THE FINAL DAYS OF EAST GERMANY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2020
- October 2, 1990, Communist East Germany dissolves. The result is freedom but an uncertain future. Film by Quin Mathews. Co-producers Gabriele and Mark Hayes. Original music by Jeff Boland.
Experience the last days of the German Democratic Republic (DRR/GDR) in the homes, streets, and gatherings as the Iron Curtain fell. Footage was filmed thirty years ago and not gathered into a documentary until now. You will experience history through the images and sounds of the time.
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This is an awesome historic videographic vlogg.
Yes indeed memories. I was a US Army Military Police Officer stationed in Heidelberg and remember it all from before the fall of the Wall to the night the Wall fell being on motorized Patrol on tbe road to Unification Night at Midnight October 2nd to the 3rd of 1990.
I was on the diplomatic team watching - I'd made the call on what was about to happen, initially as UK military in 1978, then as a civvy under permanent watch from an FCO vetter in 1988, to the guy which mattered.
Fabulous. We can read all the many books, watch the newsreels about this time yet we can never understand it as well as when we watch this work of art.
Thank you.
A treasure of a film; the families behind the wall. At 23:40 is when it hits me the most. All of this man's entire life and only right now at this very moment does he feel absolutely free for the first time. The man's Unforgettable face says it all. It is the face of Germany in 1990. I also appreciate the eerie Stasi numbers station recordings.
It’s interesting that he said as a prisoner of war herein Australia he was mentally free but in the GDR after the wall his thoughts were not his anymore 😞
Wow, you weren't kidding... What a powerful moment that will stay with me for a long time.
I loved how they added the "Gong & Chimes" numbers station tune to this video. It definitely gives it a special vibe, ad oc to those times.
Heureux d’avoir soutenu les Berlinois . Un ancien grenadier du 46 ri du quartier Napoléon.
Du grand bonheur de voir ces Berlinois de l’est enfin libre.
Ich war 1989 als Student durch Deutschland bzw Berlin gereist, und habe mir das Gelände am Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz) angeschaut. Es muss ein Wahnsinnsgefühl gewesen sein, um durcj das Brandenburger Tor zu spazieren!
What an excellent video! I was stationed in West Berlin (USAF @ Tempelhof) and I was right there on 9 Nov 89 when the wall finally opened. I saw the first people come through the Bornholmerstraße crossing. I arrived a year prior at age 23 and saw the condition of East Berlin, it was literally like stepping back in time. The fear that everyone there had spent decades enduring (especially the terror of the omnipresent Stasi) seemed to completely evaporate that night. The communist regime may have spent decades spouting platitudes of Freiheit und Frieden, but it was all a giant sham. East Germany was a highly militarized nation that spent vast sums of its meager cash reserves on controlling the people who lived there and ensuring they could never leave instead of improving their lives. In short, the country’s rhetoric never matched the situation on the ground. On that November night, the world’s axis felt like it shifted and Berlin became the center of the universe. I went to work the next day slightly hungover and said to my coworkers that we’d all be out of our jobs in less than 5 years, which was prophetic as the last American (and Soviet) forces left a newly-unified Berlin in 1994. I’m left wondering if the doctor in it actually stayed in the East, or moved West? His in-demand skill set guaranteed him a much larger salary in other parts of Germany or Western Europe where he could practically write his own ticket. Thank you for this amazing time capsule! One of the best I’ve seen to date.
I loved listening to the DDR number stations as a child.
I do know even though I dont speak German
(female voice) ein, seben, seben, tzwei, null...................ein, seben, seben tzwei, null!
Weird seeing the Soviets still at their Checkpoint and having that look of abandonment on their faces. The older man who said he had more freedom as a POW says a lot too.
That IS sad, about feeling freer as a POW.
The sadder thing is they would lose their country 1 year later
I would rather live in fascist Italy than socialist soviet trash
They weren’t abandoned. They just witnessed how the East German government was crumbling and falling.
I was in Myrtle Beach SC when the wall fell.
Fascinating glimpse of a pivotal moment in history. Showing it with minimal commentary. Be interesting to learn more about the background how this was made.
Some may miss the days of the DDR, but I bet they don't miss the omni present STASI!
Nice to see so many Trabis, they are a cult car that signifies everything in this great film! I own a 1988 Trabant!
Shonlicher Ossie und Wessie!
А что ужасного в штази?
The big American companies now have their tentacles in every person's pocket. There's no such thing as privacy anymore, the CIA can spy on you without any difficulty. Your phone records everywhere you go, every shop you visit. They can know exactly what you've been searching for online.
@@O_A_Korolevaa vigilant, brutal secret police which specialized in the surveillance and prosecution of its government’s own citizens.
@@O_A_Koroleva really? 🤡
@@lesleyhaan116 Да.. Чем Штази хуже текущей уголовщины и коррупции?
Looks interesting, but it needs English subtitles
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I second that motion. I am deaf.
What a nice man who was a prisoner in Australia and said he was freer then in east Germany. A very important historical film
I’d love to hear what the free ppl of Australia think about that statement now though… hmm? The irony in this comment is inescapable.
He didn't say that...he saif intellectually free!
Bullshit it was intellectually free. The difference in the West is the propaganda is subtle.
Nice one👌👌
It takes 2 generations for the national psyche to change, as it sets to the norm when the individual's seven. You're slightly over halfway.
At the time I recall hearing snarky comments about how each part of the country had evolved differently.
the “freedom with accountability” crew’s dream land.
Parents talked about this all the time
don't we need some english subtitles you think?
I lke the goods, but will always remember what those people did to my people. 6 million people who died is difficult to forget Im sure they went thru some hardships after the great world war 2. in Tel aviv if iu drive a german car you get second looks, my family always drives a Peugeot, or a renault or even a citroen maybe a skoda i dunno he he
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Problems Problems
You should text this in english plz!
I second that motion, I am deaf.
Who’s that waving a Scottish lion around at the end?!
Salmond. He loves united countries.
Weird Muzik
Very fitting
The music don´t fit in
All in all, East Germany had many good things about it... In fact, there are still millions in Germany that yearn to return to the DDR.
Yes. They call it Ostalgie.
More like the Stockholm Syndrome
The videos and interviews are historic and enlightening, a shame about the choice of music. The best song was the gongs and chimes numbers stations recording.
*station
41:09 Yeah Go Canada.
I hope their film making skills have improved. No narration, which if you are going to target an English speaking audience, which it seems to be trying to do, then at least have some translations....
46:30 Russian: go home 👋😅😅😅
Disastro
Нет, немцы показали, что являются дикарями.. Это не катастрофа, это нормально..
You leave English-speakers to do our best at translation:
7:02- 'Ein Deutschland' -'Ein volk'!
10:55 (the store) Yes, you have no certainty; you must compete to succeed. When you do, it is very satisfying.
22:23 - Easy to say when you are (relatively) highly paid as an MD. And then the artificial security of communism suits those who have little ambition; when it ends (as it always does), reality intrudes. Get to work Hans!
24:56 - Australia, just today, deported a tennis player for the thought-crime of perhaps allowing others to think the government position on vaccination might possible be wrong! Oh, how I wish the demise of the DPR were an un-mitigated progression!
26:48 - Again, the artificial security of commies until reality shows up.
28:32 - Someone made the mistake of calling that "music"; it should have died with the DPR, along with its "composer".
33:38 - We need some visual warning when the asshole claiming to be a composer assaults us with his noise.
34:30 -Enough of this disorganized pile of scheiße.
Now we have america... even worse
Democrats are destroying America
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