A recreate the area the uk thats takes us to this weeks topic and to the starting point of my tour. Ill be following the berlin wall trail right through the heart of the city. Today i ride along before my border between east and west berlin on this bike following the line of the berlin wall i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of the Europe Germany and berlin so im starting here in moa park going to the Brandenburg Gate and then all the way to the east side gallery lets go. Well find out what became of the wall and why pieces of it are Still Standing. Our weekly viewers video spirits you off to norway. Plus a check in fact takes us around the sights of his hometown sent francisco. My 1st stop on the berlin wall trail is the memorial site on bet i watched awesome its the 1st stop for anybody wanting to learn more about the citys division rust colored golds in sections of the wall mark the location of the former border. Here the section of the wall has been reconstructed as it was during the division. The viewing platform provides the best view of the border fortifications true dimensions this is how they appeared up to 989 the main wall and inner walls with the death strip in between. In order to help us understand the impact the war had on the city and of course on berliners people who experienced it firsthand often tell their stories here at the berlin wall memorial its exciting and you can learn a lot about how people cope with adversity. These 4 children from berlin spanker district no the wall is little more than a rusty artifact of the bible in tennis. Elko rosen remembers it as part of the world she grew up and as part of her street she lived at bear now mistrusts 11 just above street level. Oka rosen was 16 when the border cut through a street and her life how can she communicate this experience rosen leads the kids along a street that bears no resemblance to the burner strasser of her childhood. By others this was all east berlin and the street over there on the other side of those bonds was west berlin yet our building stood here now just imagine when we leaned out the window our low bodies were in east berlin and her body is in west berlin. The construction of the wall in august 13th 961 put an end to that situation for not right away 4 days later the streets leading from east to west had been blocked but the front door to burn our strasser 11 was still open. One day had lunch our parents said all right when youre done in a single take a few belongings and today were going to flee. Were leaving east berlin. Oh look theres our escape thats my mother running a camera man happened to film the family as they fled. We were able to leave by the door and my father handed baggage out because we wanted to take a few things. In my look there i am my sister my mother and my father. And just imagine i even took my bird along and its cage. I couldnt leave it behind i think it was the only bear that fled to the west. Was little more than a walk across the street participants of the events like rosen are living proof of what happened here at the void city. The building on Burnell Strasser was bricktop. Worn down and eventually replaced by the actual pearl and what the city remain divided for 28 years. If i were pulled in now i wouldnt think it was so nice. Id be very very curious about whats behind the wall what it would look like and how it would be if i were allowed to cross it off. Thank you but i wont even wall in my worst enemy because he wont have much room to move around. Some of my. Business and all i know is that im a mix of east and west one parents from the west and the others from the east but i dont know which ones from where. Last year over a 1000000 people visited the berlin wall memorial on the last lawsuit it includes this Documentation Center historian balgo short me around the permanent exhibition. We display historical objects here that are important because they allow for an immediate experience especially for visitors who dont know much about it who dont know the details about the berlin wall. Only taken ive been here i see pieces of homemade diving equipment that who about horror by and used to escape in 963. The north part. But why did the berlin wall exist why did they put up a wall through city as a matter of compacts a very complicated question but if you want the short answer id have to say that it became clear after the founding of east and west germany in 949 that 2 different political systems would become established. And then theyd have a situation of mass exodus. There were many people who wanted to escape east germany in the 1950 s. And it culminated in the building of the wall. It was a consequence of this exodus how i know these are. The how did the wall stand for so long. Also because it was a manifestation of an entire system. East germany was integrated into the system of eastern bloc states and so it was dependent on developments there. Not until the 980 s. Was the development such that a little bit of an opening was possible one would hope i miss him. But of course it was the east german citizens who took the decisive steps towards toppling the wall here. How do you teach such a complex subject to someone who has no connection with berlin who perhaps comes from south america or asia and then learns about the wall here yeah i mean for one we do it through the historical sites we talk very specifically about what happened on down there are shasta so its very clear that the burning will split the street into 2 parts. So one side of the street belonged to east berlin and the other side to west berlin. Everything that made up the cold war in general was condensed here. Thank you so much my pleasure thank you. I press on toward the city Center Following the reverse be here behind whats now the government quarter the river mark the border between east and west until 989. But it was guarded just as closely as elsewhere it is these white crosses on the banks testify many escape attempts here ended in death. It wasnt just the wall that stopped us gaping from east germany there was also the infamous secret police the stasi they had in the tourist prison near berlin and if they thought you were plenty to flee the country the chances were high that you would hear that prison. That snows the shanty prison most the scene of humiliation and horror she was held there and 974. 00 as a political prisoner of the state security service. I was kept here for almost half a year. And 2 and a half years in who in extra near the texas border in the worst womens penitentiary in east germany at the time in 974. 00 she was a star announcer on east German Television about her class. But in fact she had no belief in the system on a vacation in budapest she entered the west German Embassy to ask about emigrating upon emerging she was arrested by the sharkey. My children were 11 and 12 for 5 months i didnt know what was happening with them and the stasi had no obligation to tell me. Set up in a former soviet secret Police Prison when shown hausen served as the central Remand Prison for the state Security Ministry from 1951 to 89 after the war was the prison held mostly people who had tried to flee on emigrate from east germany minister for state security. Personally took it upon himself to interrogate. As well as knew could put it weve given you the opportunity to take up this wonderful profession and now you want to turn your back on us. Since i was famous my case went right up through the government circles and they know and hanukah. They wanted to make an example of me to scare others off anyone from television or any public figure as if to say look what will happen to you if you try this or even entertain the thought it was such personal. Today shown how to guides visitors groups around the memorial showing them the plane delivery vans like those that once brought them here. This back past 1000 days fitted with 5 detention sounds. From the 1960 s. On physical violence was not used but the stars he had other ways to torture the prisoners. And here number 104 was my own cell. And while you sat there brooding and thinking and crying this flats would fly open and somebody would shout were not in the sanatorium here lets sit on the stool and dont lean on anything. Well a day has 24 hours from tenet 9 to 6 in the morning i was allowed to lie on the cot so i had to spend the rest of the time on the stool or pacing back and forth if i wasnt being interrogated. Education hence was sentenced to 3 years in prison she waited 2 more years for permission to leave the country but the stars he left its mark on her life even if it never succeeded in making her a victim. The Brandenburg Gate stands as a symbol of germanys reunification until the fall of the wall it symbolized the very opposite it was a part of the deaf strip right by the berlin wall. Do you know what this gate represents. No not really. Do you know where the berlin wall was most here thats what its my guess that it was the around here do you know where the wall ran. Back there behind the gate theres a line on the ground. Be so ive been there i like it were all we know in east or west berlin or in the lloyd. I mean here. In the west in the east yes the east. You know what the Brandenburg Gate stands for no no i just got here its my 1st time here i actually do not know. A couple start its a symbol of germanys reunification so. Exactly im very good. Now its not about my travel experiences but about yours send in your holiday videos and they might end up as a female here on the show this weeks video is by settlement hour from philadelphia seth has been on a tricking trip to norway fantastic pictures of your mountains and waterfalls. Now on my tour along the berlin wall trail i for rifa took stock lots here you can see a couple of sections of the original berlin wall during germanys division the area was a vast empty field now its one of the busiest squares in europe. After the fall of the berlin wall everyone wanted to have a piece of it it was. People who took part in some of the. Later. Well whats left of that and how many real pieces of the berlin wall. It was a golden opportunity for the socalled war. These were people who just went and collected pieces of the berlin wall as many as they could carry a short time before the situation looked very different early in 1909 east germany to head in his chilling vision of the berlin bulls future. Through the world be standing in 50 and 100 years. It stood for only a few more months then it was just on the way piece by piece and finally served a constructive purpose the broken concrete was used as a base material for new roads. The original intact segments of the wall itself are rare today but some of them can be found on the grounds of companies and institutions that hope to share a bit of billions history with visitors. In berlins official souvenir shop original pieces of the berlin wall of various sizes and shapes are sold with a certificate. No but seriously the subject businessman bought them out after the wall came down. There are several locations i can reveal the secret. Provides us with authentic pieces of the war. Today there are still professional wall peckers that work full folk of your skis company. He buys up bits of the wall of all sizes that would otherwise be destroyed. The same to city of the pieces is regularly verified in tests that analyze the concrete age and make up a mere visual inspection wont do it. To customers cant verify the authenticity so they buy bits of the wall at my shop and bring them to a Government Agency for an official analysis that happens a lot with our merchandise and weve done well on the test so far. To defecting from east germany with apparent fuck up of love ski takes personal satisfaction from breaking down the wall. One of your blue tourist sites in berlin connected with its division and the fall of the wall is obviously checkpoint charlie it can hardly be missed with all the tourists and hubbub around it. These large format photos summarize the most important points about the former Border Crossing where east and west faced off toto under high tension. As you know we regularly visit viewers from shores the sights of their hometowns this time with some really big highlights the Golden Gate Bridge cable cars china well you probably already know where were going to be in our media local slot and. So for. A man to rob welcome to San Francisco im happy to show you around some of the sights of the beautiful city. Lets get started. With. San francisco is such an exciting and diverse city from the Golden Gate Bridge chinatown theres such a wonderful mix of People Places and its just always nice to live here. Where we are San Franciscos famous Fishermans Wharf where over a century fishing boats and fleets of gone out to catch a seafood in San Francisco bay in the Pacific Ocean and theyre still doing it to the thing. One of the big attractions here are the seals they came here about 30 years ago nobody knows why but i guess they just like francisco who can blame them. On a typical summer day in San Francisco when its cold i love to come here to say they can eat its a huge arcade full of antique and contemporary arcade games you can come inside. And have a great time. This is one of my favorites very much. And if youre in San Francisco you cant mistake your trip on the cable car. And the cable car takes us right to grand avenue which is the heart of trying to tell. Us. Chinatown is really exciting very different very much its own Little Community which is the oldest trying to town in the United States still vital still colorful. Here we are at lands end the western most part of San Francisco i mean its the Pacific Ocean lets take a look at the search for bathroom. The super bass were built in the 19th century as a huge indoor swimming complex they used to water from the ocean and had numerous pools for diving and swimming about 50 years ago it burned down and this is all that remains. To. The. Lands end means the end of our quick tour of San Francisco hope you enjoyed it and hope to see in the city soon. I continue on our quest for traces of germanys division along the berlin wall its fall and 989. 00 was the 1st big step toward reunification. An impressive relic is the longest section of the berlin wall Still Standing in the site gallery. A few weeks after the fall of the wall 118 artists came from 21 countries to paint this section. But pictures are expressions of a new era dawning and hint at the emotions fears and hopes it inspired. The wall if many visible traces in berlin and not just in the central tourist spots. There are less unknown places that have come back into their own. One such a way since its called its back. Until november in 1989 it was part of the dish strip. The water was gone the basin filled in with rubble and topped with border fortifications. After the fall of the wall the urban green space around being a big thing was restored its a good place to end my journey along the berlin wall tree. Ive seen a lot and i have learned a lot and i think its quite good to focus on one topic discovering berlin by following the path of the berlin wall that takes you right through the heart of the capital you have a chance to catch some sightseeing highlights and at the same time you can learn a lot about the citys history or you want more by by see you next time youre on check it. Heres after the fall of the berlin wall on t. W. It was the night everything changed. The night every day people made history. Tonight a divided country came together. It was. The fault of the last. 30 minutes. Or. Closely. Listen carefully to. The soon. To be a good. Match. Discovered. Subscribe to the documentary on. The literature invites us to see people in particular. To see as the kids find strength growing up her. Objective is to show. You the books on youtube. Welcome to the butt is the game here for d. W. I. We have plenty to talk about in. This coverage. 3 more pew. Poll we have. Lets have a look at selling album of rallies look so you dont want to miss. We can t. W. Really. Early in terms of africa and the world join us on facebook t w africa. Syrian born american visits a local bar in berlin. He lives just opposite with a father who was a member of the hitler youth as a child. Some residents are suspicious of refugees in the neighborhood. Americans curious about the bars regulars. To cross the road worlds apart. Starting november 11th on d w. This is data news and these are our top stories germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall european leaders joined chancellor Angela Merkel for a spectacular celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate in berlin which was the symbol of divided europe till the border was opened on november 9th 1909