How the Berlin Wall Worked
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Examining the border wall that separated East and West Berlin.
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The longstanding difference between the two sides of the wall is crazy to see. There are many statistics in which you can still see the divide where the wall used to stand.
For example the number of Turks and Arabs vs Vietnamese and Russians
@@miliba there are more Russians in West Germany cause they arrived in the 90s after the collapse of the USSR. The Soviet soldiers in East Germany left with their families in the 90s.
There is a similar wall in occupied Palestine and many of people who are horrified with Berlin war support that wall.
Truly disgusting people.
For example the type of lightbulb used in berlin used lets you see a clear line of where it was at night.
@@YakrifZeewhat’s interesting is Palestn people voted for “Hummus” and 72% believe Oct 7 was good. The same people for decades tried to eradicate Israelis and the state
Escaped with my family to the "golden west" in 1970. Thanks, father. Best present you could make to a child growing up.
How old are you
@@zothantluanga19ibig10
Old enough. ;-) One of the last baby boomers.
How...? We are curious..
@@jeftaswara2192
We did not return from a vacation at lake Balaton in the Hungarian People's Republic. My father bribed people and paid a small fortune to get forged papers. We then traveled over Austria to Southern Germany.
@Dr.W.Krueger thanks for sharing this story. Your father is a brave man.
My grandmother escaped from the east on new years eve of 1961 by passing through the border checkpoint with the pass of a woman from Belgium that looked very similar to her which was smuggled in by my granfather who was living in Westberlin when visiting her. Of course the border guards noticed the missing immigration stamp on the pass but after 12+ hours of cross-examination they let her go.
No replies, lemme fix that
That's actually crazy!
The border guards didn't realize within 12 hrs that your grandmother was not from Belgium? I mean people from Belgium usually have either a French or a Dutch accent when speaking German.
@@wanderschlosser1857I mean I feel like there were so many lies she could’ve told to cover that. “Oh I was raised here but moved to Belgium with my family years ago” “I moved with my husband after we got married for his work.” My dad was born and raised in the Netherlands. Didn’t speak a ton of English till he was 25. And now, he doesn’t really have a Dutch accent anymore when he speaks English.
I call BS on YOU
A former teacher of mine who was a guard at the wall for the east when he was young told us how he started questioning it once he realized that it looked like it was keeping them in rather than keeping others out. He said he was glad that he never encountered anyone during his duty, because if he had, he wouldn't have had the chance to deny doing his job. Knowing this, the seemingly inhuman guards become more complex too. You see someone approach and know that they will change the rest of your life right there, if you weren't unfortunate enough to encounter someone several times.
Everyone does what they need to survive. It's unfortunate when that need conflicts with someone else's.
I feel bad for the Border Guards. Seems like such a boring sad job with everyone watching you. My relative said that he visited East Germany in the 60's as part of an exchange program or something. He said that a dumb American lady went up to a guard in the tunnel that they were in to cross from west to east and asked "Why do you shoot people". The guard looked around basically said he doesn't want to, his job was miserable, how he couldn't mess up with everyone around, the guards were always rotating and never knowing whether that guard was part of the secret police. He said that they try not to kill them, shooting them in the legs but the machine guns are so inaccurate its practically impossible
Anyways my relative also said he spent most of his savings on the flight from JFK to Germany. it went from JFK -> Newfoundland -> London -> Germany all in this crampt dingy loud shaky propeller plane.
You can always miss. I didn't hear of anybody getting persecuted for not managing to shoot someone trying to escape. Some guards that did shoot people were however tried and sentenced for murder after the fall of the wall.
he was a pig!
@TrustandbelieveintheLORD2 thank you bro
I actually remember when my parents took me and my brother to see the wall. We were on vacation in west germany, and one day we went there to Berlin, just to see the wall. Several years later we saw on CNN how the wall was torn down. My father felt it was important his kids got to see it, as he had been a journalist who on several occasions had been to the Warschaupact for stories he wrote for magazines. I guess it was trips like this that instilled in me a desire to know about history, how it gets repeated, and how we rarely seem to learn from it.
Warsaw Pact*
Thanks to ze Germans, Europe and the world had been destabilized more than ever because if they can't have Lebensraum, no one can :)
I pissed on the wall.
@TrustandbelieveintheLORD2 Dude/dudette. You're not helping. You're just convincing everyone that Christians are really weird people that recite verses with no context whatsoever. TH-cam proselytizing does more harm than good. Go get to know your neighbors and hang out with people who make you really uncomfortable. (To non-believers: we're actually real people, with real problems, and we say curse words sometimes. Don't tell anyone!) If you want to emulate this edifying experience in real life, go to a coffee shop or a bar, walk over to people having a conversation, rudely interrupt them and say, "So whether you eat..." People will look really confused if they're not angry. Hi. I am from the planet Krypton and I do not know how to relate to humans.
@@kevin-parratt-artist💀
TrustandbelieveintheLORD1 was taken? Lol.
As John F Kennedy put it: “Democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
Didnt that dope also help start the Vietnam War, Ruin Cuba with sanctions causing massive hardship, Bay of Pigs etc etc ... not a guy who's opinions you'd want to rely on. Propaganda loudmouth for the US.
Tbf here in the continental US there isn’t a non democracy to run to.
who were they keeping in except the west berliners, the wall surrounded west berlin
not yet
Yes, that’s why all of the dead people that tried to cross it were West Berliners trying to enter East Berlin. /s
My grandparents had their house less than a kilometer from a small river that marked the northernmost section of the border. And there was a little pub right down at the river where my grandfather would sometimes take us to get icecream when I was 5.
That section of the border was basically a swamp, so the actual fortifications were a couple hundred meters inside East German territory, and completely hidden by the trees growing on the east bank. So it really just looked like a completely unremarkable little river maybe 15 meters across. However, my aunt says when she was playing down at the river with her friends, they sometimes saw East German soldiers patrolling the other side, and sometimes you could hear mines getting set off by deer in the distance.
It's really weird to realize later that the Iron Curtain ran just behind my grandparents backyard.
Ur grandparents must hv born 150 yrs ago atleast... Wow❤
@@RoamingDoctors ...The Wall existet until November 9th 1989
@@RoamingDoctors how did you work that out
@@RoamingDoctors East and west Germany only reunited about 35 years ago.
@@RoamingDoctorsHow did you get that? They would have been more than 100 years old when the wall was finished if that was the case. Possible, but unlikely.
Berlin has to be one of the most historically interesting cities in the world. This, the Cold War era alone is like something out of a dystopian movie. A huge city divided in ideology, economy, technology, currency and general way of life, yet the people on both sides want the wall torn down. It went from being the centre of the Nazi-regime to being a chess board where western capitalism and eastern communism competed, and the inhabitants played the part of pawns. There was no time to adapt.
Genocidals
It certainly is. Besides the centuries prior to, which are certainly interesting, too, within a hundred years Berlin went from being the imperial German capital to a wild brief period of Democracy, becoming the heart of the 3rd Reich, getting badly destroyed, divided and becoming the centre of the Cold War and then reunited into the capital of modern Germany. And you easily find remains of all of it in that amazing city. It's not a beauty like Paris, neither has it the majestic aura of London or the metropolitan vibe of New York. Berlin has a bit of everything combined with a very unique history. Grew up in that amazing city literally in the shadow of the wall on the Eastern side.
Also great techno parties as a direct result of
@@Stierenkloot Yeah the 90's and early 2000's were great and wild in Berlin. It was the cheapest metropolitan city to visit or live in, in entire Europe. Now investors took over and living cost conditions more and more equaliser with Paris, London or Munich.
Id say constantinople or antioch was a better city in terms of history.
That shot starting at 6:30 is absolutely insane, beautifully modeled. Incredibly sad what it is depicting though, and the lengths went to in order to keep people separated. Great explanation and breakdown, thank you!
Good idea for Trump's Mexico wall
@@SushmaVivek-xq4nvMAGA
The lengths that humans will go to to try to control other humans... It really is terrible.
1975 is the border I saw on the bus tour!!!
@@SushmaVivek-xq4nv well another lesson for trump is that you can try and stop it, but peoples desire for more freedom and a better life will always win no matter what
I was stationed in Berlin from 88-92 and worked in the Meddac (hospital). I took a trip to East Berlin Before the wall came down. You had to get special permission and go as a group in our Class A uniforms so there would be no confusion that we were there to do anything other than shopping and eating. I didn't buy much while there because most of the things I wanted to buy was fine China and crystalware which I couldn't store anywhere since I lived in the barracks. I was off duty for the two days when AFN (news) came on the TV saying that the wall was open. I watched in shock and confusion, then realized I had a decision to make. Was I going to say and watch it on TV and wait for the orders to come from Headquarters to stay what we could and couldn't do? One of my roomates and I decided we were leaving before official orders came down to lock us o base. One of the best decision I ever made. We left! We got to be right smack in the center of this world changing event. CheckPoint Charlie and the Brandenburg Gate (within walking distance). I got to get on top of the wall and got a few pictures (I wish a digital camera was thing then). I helped East Germans up and over the wall. I ventured where no American had been in civilian clothes, East Berlin. I stayed to celebrate all night and into the morning. I knew I couldn't go back to the barracks because they were not allowed to leave. So I stayed out, but eventually I went to my girlfriend's apartment and got some sleep. It was in the early morning hours and I didn't go far as I was scared something might happen to me. In the days and weeks after the wall opened up, I went deeper into the east with my German Girlfriend on our bikes. Trust me know I was taking part in world history and I took it all in.
Thanks for sharing, it's great hearing stories from people that got to experience it.
My guy.This is a hell of an experience.I’m jealous
I'd love to see those pictures you took, you should post them somewhere if you don't mind. Awesome story, things you'll only hear from the people that were there
Thank you for your service!
This isn't about you. No one is gonna read the fake AI story you posted.
Find a real friend.
Go outside.
Stay outside.
My mom was born and raised in the DDR (East Germany). When she was 18, she fled with a friend of her by train and had insane luck, that the guards forgot to control her. When she came to Prague, she was there with many other people who fled from the DDR. Only three months after her escape the wall fell and she was able to move to West Germany (the BRD) and go to university, where she met my father.
And as well too of course I am sure.
I saw it as an 11 year old in 1984. My dad worked as a civilian for the British Army in W. Germany and we went on a trip to Berlin. There were viewing platforms on the west side where you could look over. We also saw a checkpoint being repaired and East German soldiers guarding the workers so they wouldn’t run off. I’ll never forget it .
I was in east Germany in 1977, you forgot the glass cemented on the top of the wall. Also the bouncing Betty mine field leading to the river. With the tank traps. I was 19 and a soldier.
There's a section of the Berlin Wall in my home city, Canberra. It sits out the front of the Harmonie German club. My father and I visited it a few weeks ago and had a very solemn moment staring at this monolith that once played a part in cutting a city and more symbolically a nation in two. When my Father was watching it fall on the news in 1989 with his family it was a moment unbelievable to everyone there, like up become down in a matter of hours. Great video as always 👍
Who would've that 30 years later the Australian government would do the same thing to its own citizens?
@@allananderson949 If you are referring to COVID, the Australian government did not place any restrictions on the movement of citizens. Constitutionally the power to close borders rests with the states. They did so with the overwhelming support of the population. Most of Australia was essentially unaffected by COVID due to the border measures.
@@soulsphere9242 International borders are controlled by the federal government,
@@allananderson949You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
@@wanderschlosser1857 The borders were closed. Were you living under a rock?
Some of the eeriest consequences of the wall and division of the city were "ghost stations" on the U-Bahn (subway). Before WWII Berlin had an extensive subway system, or U-Bahn. After the wall went up the U-Bahn was divided just like the city. Some of the lines existed entirely on one side or the other. Some lines that originally spanned both sides of the city were cut in two. Trains would travel up to the newly created dead-end, then turn around and go back from where it came.
There were a few lines that served West Berlin, but crossed under a small section of East Berlin. The stations which those lines had once served in East Berlin were now closed. The street entrances were blocked off and bricked up. Barbed wire was strewn along the edge of the platform to prevent any East Germans who had somehow found their way into the station from boarding a train bound for West Berlin.
The stations were dimly lit, and the booths that had once sold tickets became guard stations. Trains would slowly pass through the station, but would not stop. As it passed by the dark empty station, West Berliner passengers would see a station frozen in time, untouched from the moment in 1961 when the wall was erected.
Absolutely fascinating, I cant imagine how spooky it would be to see a station like that
I was stationed at the US Army Garrison at Ledward Barracks in what was then Schweinfurt, West Germany. We were 20 miles (32.2 Kilometers) from the then border. I was a combat medic who was in charge of driving an M113A2 MEDEVAC vehicle. Many times did the infantry have to go to the border and take their turn. Part of that was to help East German citizens into West Germany if needed. I was at a remote location one time, providing medical support for the troops there. What you didn't mention was the mine fields and anti-vehicle ditches that were outside of populated areas. I have witnessed the attempt of 28 East German citizens make an attempt to escape to West Germany. They were in a big truck with an open area in the back. It looked similar to the US Army's 2.5-ton truck, commonly called the duece-and-a-half. Of the 28 people crammed into this truck, only 2 made it to the west side alive. The others were shot and killed by East German guards. We could do nothing unless they shot at US Troops. All we could do is watch people die. As a medic, the two who survived were the only two that actually made it the camp, although both were badly injured. I could only save those two. But so many more died not only that day but throughout the time of East & West Germany. Much of the things that went on still haunt me to this day.
I saw a documentary at a film festival in Toronto about the Wall. The section I remember most vividly was the story of a young married East German couple who discovered that they were expecting their first child. Although they both felt that they could endure life in East Germany since they had grown up there, they were deeply opposed to making their child grow up in it so they began thinking about an escape. One night, they went out to try to find a way across the border in a heavily forested area. They hadn't even reached the Wall when shots rung out; there had been NO warning shouts from the border police. The man threw his pregnant wife down onto the ground and covered her with his body but he was too late: she and the baby were already dead. He was arrested and imprisoned for several years. HE WAS ALSO BILLED FOR THE COST OF THE BULLETS USED TO KILL HIS WIFE.
Finnaly after 2 months my fav TH-camr posts
He has multiple channels, one is called Hoog
@@AKAK-rh7lrwhat are the other ones
@@AKAK-rh7lrwhat are the others man
@@m.rspinachioj2621 *soy face*
@@m.rspinachioj2621 Hoog
The western version of the wall also streched like 2 meters under ground. Making it difficult to tunnel under. The inner footing is to prevent the wall from tipping over if ran into from the outside.
I will say, I signed up to nebula so I could watch the balloon escape story, and it did not disappoint! Honestly had me on the edge of my seat and happy crying. Hopefully that’s not a spoiler!
some people escaped with paragliders
Oky I'm genuinely curious, is Nebula worth getting? A lot of the youtubers I watch have their main content over there but I just thought it was another paid subscription that they just wanted to use since YT itself has been heavily monetizing their channels.
Border guards were obliged to fire warning shots before shooting at escapees. This was also a problem when for some time a automatically shooting system was introduced.
Another nice detail to mention is that on the western side of the wall about a meter of ground was still officially East German land. So anyone decorating the wall at the time was standing on East German soil.
"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in."
- JFK
Yeap, you just make impossible to buy your way out lol
We only make walls to keep others out
Yep, and keep striving for a more perfect union.
@@shapied otherwise the infrastructure is overwhelmed and it all ends up as bad as the place they all came from
@@dmurray2978 equality is scare for those who are privileged, I know.
My West-German parents travelled to China in the late 80s and for some reason, their itinerary brought them through Berlin (and from there via Moscow to Beijing). Years later, we went on a family vacation to the unified Berlin and as we drove towards Brandenburg Gate, my mom started to cry. When she saw the Gate the last time, it had the Wall around it. It was off limits. I was still very young but I think witnessing this emotion, triggered by a past I never lived in, shaped my understanding and appreciation of our current times a lot.
I just wanted to say that aside from the incredibly elaborate and interesting videos you're making, which are super complete and well explained for even people like me who has just recently started being amazed by this huge universe built around arquitecture (specially when you explain the possibilities of the "impossible" buildings of the future), your voice transmits so much positive energy and you have a charming smile which pours on the video and at least in my case, cant help but to smile in return. Thanks for your hard work!
Thanks Neo, amazing visuals and animation as per!
Stunning and beautiful video! Your animations just keep getting better. You're the only TH-camr that has convinced me to subscribe to Nebula because your content is just that worth it for me to watch. Keep up the good work!
Ive waited so long for a new video, thank you so much neo. You are such an inspiring human. Thank you for entertaining us. (:
😂
He has multiple channels
Can you name some of them @@AKAK-rh7lr
Neo single-handedly makes Nebula worth it. There's other content on there thats amazing, but Neo's Nebula content consistently makes me feel like I've gotten my monthly subscription-worth of money.
its wild how people can advocate for soviets when they had to do all this just to keep people from leaving lol
it wasnt the soviets... the DDR (East Germany) was not part of the soviet union... it was it own country
@@StephenKershaw1the decision came from khruschev
@@mysteryman447 nope!
@@mysteryman447 it was the Ost DeutscheVolkskammer ... .nothing to do with Soviet Union
@@StephenKershaw1the peoples chamber was run by the soviets, khruschev directly suggested the wall be built in order to keep people from fleeing west, because soviet communism was that bad. you should really take the five minutes necessary to properly educate yourself on what puppet states are before you yap like an idiot although I rarely expect tankies to have much thought capacity so it's not really a big deal lol
I love every second of this sorta stuff istg
loved the video and missed your uploads so much
Very well done! I was stationed there in the early 80’s. I have memories and pictures but this puts it into perspective. Thx
Lovely. I was reading and watching a lot about the post-war period, the Berlin Wall and reunification for the last two weeks. Perfect timing. You have an excellent channel.
how do these videos keep getting better and looking better at the same time. he is too good to be true. ILY NEO keep it up
When Wim Wenders made his masterpiece Wings of Desire, he was not allowed to film with the wall in one scene, so he created a faux wall that is a hilarious take on the original.
Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk..... they filmed a bit of that near where I lived....
My Grandma which was from Germany had told me that in the later years of the wall, east German soldiers were always in groups of two during patrols. She said that if one soldier was to try and escape, the other soldier was to shoot the one escaping. It's insane how such a community very similar can be divided by ideals and then forced to be divided by strict measures with the wall.
It's true that patrols went in pairs and they made sure that those pairs were permanently remixed to avoid friendly conspiracies among them. Yes, it was meant that one comrade stops the other from fleeing. In reality it often meant the fleeing one shot his comrade first to have a safer run, happened multiple times.
6:30 That consistent shot with the combination of ambient music and audio effects are so well done. Very dramatic.
I love these videos! They are just so entertaining!
This wall was completely insane. And the thinking behind this wall is working until today in Russia.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!“ Reagan said. They built this wall anew.
Russia has never changed.
Reagan had nothing to do with it..... just political theatre for the gullible west....
jesus christ... get some brains
Dude, epic work! Thanks or sharing, much appreciated!
Great animations and video as always!
Thanks for sharing - - this is a great video. 🙂👍🏼👍🏼
Grew up in the outskirt of Berlin in East Germany in the 80s. You have to remember you came only really close to the wall in inner Berlin. Already in the outskirt you did not even come close to the wall from the eastern side because it was considered Military Area 1-2km in front of the wall. So you needed special Permits to go further.
i love your vids, there so detailed and have cool animations
Hats off to your wonderful work. The animation and story telling is incredible. Wow! I will definitely re-watch this video after some time.
My mom actually has a decent sized piece of the wall. Quite a historical souvenir if I do say so myself.
amazing graphics
Great video as always, also the pronunciation of "Stalinallee" was absolutely perfect 👍
What a great video. I was always curious as to how it worked.
my grandparents were in west germany on a business trip when the wall fell, my grandfather brought back a few pieces of the wall and I have one of them on my desk, my father and grandfather have the other two
Damn, lucky! My dad was visiting the Netherlands from then Soviet-occupied Lithuania (his first time to the West) when it fell and had to pass through Berlin to get back - people were selling pieces but they were too expensive for him :p
I was born when Germany united again. As a child I was playing on the “dead strip” in the outer parts of West Berlin which is close to the forest. I wasn’t allowed to play everywhere because there could still be explosive mines.
This is a great video on the wall. I've seen several and this is probably the best at fully describing it in detail and visually.
Content is of extreme quality brother. keep at it!
It would be nice to include a timeline of how they decided to build a wall. What was the final straw.
I walked across at Check Point Charlie in 1967. I also broke off a piece of the wall that same year
Great content, enjoyed watching and learning more about the wall.
Have seen it in Berlin, but mustn't of understood at the time the lengths the East went to by 1975. Absolutely mad.
Awesome video! You are so underrated, I don’t know why more people watch!
That JFK quote always hits hard
"I know Democracy isn't perfect but we never have to build a wall to keep our people in"
The wall only came about because the West refused to give up West-Berlin. It was a compromise the Soviets reluctantly agreed to
Bad Quote, doesn't make sense. Also the US was never and still is not, A Democracy.
Never had to build a wall but Democracy “had” to kill hundreds of thousands of natives, “had” to then evict all people who lived here before the whites and put them in their own communities, “had” to do all that and still believe you’re going to the great heavens above because you spent you’re whole life believing in god what a pathetic never ending cycle of pure ignorance
But we do build walls to keep the oppressed out, who are required to sustain the lifestyle of the rich countries. Its hard to see the current system as the final system of humanity.
The Berlin Wall and Inner German Border of the Iron Curtain were the most militarized borders during the Cold War.
And now it's the border between the two Korea's.
Very impressive. The video was excellent too.
These are the type of informative videos that we need !
i thought it was just a wall😭💀
same
How tf do you go through the education system and not know that it's mlre than a wall
@@nathanjywtf
@@leobe2104the professor's here
Me too
I visited Berlin in October 1989. Just behind the Reichstag building in front of the Wall were a row of crosses with people's names on them and dates.
It was a shock to see that the most recent were from February and March 1989.
That is when I realised just how seriously the East German government took the Wall, and howfeadly it was.
It also explained when I saw the banner newspaper headlines exactly one late"Berlin Wall Down" I did not understand what the story meant.
This is an amazing video great job
Great video that explains the situation in a really succinct way. TY.
It's easy to forget the human impact of such historical events as the Berlin Wall. This evocation of the brutal separation it caused is truly heartbreaking. Took away much more than roads and jobs, it took away relationships and loved ones.
nice npc bot style comment 😳
Lol you're obviously using ChatGPT for this comment, am I right?
Not a Border wall but a Prison wall. East was the Prison.
Wrong.
@@juehjuhow is that wrong ?
It is go to Palestine all this evil implemented in Palestine seggregation wall
I remember in black ops 1, they released a DLC map that took place at the Berlin Wall. I was always so shocked to see that it was actually real at one point. The developers even added a small detail where you couldn’t walk in the dead zone or else the tower guards would shoot you instantly
Thanks neo for the amazing animation style
I don’t remember paying for TH-cam Premium 👏
anyone know how to animate and create banger videos like neo?
For anyone that is interested in knowing more about the Balloon escape, there is a great movie about it called "Ballon". But no stealing watchers from his video about it, never watched it before but will definetly in the future! Amazing vid!
My grandmother and her sister were orphans in East Germany after WW2 and were adopted into different families at a young age before the wall was built. The family of my grandmother fled to the West, while her sister stayed. They didn't see each other for a long time.
Today they regularly visit each other.
It's just crazy to imagine being torn apart like that.
A major part of my wife's family were trapped behind the Wall. We could send letters but had no in-person contact for decades.
Bold title for a wall which didn't work
Like the border
@Nalololol yet you have a door and windows on your house 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
It worked 👍🏼
It did work. What are you talking about?
@@flost8202 You are quite right. That other comment was just way off the mark. Probably some twit kid.
The classic adage "The Berlin wall was meant to keep the East Germans in, not keep the West Germans out".
Also, the Berlin Airlift was such a flex.
The fact that all those barbed wire fences and tank traps are on the side of East Berlin makes it pretty obvious what the intention was
The Berlin Airlift is probably one of the most impressive logistical feats ever accomplished by humanity. I wonder what it would look like today, with modern airplanes.
Berlin Airlift was a propaganda stunt as West Berliners could just cross into East Berlin for supplies. This was true after a few days, and In fact the Soviet Army in West Berlin opened up their food warehouses to the West Berliners.
@@speckkatze It wasn't impressive since it was just a propaganda stunt, Wester Berliners could just cross into East Berlin and get food and supplies. Plus the Soviet Army in West Berlin had warehouses of food and supplies readily available.
@@Rustycaddy17 Thats just as wrong as it gets. First of all, the Blockade started as a result of the Allied forces introducing the west German currency in west Berlin, which the soviets didnt like - so no, they would not be able to use said currency in east Berlin.
Even if the Deutsche Mark would be accepted in East Berlin, one of the first changes made by the soviets was to regulate all traffic between east and west Berlin, in either direction.
The Soviets also didnt not supply Berlin anymore, let alone have warehouses in West Berlin - there were warehouses there with supplies for around a month, but they were all under Allied control. The soviets also stopped supplying power and all other types of resources to west Berlin.
The goal of the entire blockade was to lay siege to west Berlin, hoping that the western forces would not be able to supply it, enabling the soviets to annex it. Neither side thought it would be possible to fly in all supplies for many months, until the US, Britain and France did it. It is very much one of the most impresive logistical feats ever completed.
The escape stories are amazing
YAYYYY NEW VID AND AWESOME TOPIC
9:12 lol
Berlin wall did not separate two counties, it surrounded a city, so my question is, how the actual border looked like, one 170km to the west of Berlin?
the soviets placed the iron curtain there, you can look op pictures of that too, its basically a very large iron fence stretching from east germany to bulgaria
You can still see where the Berlin wall was from space today, East and West used different coloured street lights which you can easily see the difference between at night
The john deer tracor casually plowing the middle of the wall took me by surprise and made me laugh
With the expense of the wall they could've built something to improve lives...
I can’t wait for the Air Force 1 episode
That shoe is my favorite
Meh. An old plane
the pact this showed up when i am learning about the berlin wall in school is wild
yesssss, neo finally posted
Babe wake up Neo posted.
Fun fact: This is the world that Putin laments when he dreams of 'reuniting' the Soviet Union...
Great video, super interesting!
Very informative. Thank you...
How the Berlin wall worked...until it didn't.
Yep. That how past tense words work
@@DrMario_666 it’d be hard to title it “how the Berlin Wall works”, in a historical documentary for sure
Wrong. It did work, but Gorbachev ordered it to take it down; poor leadership, not the wall.
Great video on walls Neo! Now that you covered the one that was in Berlin, cover the one that is in the West Bank 🍉🍉🍉
Yes cover how apartheid works in Palestine 🍉🍉🍉
I’m glad they built that wall. It’s working well!
I touched a piece of the Berlin wall. There's a large section of the wall at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, GA. It's an amazing museum and would take more than one day to take it all in.
My OCD hates you for constantly putting East on the left!
I looked for that comment, same
Thank you, it bothered me too🤣
Fun fact: You don't actually have it until you call it CDO.
Mine also!
Well, the west is just on the left for the sake of it. There's no actual correlation between North South East and West vs Up Down Right Left
a bit anti climatic ending :/
I love your videos!
Cool! Thanks! I didn't know anything about this
Yet people still advocate for Socialism... 🤦🏼♀️
At 8:45 he says "they wanted to decrease the prison camp feeling of the previous wall"...
Thats exactly what it was. A giant prison camp 😳🤦🏼♀️😞
The perils of clinging too stubbornly to ideology. If your own citizens want to escape, you know you’re wrong. But if you don’t admit it, you start trapping them in against their will because you can’t admit that your ideology is faulty
Yeah. The USA have a similar issue
@@MaticTheProto
Care to share your delusions?
@@joplin8433 So what's the purpose of the big wall Trump built? you know the same president who's being judged in courts? what a shitshow USA has become XD
@@MaticTheProto Nobody is trapping me from leaving the US. I won’t be shot or maimed by spike traps for trying to leave. Hell, you won’t even be shot for illegally crossing into our border nowadays. 1000’s of foreign grapists and criminals do it everyday.
@@joplin8433no, they'd rather just post political sentence fragments behind their internet anonymity for a little bit of dopamine.
I was stationed there in the Army from 1977-1980. I was 17 when I got there, and I remember the first time I went on "Wall Patrol" like it was yesterday. It was a sobering experience. We were also allowed to go to East Berlin on something called an "East Pass" that you got from your S-2. The first time I went was an eye-opening experience as well.
WE NEEDED THIS 🗣🗣🔥🔥💯💯💯💯
ya lublu mamu glenta