BERLIN VLOG - Part 2: German Museum of Technology Deutsches Technikmuseum market Checkpoint Charlie
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- This was the first full day in Berlin, and the morning was spend visiting the German Museum of Technology, followed by an antiques market and my first curry bratwurst of this trip.
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Breakfast & Anhalter: Summer by Benjamin Tissot/Bensound
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Charlie gets the attention because it was the only place where non-Germans, Diplomats and Military Personnel (of the 4 occupying powers) could cross between the French/British/USA Sectors (West Berlin) and the Soviet Sector (East Berlin). The other crossings were limited to Germans, with the exception of Freiderichstrasse which was for rail passengers, including those arriving by U- and S-bahn.
Good vid only went to the then 2 Berlins once in 1985 will have to try and see how it is now
That looked like a Dakota aircraft which I flew in (probably not that one) a few times between Berlin and London with the old Danair airline as it was mighty cheap and mighty dangerous I might add.
NIce, reviewing some of your oldest videos! 🙂
8:08 Did you say "Fokker" or "Focke"? ;-) Because these are obviously completely different companies 🙂
Although nowadays both somehow belong to Airbus:
Focke-Wolf -1961> Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke -1981> Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm -1989> DASA -2000-> EADS -2013 -> Airbus
Fokker was insolvent in 1996, now belongs to GKN Aerospace which is delivering parts for Airbus.
Love it. 👍👍👍
I wonder how many people got the Back To The Future reference 5:36
What's your best memory of Berlin? If you could return tomorrow, what would you do or see?
My best memory was the Tegel airport where I had used more than 30 times
According to Wikipedia "Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, as named by the Western Allies.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On June 26, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin."
Love how the automatic subtitles refuse to name an aircraft, can you guess which one?
I know it was only a quick snapshot, but Berlin looked much poorer than I would have expected for wealthy Germany. A hangover from Communist days?
Berlin is infamous in Germany for constantly being short on money (they are not only the capital, but also a federal state) and somehow screwing things up, like not being able to build a new airport in time. My mom moved from Berlin to Potsdam and feels much happier there. Berlin feels weird to me, like it has taken damage by its complicated history, but a lot of people seem to like it.
checkpoint charlie was border where the British and Americans who were stationed in Westberlin could go to Eastberlin. You don‘t nothing about German history.