The Glienicke Bridge - The Bridge of Spies

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The Glienicke Bridge connects Berlin and Potsdam.
As the Berlin city border lies in the middle of the bridge, the bridge was closed during the Cold War.
This video will tell you more about the history of the bridge, the spy exchanges and a spectacular escape.
As main source I used the book "Glienicker Brücke - Ausufernde Geschichten" by Thomas Bless.
The author has a website in English: www.glienicke-bridge.com/index...
Not far from the bridge you can find (and visit):
- Babelsberg Park (www.spsg.de/en/palaces-garden...)
- Cecilienhof Palace (www.spsg.de/en/palaces-garden...)
- Potsdam (www.potsdam-sanssouci.com/en/...)
Sources of the pictures (of which I thank the creators):
- Escape March 1988: Foto: BStU, Ast. Potsdam, Abt. IX Nr. 122, Bd. 2
- Märkisches Museum, Berlin
- Gary Powers: By RIA Novosti archive, image #35172 / Chernov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Rudolf Abel: By FBI - www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/f..., commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Marian Zacharski: By eSerwis - Legenda polskiego wywiadu generał Marian Zacharski (3:05), CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Natan Sharansky: Par Source by Kika Sso. This image bt SegalHe (talk) - Nathan Sharansky and Image:Natan Sharansky.jpg, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Wolfgang Vogel: By static01.nyt.com/images/2008/0..., Fair use, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Пікірлер: 23

@cmartin_ok Жыл бұрын

I walked across the bridge in October 2022.... vacation for a week in Berlin and I took a day trip to Potsdam which is a fascinating city in its own right. Something I won't forget.....

@john07973 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff, thanks 👍

@konachcim6114 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@darkWorkOne Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, great footage!

@pradolover 10 ай бұрын

Another great vieeo on this fascinating channel. ❤

@wavecreatures 4 ай бұрын

A fantastic video. I hope you make many more!

@tealeafandco 10 ай бұрын

Are you going to do a video on Erich Honecker? Theres a picture of him in your intro but it doesn’t look like you’ve done a video about him. 👍

@cr7hd5678 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Are you working on Klein Glienicke or Entenschnabel videos?

@eastgermanyinvestigated Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing these ideas, Michael! At least Klein Glienicke is on my list of planned videos.

@fredyellowsnow7492 4 ай бұрын

You'd think the GDR would have made some effort to match the paint colour.

@annehersey9895 8 ай бұрын

You talked about people attempting to drive across the bridge but what about just swimming from East to West? For a good swimmer, not even an excellent swimmer, that isn't a bad swim at all. That's how I would have chosen to make my escape in the middle of the night.

@dannyboy-vtc5741 3 ай бұрын

Fences, guard/sniper towers and dogs, you don't know how the border between two germanies looked like, it's where the name iron curtain comes from.

@efnissien 10 ай бұрын

Have you thought of doing a piece on Major Arthur Nicholson?

@petermitchelmore2592 Жыл бұрын

Glienicke bridge and Checkpoint Charlie performed similar roles.

@samuelbcn 7 ай бұрын

At 1:50 you say that West Berlin was part of the FRG. It wasn't.

@SmokeyBCN 29 күн бұрын

it was claimed by the republic and west berlin residents were also BRD citizens

@wanderschlosser1857 7 сағат бұрын

@@SmokeyBCN Still it did not politically and legally belong to West Germany (FRG) until the reunification 3rd October 1990.

@khbvdl1 10 ай бұрын

Je kent deze mogelijk al: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gL2hbNZnl8-vhHk.html

@FlagArmadaProductions 10 ай бұрын

I love the pathetic attempt to mask the name's Slavic origins by adding endless e's and other letters. Doesn't writing German get cumbersome?

@linusfotograf 10 ай бұрын

Which name?

@Tobi-ln9xr 9 ай бұрын

It’s about the same as Americans who can’t even pronounce their own germanic surname correctly.

@linusfotograf 8 ай бұрын

@@certyfikowanyprzewracaczhu3390 I wouldn't either. The OP is obviously right-wing and a friend of Russia who's trying to push some agenda here.