Ten Top WW2 & Cold War Historical Sites of Berlin
This Video tours present day Berlin, Germany looking at ten of the city's most significant historical sites of the 20th Century. This isn't a quick 'top 10' list' style video, at each site I will stop explain its history and how the site is today. The theme of our tour is World War 2 and The Cold War from the mid 1930s to 1990. This is all history that is both in living memory, and history that has directly affected us all to this day. Highlights include the exact location of the The Führerbunker (Adolf Hitler's Command Post and place of his suicide on 30/04/1945, a place made famous by the Movie "Downfall" (2004), we will also visit and ascend the Berliner Fernsehturm (Berlin TV Tower) the communist East Germany's engineering triumph and Berli's iconic tallest building. This video will appeal to you if you are intending to visit Berlin, or if you simply want to brush up on your 20th century history. CHAPTERS: THE TEN SITES 00:50 1. The Brandenburg Gate 04:24 2. The Führerbunker (The site of Adolf Hitler's Command Post) 09:51 3. Karl Marx Allee (East Berlin's Soviet Style Boulevard) 12:23 4. Alexanderplatz (East Berlin's "Times Square") 15:18 5. The Fernsehturm (Berlin's former communist TV Tower) 18:13 6. The Reichstag (Germany's Historic Parliament Building) 21:00 7. The Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße 24:16 8. The Soviet War Memorial, Tiergarten 26:30 9. Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Holocaust Museum) 29:05 10. Allied Checkpoint Charlie (East and West Berlin border post) #berlin #ww2 #coldwar #architecture
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