*I visited Berlin in 1994 and our tour guide told us this joke - "many ex Stasi agents are now taxi drivers. This is good, because all you have to do is to tell them your name and they already know where you live"*
At 31:48, when she showed the inside of the storage hall and mentioned there was a secret entrance, I kept thinking, 'No way, that can't be real...' I imagined the entrance would just be behind a wall or a cabinet, and we'd have to open it manually by pushing it or something. But when she pressed a button in the corner, I got goosebump, that entrance was both surprising and amazing
These bunker videos re mixing. I really appreciate watching them having spent time In an office in a bunker in the American sector of the occupied city of West Berlin in 1987.
I visited nearly all bunkers on GDR territory. There are much more an even bigger command posts. One time I was really afraid - there was a 600 meter tunnel and on tje left and right intersections into smaller two floor bunkers. At the end I found an exit but I couldnt find the car. Unbelieveable expensive underground installation - this was south if Berlin.
As an American, I have several comments. DW puts out another great documentary. This was fascinating. Next JFK would be furious after that whole Cuban missle thing. Also, I am impressed with the engineering that went into these bunkers, and that they were secret for so long. Lastly, I always find it interesting that the USSR was supposed to be a classless society but they had fancy toilets and beds for the leaders. If I were a leader under all the pressure, I'd want a nice toilet to sit on a think too. 🤔
Thank you DW for such an excellent and informative documentary! Having a long time interest in post war history of DDR, Machern was one site I never saw as it was closed when I was at Leipzig.
Same for me. I lived in Leipzig too between 92/94. Tks for infos in this doku. What I noticed is the "selective protection" for high-us of the regime... Their obsession of preserving surveillance of potential opponents after nuclear collapse... Sounds so absurd ! And the insanity of such delusional protection. How long woulda they survive?! Same debate today with idiotic people whotrully believe they could survive such a kind of total war.... With supplies in a bunker for 6 months... A year for a few people. When yu study their shelter technically lot of "holes in the tennis racket" appears... Which will condemn them to a postponed death... That's all !!! Same as for those stasi members indeed. Last point is about the prices of such bullshits.... Buildings these bunker sites cost a lot... And was useless. Lucky were we.! But it cost.
Such amazing documentaries. DW is the best. I found a few boring I wouldn't lie but is not like they were boring, they were very german and specific and slow pacing, some people talking in long sequences. I enjoy all of them though! Very informative and I always learn new thing I didn't know at all or partially.
It was mostly nuclear artillery ammunition and some medium ranged rocket driven nuclear ammunition. And i guarded one of the sites as a young East-German conscripted officer, together with my platoon. So yes, there was nuclear ammunition 100%. But the same storage sites could be found in the West. It just works that way on both sides.
I remember the one you did on tunnels in eastern europe cities last year (?) and this is better. A good day as I've learnt something new, never too old!! Sorry, just a suggestion - tone down the techno over intrusive background music, let us concentrate on what's being said, the most important part.
The short-range nuclear-capable missiles that were stored in East Germany were more than likely intended to deliver tactical nuclear weapons, as opposed to those that could destroy entire cities. The purpose behind these tactical nuclear weapons was twofold. First, to provide tactical support as Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Western Europe. Second, to prevent or halt any successful NATO counteroffensives.
At 39:42....an antenna socket in the bunker to "watch tv" AFTER a nuclear war? Ok. And what exactly did they think was gonna be on? Cartoons? SNL? Amazing stuff.
The "leftovers" - my uncle told me he remembers the boom from the weekly planned detotation of such leftovers at a former depot in Northern Germany. He is born in the early fifties. Even today there are certain areas there where the soil can be burned because it still contains enough TNT.
Thank you,,for this great documentary,,After this please do about east german prison,For those suspected of being enemies of the country, thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
37:30 at least the Olympic cyclists would have had a place there. Amazing. This is one of the most interesting cold-war bunker videos. No cool BS nonsense, just facts from people who appear to know what they're talking about
Oh, how charming! The Soviet occupation of East Germany is a distant memory from over 35 years ago, yet US troops have been “enjoying” their extended stay in Germany for nearly 80 years. But don’t worry-channels like DW seem to have conveniently misplaced that little detail, probably thanks to their generous American sponsors. It’s amazing how selective memory works when there’s funding involved!
Yeah, the famous US dictatorship and stasi jailhouses... And walls against escape... Oh wait, that was east germany, and the people protested to join the west
I am from eastern europe I use to play as kid in those bunkers in 80 s , the most amazing thing is after 30 minutes we was capable te see little better in dark and after few games we was able to run in dark, I remember like today , we had plan for civilians we had training in case of war , but here in west?????
I wonder how the government's would have operated when nuclear war was in full swing. Doubt that any of the re-war government's would have survived or continuing to be revaland in the post- war world with full on collaps underway out side thoes bunker and chances that most of those government official would have madet to the bunkers in time is questionable at best.
if they happened to get to the bunkers and survived they would have come out to rule over a dying wasteland. only to die themselves some time later due to lack of food and water. As full out nuclear war would have pretty much killed everything off in the northern hemisphere if not the entire planet.
@@Dratchev241 well yes it could be total wipe out but nukes radioactive will halve rapidly and some rural towns will be effect less than the city's so wodent they survive better. They will have shorter lives but will make to their fortis probably more than enough time to get the next generation of the ground.
I n east Germany was only tactical nukes, Srategic was from Ussr or kalingrad, tactical are mobile because are 1 kiloton each like munitions , what we learn in army . but today the world is crazy they thing the life is like in movie , we lost some values and principles , I dont know how we be the another generation .
A wonderful historical coverage documentary about GDR leftover bonkers designed during Cold War years...documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel...Maybe the US, Britain, French having such bunkers for highly ranking peoples civilians and militarily highly ranking not for all citizens .
Seems GDR and the Soviet union were extremely prepared for war and US kept acting like they would have crashed them and that's why the war never happened after the end of WWii
What profit a man to gain The whole World But loose His own soul ? In a World with many words there many books And much study brings Weariness to the flesh.
5:25 Based. Now let's talk about the West's current Bunkers. I love how the pro West/anti East propaganda is peppered throughout the whole video... 9:27 only shows the East bunkers. 22:42 how much is 120 million east German marks in todays money? it just says huge sums of money, well, how much is it in 2024 dollars?(it would be 10s of billions of dollars(correct me if I'm wrong)) 29:29 "Every sack of cement that went into military projects... was missing in housing and industrial construction" as if the West and America and others don't suffer the same fate... USSR literally had no reason to dissolve, I suspect something else is afoot, like a longer plan game, to infiltrate the west via western born sleepers... and we see the same policies as back then in todays world enacted by so called defenders of Democracy
C'mon... A well established state like to current Federal Republic of Germany would not know if there were remains of nuclear weapons in old bunkers but the very curious green coat man is the one that can find it. Pathetic documentary.
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*I visited Berlin in 1994 and our tour guide told us this joke - "many ex Stasi agents are now taxi drivers. This is good, because all you have to do is to tell them your name and they already know where you live"*
lol well said , i am gonna steal it 😂🤣🤣
that's a fact after all
🙂👍
At 31:48, when she showed the inside of the storage hall and mentioned there was a secret entrance, I kept thinking, 'No way, that can't be real...' I imagined the entrance would just be behind a wall or a cabinet, and we'd have to open it manually by pushing it or something. But when she pressed a button in the corner, I got goosebump, that entrance was both surprising and amazing
well you could see it on the floor. hard to miss.
34:24
@@geronimo5537 That is why he only developed one Goosebump.
These bunker videos re mixing. I really appreciate watching them having spent time In an office in a bunker in the American sector of the occupied city of West Berlin in 1987.
Should say “are amazing” the screen on the iPhone is getting old and touchy.
Old ammunition doesn’t just explode, lady. And even if it is volatile, it can be properly disposed of.
Почему то при этом до сих пор не показываются бункеры западной Германии
Never came out of service.
Nothing much to see. Smoke mirrors and false narratives.
Maybe that is because it is a documentation on EAST Germany? 😅
All russians are guilty.
I visited nearly all bunkers on GDR territory. There are much more an even bigger command posts. One time I was really afraid - there was a 600 meter tunnel and on tje left and right intersections into smaller two floor bunkers. At the end I found an exit but I couldnt find the car. Unbelieveable expensive underground installation - this was south if Berlin.
DW tell your sound mixer to use side chain compression in the music. Difficult to follow the dialogue while the music plays.
Difficult to follow the Dialogue
THEN DONT WATCH IT
@@charlestorruella8591 Thanks for your advice. That's what I did, as well as many others.
@@charlestorruella8591 If we say nothing, nothing changes
Had no appreciation for just how militarized the region of East Germany truly was. Staggering.
West German too and I'm not surprised they are on the Frontline during cold war
and look at germany now not even close to were east germany was
My grandparents' house in Tokyo had an underground bunker in the yard. They built it during the Pacific War. They kept family treasures in there.
As an American, I have several comments. DW puts out another great documentary. This was fascinating. Next JFK would be furious after that whole Cuban missle thing. Also, I am impressed with the engineering that went into these bunkers, and that they were secret for so long. Lastly, I always find it interesting that the USSR was supposed to be a classless society but they had fancy toilets and beds for the leaders. If I were a leader under all the pressure, I'd want a nice toilet to sit on a think too. 🤔
Some of these places might make good wine stores. Also useful during any genuine emergency.
Thank you DW for such an excellent and informative documentary! Having a long time interest in post war history of DDR, Machern was one site I never saw as it was closed when I was at Leipzig.
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Same for me. I lived in Leipzig too between 92/94. Tks for infos in this doku. What I noticed is the "selective protection" for high-us of the regime... Their obsession of preserving surveillance of potential opponents after nuclear collapse... Sounds so absurd ! And the insanity of such delusional protection. How long woulda they survive?! Same debate today with idiotic people whotrully believe they could survive such a kind of total war.... With supplies in a bunker for 6 months... A year for a few people. When yu study their shelter technically lot of "holes in the tennis racket" appears... Which will condemn them to a postponed death... That's all !!! Same as for those stasi members indeed.
Last point is about the prices of such bullshits.... Buildings these bunker sites cost a lot... And was useless. Lucky were we.! But it cost.
Such amazing documentaries. DW is the best. I found a few boring I wouldn't lie but is not like they were boring, they were very german and specific and slow pacing, some people talking in long sequences. I enjoy all of them though! Very informative and I always learn new thing I didn't know at all or partially.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
This I missed. Even with notifications on some DW documentaries don't come to my feed right away. Very interesting.
Excellent video!
While I wouldn't be surprised that nuclear weapons were stationed in East Germany, the evidence as presented in this video are flimsy at best.
It was mostly nuclear artillery ammunition and some medium ranged rocket driven nuclear ammunition. And i guarded one of the sites as a young East-German conscripted officer, together with my platoon. So yes, there was nuclear ammunition 100%. But the same storage sites could be found in the West. It just works that way on both sides.
Do a documentary about numbers stations in Germany
good that they are still there we might need them preety soon
A great documentary! Thank you!
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Amazing,interesting & informative documentary by DW❤.I just love watching historical documentaries regarding WW2 & cold war.Keep it up 👍.
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Amazing Documentary
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I remember the one you did on tunnels in eastern europe cities last year (?) and this is better. A good day as I've learnt something new, never too old!! Sorry, just a suggestion - tone down the techno over intrusive background music, let us concentrate on what's being said, the most important part.
The short-range nuclear-capable missiles that were stored in East Germany were more than likely intended to deliver tactical nuclear weapons, as opposed to those that could destroy entire cities.
The purpose behind these tactical nuclear weapons was twofold. First, to provide tactical support as Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Western Europe. Second, to prevent or halt any successful NATO counteroffensives.
At 39:42....an antenna socket in the bunker to "watch tv" AFTER a nuclear war? Ok. And what exactly did they think was gonna be on? Cartoons? SNL? Amazing stuff.
Nice documentary thank you Sweethearts
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What would be in that bunker thats so top sercret after all these years.
The "leftovers" - my uncle told me he remembers the boom from the weekly planned detotation of such leftovers at a former depot in Northern Germany. He is born in the early fifties. Even today there are certain areas there where the soil can be burned because it still contains enough TNT.
Very informative documentary, but you could have lightened up on the musical background track.
What an amazing documentary 👏👏👏
Thank u dw
I hope media in our country do the same
Mind blowing/ informative documentary, thank you DW ❤❤🎉🎉
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I am lucky that ; DW exists in my Generation
Keep it up
Thank you,,for this great documentary,,After this please do about east german prison,For those suspected of being enemies of the country, thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fascinating. . Thank you.
Cool, scary and interesting!
On a red floor
With some white lines
Deep in the bunkerrr
🎶🎵
Is that from hitler in his bunker video 😂
Due to the current war in Ukraine, I wonder how many that were not opened to the public have been reactivated and updated.
1:31
Was allready build by Adi's men.
Urbex TH-camrs are taking notes .....
37:30 at least the Olympic cyclists would have had a place there. Amazing. This is one of the most interesting cold-war bunker videos. No cool BS nonsense, just facts from people who appear to know what they're talking about
Protect forests from nuclear dangers
Goood studie
3:55 Solid roofing. 🧱⬆
Germans are Smart 💯
8:01 wow! Almost like in UK nowadays!!!
Why are only certain people allowed their
It’s probably because “they” made laws……😂
in the fallout series the vast majority of the population does not get a place in the 'Vaults'.
Hello bunkers
nice data center stroge side
2:04 like sound of bunker..in GTA V
What was up with that guy's ear? The one who found the painted lines.
probably martial arts
It can be use back to put sensitive R&D department and other things...🥸
Germany is dropping the ball. Why have these bunkers not been sent to Ukraine? Nobody is using them. It will actually cost money to dispose of them.
IQ 🧠? Such a waste !!
Is this a serious question?
You're joking right...?
If it is sarcasm, it’s very subtle….
@@tdtvegas Totally joking
😂😂
A missile named Tochka!, not to be confused with Vukoshna i Tochka (The new Russian name, Tasty period, for Mc Donalds)
Why is old ammunition “hanging around”? 😂
Oh, how charming! The Soviet occupation of East Germany is a distant memory from over 35 years ago, yet US troops have been “enjoying” their extended stay in Germany for nearly 80 years. But don’t worry-channels like DW seem to have conveniently misplaced that little detail, probably thanks to their generous American sponsors. It’s amazing how selective memory works when there’s funding involved!
You mad?
Russian stooge the security services will pop round for a chat
Yeah, the famous US dictatorship and stasi jailhouses... And walls against escape...
Oh wait, that was east germany, and the people protested to join the west
@@martinhawley2401 yeah mate we're everywhere 😉
I am from eastern europe I use to play as kid in those bunkers in 80 s , the most amazing thing is after 30 minutes we was capable te see little better in dark and after few games we was able to run in dark, I remember like today , we had plan for civilians we had training in case of war , but here in west?????
Why don't People Remove the Past and Build the Future. Why keep Looking Back?
Mind blowing documentary 👌 🙌 👏
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I wonder how the government's would have operated when nuclear war was in full swing.
Doubt that any of the re-war government's would have survived or continuing to be revaland in the post- war world with full on collaps underway out side thoes bunker and chances that most of those government official would have madet to the bunkers in time is questionable at best.
if they happened to get to the bunkers and survived they would have come out to rule over a dying wasteland. only to die themselves some time later due to lack of food and water. As full out nuclear war would have pretty much killed everything off in the northern hemisphere if not the entire planet.
@@Dratchev241 well yes it could be total wipe out but nukes radioactive will halve rapidly and some rural towns will be effect less than the city's so wodent they survive better.
They will have shorter lives but will make to their fortis probably more than enough time to get the next generation of the ground.
@@gamer969rivere5 watch the movie threads, that would be the life of those who are unlucky to survive the strikes
What about West German 😅Isn't there anything to see?
Damn, insane
War! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Say it again...
Omg 😲 technology
wow, KHAMAS is building tunnels in Germany???
even to this day.. nukes are just as dumb
I n east Germany was only tactical nukes, Srategic was from Ussr or kalingrad, tactical are mobile because are 1 kiloton each like munitions , what we learn in army . but today the world is crazy they thing the life is like in movie , we lost some values and principles , I dont know how we be the another generation .
Thanks for dubbing... subtitles are just so lazy
A wonderful historical coverage documentary about GDR leftover bonkers designed during Cold War years...documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel...Maybe the US, Britain, French having such bunkers for highly ranking peoples civilians and militarily highly ranking not for all citizens .
Crawl out throughout through the fall out bab.....
Something is not top secret if a film crew and some dude can go in 😂
Great film thank you
19:07 👂 😅
Not secret anymore
USSR was great!!!
When are you going to show the bunkers of west Germany, the CIA and NATO?
Those are still active baby boy
Werner Ziegler
Seems GDR and the Soviet union were extremely prepared for war and US kept acting like they would have crashed them and that's why the war never happened after the end of WWii
Why don't you explore American military installations during ww2.
😅 Ask Mr.Putin.
😮
7:25🥲
What is GDR? 😂
What profit a man to gain
The whole World
But loose His own soul ?
In a World with many words
there many books
And much study brings
Weariness to the flesh.
5:25 Based. Now let's talk about the West's current Bunkers. I love how the pro West/anti East propaganda is peppered throughout the whole video... 9:27 only shows the East bunkers. 22:42 how much is 120 million east German marks in todays money? it just says huge sums of money, well, how much is it in 2024 dollars?(it would be 10s of billions of dollars(correct me if I'm wrong)) 29:29 "Every sack of cement that went into military projects... was missing in housing and industrial construction" as if the West and America and others don't suffer the same fate... USSR literally had no reason to dissolve, I suspect something else is afoot, like a longer plan game, to infiltrate the west via western born sleepers... and we see the same policies as back then in todays world enacted by so called defenders of Democracy
The narrator and whoever wrote the script was obviously ginned up on bravado.
FALLOUT LORE nothing new :P
Death will get you anywhere anytime this is just an illusion 😅😅😅
Control is always an illusion
In our lost past we used to have technology to create underground cities but then they made it against the law
weird comment 🤣
Atlantis was underwater
I didn't know there was a "no cities underground" law
Who is “they”? And can you elaborate on the technology and cities.
Hahahaha no
Is Germany going to need those?
🤔
The narrator saying “SHtazi” is so annoying. There is no H in the word STAZI.
That’s how an “s” preceding a consonant is pronounced in German (even though normally a “ch” would follow an “s” to create the English “sh” sound).
Hope you feel smart after your comment..
🇺🇸🇺🇦❤🤍💙💛🌹🇮🇱🤍💙
The wrong side won sadly.
The man in the high castle
agreed
I guess you would still want them to be slaves of Communism. There is only the righteous side and the side of the wicked and evil.
jsno
in every line there is some low-grade propaganda ...Come on ... Germany is dying
C'mon... A well established state like to current Federal Republic of Germany would not know if there were remains of nuclear weapons in old bunkers but the very curious green coat man is the one that can find it. Pathetic documentary.
Know German government ignoring nuclear treat show this to them first....
Be afraid, be very afraid.
I guess my government doesn't even know there's a threat.
They actually as good as never mention Russia/Ukraine war.
More episodes of the insane nazi and communist idiologies - worlds of pure horror
Free Palestine from Israel
Dont attack Israel? What did anyone think would happen? Put peace first and foremost. This is a good video
Live in peace.
Free Israel from Palestine
wrong video moohamed
Build bunkers
Freee Palestine so they don’t have to live underground
Free from what?
I agree, put on a uniform and stop hiding behind civilians 🇮🇱💪
Bro this is about Germany not Palestine shut up
You go and free palestine yourself
India stand with Israel 🇮🇱
no such thing anymore tech is king,
Hey i have a strange idea!! PEACE ✌️
Soviet rassians are a real genius
Amazing documentary
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