Some primarily railway related views filmed in Berlin a few months after the wall had been opened but when the city was still divided. The film includes the following:- i)Several views of the Berlin wall, watch towers, etc as seen from S-Bahn trains. ii) Platform views taken at Gesundbrunnen, Friedrichstr. and Zoo stations. iii) The duty free ‘Intershop’ shops for West Berlin passengers changing between trains at Friedrichstr, which was wholly in East Berlin. iv) Several rides (S-Bahn and U-Bahn) on West Berlin trains through closed stations in the Eastern controlled part of Berlin. v) A DDR (former East Germany) map of the U & S Bahn in what the Eastern authorities called ‘Westberlin’. By way of explanation of the important issues this film is subtitled. Video taken in April 1990, still images taken in December 1989. More information and pictures about the Berlin Wall can be found here: en.wikipedia.org
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East / West Berlin Contrasts, April 1990. (2)25 comments to East / West Berlin Contrasts, April 1990. (2) |
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Thanks for posting these!
Extremely valuable historic documents of an era now vanished forever.
wollankstrasse meine heimat
YOU ‘granskare’ yes i do agree with you…Thanks…jzpatelut…..
nice 2 videos…good to make this record of the recent times…
This video shows exactly the bizzare separation of East and West Berlin. West Berliners taking the S or U-Bahn to Friedrichstrasse to cross the border or just to transfer into a different train. While there buying some cigarettes or booze at the Intershop. East Berliners having to watch the trains going to the West Sectors moving right through their city, without being able to board it themselves. I’ve taken these trains many times myself.
@glenn6912 ok, thank you.
The U-Bahn runs through a part what used to be East Berlin. From West Berlin, through East Berlin, to northeastern West Berlin.
This station had 3 platforms (two for the western Berlin trains and one for the eastern Berlin trains). They built up this steel wall between the East/West tracks, so nobody could run or even look to the other side.
I’m cuban and like you all know we still have communism in Cuba.
In Cuba most of the people don’t know that Berlin was divided into two halves thanks to the stupidities communist countries make.
I found this video unbelievably telling but I’d like for someone to explain to me better how the eastern and western berliners were divided by the “steel wall” is mentioned in the piece.
Thank you very much and pray for us so we can get rid of communism soon.
east and west.
All the train stations shown in the movie are situated in or accessable only from West-Berlin, but the S-Bahn stations in West-Berlin were maintained and the train service itself was run by the East-German railway company due to allied law. Therefore they all look as run down as in East-Berlin or even worster because most people in West Berlin avoided the use of the East German S-Bahn trains in order not to finance with their fare the Eastern regime. Less fare, less money for maintainance.
Sorry, u.u i have a question, U-Bahn is in the West Berlin, isnt it?
wait is this east germany or west germany? I am confused because the west berlin stations look more run down
Back in Dec 2001, a lady here in New Orleans was taking pics of the sunset in Lake Pontchartrain while travelling north on the Causeway bridge. A police stopped her, confiscated her camera and told her she cannot take ANY photos of of from the bridge because of the “Patriot Act” Google it. You’ll be amazed.
I have never heard of this law. As an amateur photographer I have photographed many bridges in recent years, as well as objects viewed from a bridge, and I have never once been questioned by police. I have never seen police or guards on any road or railway bridge (as they were in the DDR), but only on very large dams such as Shasta Dam in California. They do not prohibit photography there. In fact, they sell postcards of it.
Audinos, the “Patriot Act”(s) has put in place the mechanisms to bring forth into reality the very dire totalitarian situation you described! Right after the first one was passed, it became virtually illegal to take pictures of a bridge, or even of a sunset FROM a bridge!
To the people who gave him negative remarks: he’s right, you know. In America, people serve the government and the government, the corporations. THAT is why the US is the Evil Empire!
Ich war letzte Woche in Berlin & es sieht alles noch so aus wie vor 10 Jahren. Berlin ist eine Kaputte Stadt.
jajaja und in der DDR hymne heisst es “der zukunft zugewandt”
So gehts mir mit dem gesamten ost-teil von Berlin heute. Alles sieht überall gleich aus. Und damit meine ich Gleichheit im negativen Sinne. Das fängt ja schon mit unseren Bahnhöfen an. Auf der Linie U5 erkenne ich keinen einzigen Bahnhof mehr wieder.
und die häuser sehn auch noch heute so scheisse aus.. teilweise.
Alles zum greifen nah und doch so fern…
Mein Gott, wie vergammelt das alles damals ausgesehen hat…
Makes me realise that the Evil Empire that the disgusting gangster Reagan and Bush described was none other than the United States.
PEACE, BREAD AND LAND!!!!
Gorbachov and reagan decided to work together, realising that when faced with an ‘outside’ force we earth-born humans must act as one.
What they did not reckon on is that what they saw as outsiders would come in peace through the mother’s womb, with a desire to birth a new understanding of what it means to be human so that mankind would be able to put aside cultural differences and live together as one people.