back then looked like something out of the 1930's, despite only being 20 years old when the video was put together.
@tonykirchner5418 5 жыл бұрын
Oh god, I love it. So many Trabants!
@andre_roim0511 2 жыл бұрын
and volgas, skodas, ladas, wartburgs etc
@TFSIChristmas 2 жыл бұрын
I want one ngl
@piercehawke8021 Жыл бұрын
33 years later; at least the Trabants have a hardcore 'cult' following, since in a way' they're now 'cool'.....those little sedans come across as now having a 'Hipster' ride.
@piercehawke8021 Жыл бұрын
@@andre_roim0511 Volgas' also have a following and are starting to fetch some serious $$$, especially the rare KGB 'Chasers' with the Chaika V8. Admittedly, a lot of 4 banger 'retail' sedans were converted over with said Eights but, still.
@mrannen1958 8 жыл бұрын
notice how nice the Trabis looked that were soon abandoned
@oest2029 5 жыл бұрын
Wow, amazing footage. Thank you for sharing. It seems nearly all other footage of the DDR is in black and white (I guess that's all they had access to), so it's wonderful also that this is in colour.
@youraveragegamer2710 Жыл бұрын
Seeing so many Trabants is just amazing.
@dolbyvixen 2 жыл бұрын
I watched this video and couldn't help but smile. The excitement and then relief that East Germans must have felt crossing into West Germany must have been something else!
@piercehawke8021 Жыл бұрын
The Wall 'fell' two days prior; and the vibe was that East Germany's time was already coming to the end. I'll admit that both the BundesPolizei and the VolksPolizei handled this sudden change rather well.
@misfiring_system 4 жыл бұрын
Look at all those Trabants, Škodas, Wartburgs, Ladas and Polski Fiats!
@Snufkin812 Жыл бұрын
7:34 That Lada was produced for 22 more years with the same design. It is very ironic that a car that experienced a historic event 30 years ago can still be easily found in Russia and Eastern Europe today!
@Theo_cracy Жыл бұрын
Many young people buys em as a car for a winter. It was just a shit. And was producing till 2012
@barbaraannen3340 6 жыл бұрын
So many Trabis
@desertfox3822 4 жыл бұрын
I hear camera going off in the background sometimes. Is there any chance I could see those pictures?
@filipmac1545 6 жыл бұрын
look at all those trabants!!
@jakebarton9199 2 жыл бұрын
as soon as they saw a opel cadet or vent golf they where probably abandoned
@jakebarton9199 2 жыл бұрын
ah so many lada and trabants
@pinselplins 10 жыл бұрын
this was an exciting time (I was eleven) and my parents are with me at that time about the Glienicke Bridge to berlin
@ronaldreagan2444 4 жыл бұрын
Ladas and Trabants in the same place Hardbass Intensifies
@deez8202 2 жыл бұрын
you forgot the wartburgs
@Offical_LadaRiva_1982 3 ай бұрын
Yugos and Skodas too
@1938dmkdz 14 жыл бұрын
1938dmkdz we were here maybe two months later, thought this area was alittle better than the rest of east germany and also the road in this area.
@bill2893 11 жыл бұрын
So many different types of (colour of) cars! Whoever said communism didn't give you choice?
@Born782 6 жыл бұрын
hahhahahhahah
@vitkunak7968 Жыл бұрын
yes, one day, they decide to produce trabant in blue colour, because they have blue colour, next day, they have another colour, so they use this colour.
@user-jx2xc9ex8f 4 жыл бұрын
I love the trabants OMG heaven
@achtunger5528 Жыл бұрын
I can smell the fumes...
@1938dmkdz 14 жыл бұрын
dmkdz two more things I remember, cars burning of cars in the countryside and in east berlin we were lost so I looked for lites and this way I found west berlin. you could barely see one block the emissons was so bad BUT the people were friendly.
@chickenoraria7559 7 ай бұрын
Wow, amazing old car sounds.
@sarahdotswift 2 жыл бұрын
Hello - just following up on a previous comment to see if you have any objections to us using this footage in a UK TV programme? Many thanks, Sarah
@capegale 2 жыл бұрын
That's fine Sarah. Could you post a link to the programme once it's done if it's available online? Thanks.
@oldmanc2 3 жыл бұрын
5:43 surely dead of carbon monoxide poisoning by now
@jasu5650 Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, the trabants...
@ichundgrisu3823 Жыл бұрын
Amazing video
@TheTerrier1993 3 жыл бұрын
Volk will zu Volk!
@binnydinney9739 3 жыл бұрын
The happiest day in the USA besides the 4th. The beginning of the end of communism.
@farhannaufal9409 4 жыл бұрын
Volkswagen 2019
@user-in5wp8yo2i 3 жыл бұрын
Is trabi rare in 2021 in berlin??
@pappenchrischan5775 3 жыл бұрын
rare everywhere
@Offical_LadaRiva_1982 3 ай бұрын
@@pappenchrischan5775I found a trabi from 1986 for only 800€
@chachachaudhary391 4 жыл бұрын
They all kept driving their cars and smoky brethren , until abandoning them near leipzig.
@Angus1966 11 жыл бұрын
Welfare will soon be cut to nothing, then how do the unemployed survive ?
@binnydinney9739 3 жыл бұрын
@@MartinThePanda but working is so awful? How do the rest of us survive it? Oh wait, it’s fine we just tough it up.
@carrietide 3 жыл бұрын
❤
@quas392 Жыл бұрын
its funny counting how many wartburgs were crossing the border considering those cars were reserved for those higher up the pecking order (doctors, teachers, airmen, ministers etc)
@sutherlandA1 2 жыл бұрын
So many east German cars were kaput, they all seem to be burning oil 😂🛢️💨
@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 2 жыл бұрын
they are burning oil by design: they are two-stroke engines.
@sniff6058 2 жыл бұрын
Next: fall of the Korean DMZ followed with many Pyeonghwa cars
@deez8202 2 жыл бұрын
well that's gonna take years or even a couple of decades for that to happen bud besides they got eem volvos aswell lol
@Widdekuu91 2 жыл бұрын
@@deez8202 Hey, you never know...it might be a couple of decades and it might just be next week.
@guymontag9577 Жыл бұрын
Go Trabi Go!
@richardque4952 3 жыл бұрын
These trabant can worth fortune
@SIRlodgey 12 жыл бұрын
Trabants everywhere
@Angus1966 11 жыл бұрын
What happened to the East German informers ?
@oldmanc2 3 жыл бұрын
Became Estate Agents I read
@Brick-Life 5 жыл бұрын
tHE TRAbant is so charming
@Brick-Life 4 жыл бұрын
so many colours of trabbis!
@Angus1966 11 жыл бұрын
No need to , once your anti DDR government views had been informed on you would not be issued with permission to drive , the funny thing is the West has adopted many of the east german policing tactics. You are now on file.
@blackfootnavajo 6 жыл бұрын
refugees are welcome here
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