A pretty much javelin in time 164. 00 Michael Vaughan koestler and some friends dug a tunnel from west berlin to eastbourne and they wanted to help people to the g. D. R. It took them 6 months of digging and secrets to complete until you can experience the tunnel in virtual space 12 meters deep 145 meters long the young tunnel builder from back then is now a pensioner when Klaus Michael from khosla sees the virtual video of the berlin wall on tunnel it brings back memories from 164. This. Way an exhausting. Especially on the knees are always covered in scratches and then to move or. Sometimes we had to lie during the day in constant fear of the tunnel lapsing part dish off to cope through this. Spite of the risks the plan works out 57. 00 women and children were able to flee using the term which is a place in the history books. And the famous story was the mother and family 6 k. Through a house that stood directly at the wall this could also be relived you tubes virtually history. Timeline it offers virtual posters exploring east berlin when it was still part of the g. D. R. The bus passes by buildings that no longer exists today which is interesting to locals. Travelling through checkpoint charlie the Border Crossing point between east and west is particularly interesting. Over here is the i think the most frequently asked question is actually where is the wall. And its of course an enormous responsibility to present and to make this experience relive a ball. But its also a chance to encourage people to think about what things are like them and what lessons we can learn from. Them but also its an impressive images today it really does look very different than our state maya is a scholar of Cultural Studies at the university in berlin and Kings College in london she looks at the ways in which we are can make history more vivid we asked how effective technologies like Virtual Reality truly are in bringing history back to life. I think these formats work really well and considering how they are becoming more common for personal use it makes sense to use them for educational purposes but its important to have people there for support and supervision. Thats the disadvantage is that Virtual Reality is designed to completely envelop and recreate an intensely emotional situation and. This can quickly lead to taking on a position that can be quite problematic especially in his. Is a very Emotional Experience perhaps its too emotional of an experience to be used to teach history objectively luckily theres another way to time travel games in the adventure game the berlin wall players have flee the d. D. R. The developers of the game hope that it can help educate young people about what life was like in the to tell a tarion state now where exactly was this wall thats probably the most frequently asked tourist question the 0 s f a r can help with. This back complete with border patrols and watch towers. Using augmented Reality Technology the knowledge displays that virtually on your smartphone or tablet. You can even jump through the decades and see how the border. Was transformed from a barbed wire fence into a concrete wall this. Is the most fascinating moment for me is when you put your phone aside and you still have this lingering impression that the objects are still there and that is connecting history to reality in a way thats impossible to do with a book or a movie. The berlin wall was located just a 10 minute walk from our studio here ive obviously test the b. F. Already its pretty interesting but im not fully convinced yet even though it provides spatially imagination of the was bought a during a different historical period im sticking with photographs of course theres more to the g. D. R. Than the wall citizens dont like having their lives reduced to that if you would like to take a more personal look at everyday life in the g. D. R. The project open memory box might be for you a german argentinian filmmaker and a canadian political scientist got together to archive and digitalize home movies records. In 47 to 990 and now publicly available its their contribution to a more comprehensive understanding of life and the g. D. R. Life in the g. D. R. 8 millimeter film personal memories spanning 4 decades 7 years ago lawrence befalls and Alberto Herskovitz made an appeal in the newspaper for 8 millimeter films shot during the g. D. R. They never thought that they would be able to collect more than 2200. 00 film roles. 415 hours a film has now been digitalized and archived and published on the open memory box website you can filter your search west pacific date electricity of drift through the anti archive select in terms like freedom hubby or yellow to see 2 2nd film snippets repeatedly recombined randomly. And these 2 seconds are losing many stories and undersells thats something that Digital Technology allows. If you look at the clips one after the other it changes and it looks a little bit different it has a different effect. Under the. Bus and. These are videos that people innocently shot for themselves for their families. When this is. And thats the big difference compared to our behavior today of course. We also film our surroundings our children the food we and the places we travel to. But the difference is that were also always aware that we might post or share these videos. Whereas this material on the other hand was never intended to be shared widely. But falls and ask if its visited the people who need or filmed or appeared in the videos. They were then asked to comment on the. Sometimes at nights i would dream of going to west berlin to see what it was. Open memory box a more personal and unique glimpse of life in the g. D. R. And whats offered in history books what a great project but for some memories of live in the g. D. R. Less pleasant the ministry of state security or stasi spied on its own citizens when it became apparent that the g. D. R. Was and they they tore up the star the records but not completely 600000000 scraps of paper were left. Now Artificial Intelligence can help to reassemble them. The computer is doing this puzzle using the sky and fragments of the record. 600000000 little pieces are stored in the archives and then you fraction of them have been digitalized it would take centuries for humans to complete this puzzle and thats why the puzzle was invented. And. Size of the fragments was a very special challenge there was for example and a 4th which was torn into a 143. 00 pieces and the. Challenge really. Is the creator of the. Setting Machine Vision at the institute for Engineering Design in berlin since the eightys its a technology that enables computers to recognize and identify objects even without a template. Vision is necessary because there are many visual processes where human beings are unable to. Visual information like medical and tree images for example. Machines are more effective than humans in processing large amounts of pieces of complex shapes like the. First. The software is that each piece memorizing content paper type these categories for presupposing. And self learning algorithm reassembles those pieces that have been identified as belonging to gether. Pilots resemble the 23 bags filled with paper scraps was exposed to the 1st they had to be digital that serene 700000 little pieces which are all grew them was able to reassemble. Or problem even though the software was working the scan it turned out to lack the necessary precision. And his team came up with new plans for a rather. That would enable greater precision but they couldnt get the necessary funding. Even though they no longer scanning stassi for the technologies being used around the world today a program very similar to each has that is being used to put fragments back together that we destroyed like these from the 19th. Jewish community center. Or these books and documents from the cologne city which collapsed in 2000. Meanwhile there are still thousands of bags full of shredded secrets in the stasi documents archives waiting for a machine to put them back together again finding the right piece from 600000000 little pieces its impressive what i can do to me projects like time right make history more tangible i also remember more details what do you think which project impressed you the most and what time period would you like to travel back to let us know on facebook or d. W. Dot com and dont forget to have a look at our you tube channel where theres a lot more on vo thats it for today and. Bust up peaceful revolution and abandon. The power struggle of the german reunification the 2 plus 4 talks between the 2 german states in the form occupying power. Behind the scenes the cold war continues to close to the unification come to sailing. In 15 minutes on t w. Look closely. Carefully. The soon. To be a good. Match. Discovered. Subscribe to the documentary on you tube. Every journey begins with the 1st step and every language is the 1st word published in the nico case in germany to such a. Post why not permit helen furr. To suss it simple online on your mobile and free. Double using a learning course. German made easy. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee their home nearly 71000000 people have been forcibly displaced. The consequences of the disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts traumatic humanitarian crises around the world. Forgetting like i didnt go to university to kill people that i dont want to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone having in many and if i dont theyll kill me. With their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad. Scares me the most about this steady seem to rise is that someday we wont even see the rooster. But what will become of those who stay behind its if my husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger. That the knowledge down. Just starts october 16th. The book. This is g. W. News a line from Berlin Germany celebrates 30 years of National Reagan if occasion german president frank falter steinmeyer speech at the official ceremony calling the past 30 years a triumph of democracy over oppression any issues a warning against populism and extremism. Also coming up donald trump sends a messy. Of thanks to a well wishers as he begins treatment for covert 19. The u. S. President has been transferred to a Military Hospital after showing symptoms of the disease. A michael local welcome to the Program Germany is marking 30 years of the countrys reunification on this Germanys National holiday it was on this day in 1990 that democratic west germany and communist east germany became one country again for the 1st time since the 2nd world war this years official ceremony has been taking place in parts the capital brandenburg state. It was scaled down in size to comply with coronavirus restriction in his keynote speech german president Frank Steinmeier described reunification as a momentous moment in german history. 2020. Public. Is a country that has. Germans and western germans just inhabitants newcomers who have. Come to germany. The confidence from a sense. Of 19. Responsibility will prevail over paternalism that freedom will prevail over absence and look around us in the world if we look around us and this legacy of 1909 was never as important as it is saying thank you. Were joined by. The events for us in. Whats your take on. What i find interesting president always maybe that we should explain to our International Viewers that when the german president or in fact any other german politician said the legacy of 1809 they clearly mean the peaceful revolution that led to the fall of the berlin wall and ultimately to the collapse of the d. D. R. And here in germany of course such an automatic mechanism that you mention 1809. 00 Everybody Knows what youre talking about but theres also goes to show that frank by the time i in his speech stress that you can celebrate one without the other the 3rd of october 1900 wouldnt have happened without the peaceful revolution in 1989 and he said they spirit from then need to be upheld time when there are more and more people who are beginning to question and democracy. Rightly point. In the legacy of 1909 saying its never more important than today what do you think you just mentioned he had in mind when he said that was there anything else you wanted to add to the. Yeah i would like to funk by the time i made it very clear that there are still differences that exist between the. The west here in germany and that we havent overcome old differences but that we have begun to learn from each other and he stressed the fact that the division beginning to be overcome and that we need to Work Together as a society to overcome other differences and to uphold the values of freedom and democracy because that is no longer a geological question whether you question them or whether you believe in them you can see that the organizers of anti corona measure demonstrations for example they come from west germany they come from the region of stuck up which is actually very well. Of course also referred to right wing populists lets listen in. There are those. Who look for the answers for questions to questions about the future always in the past but how youre trying to history those people. Who waved. Black white red flags of the german empire has. Been the imperial war flag. In front of the democratically elected this time. They want another state and. Aggressive state excluding minorities they do not stand in the traditional tradition for which this democracy is they do not stand for democracy no today we stand firmly on the foundation of Freedom Movement the history of democracy in this country. Correspondent nina course is still with us nina steinmeyer criticized those waving imperial flags in front of the reichstag please give us some more background on this. We saw those imperial flags. Couple of weeks ago when there was a big demonstration that was organized against the current restrictions that the government has imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic here in germany and while the boss majority of demonstrators are not considered to be right wing all right wing extremists even there was some groups who are considered to be even neo nazis who also mingled and make in with the demonstrators some of them tried then to storm the German Parliament and they were waving this flag this flag goes back to the german guy from the 19th century but it was also used between 193319355 the german nazi before they adopted the swastika so this is why its such a controversial symbol here in germany you know there in pottstown thanks much. East germans were hoping reunification would give them a better life many found new opportunities and improve their standard of living but others found themselves in the midst of upheaval and were left behind even now and 30 years later divisions remain between east and west. There was no master plan no example worldwide for this is turning event german reunification. Not even a year before the belling wall had come down after months of peaceful protest and the fall is john. Feal u. S. U. K. France and the soviet union gave the green light paving the way to reunify the 2 germanys. Those from the east had to adapt to many things new money and your Economic System and a new lifestyle soon the disillusionment kicked in. What were missing was a its about because you know. You can only financial cost but also the social medical costs archaeological burden connected with client economic decline or germany and the mass unemployment nobody mentioned before in east germany as many as 4000000 workers in the east saw their jobs disappear countless others had to take on work that was below their qualifications many young and educated people left to look for a better life some areas feel didnt like to this day. There are rural areas where theres a lot of poverty and rip people feel left behind turning towards what they have which is often their National Identity or even their racial identities and the last National Elections the center right and center left parties were more popular in the west and germany the far left and extreme right in eastern germany. The celebration nevertheless takes place every year with good reason we have 30 years of peace and prosperity for a lot of people we think of germany as such a stable and secure country i think its amazing when you look back at german history over 100 years germany rammed through from a monarchy to a failed democracy to a dictatorship to a communists system to a successful democracy and then through unification so reinvention is the real headline for german history regardless of the differences really unified germany is often seen as an example of a stable and democratic country. Cross into the u. S. Now where President Donald Trump is being treated at a Military Hospital after his Coronavirus Diagnosis hes expected to remain at Walter Reed Medical Center for several days chumps doctor says hes taking the antiviral drug when desart here earlier white house officials said the hospitalization was only a precautionary measure and trump would continue his president ial duties. The 1st glimpses of the u. S. President since he shocked the world with his covert 1000 diagnosis here donald trump has been transferred to hospital with officials insisting its only a precautionary measure. The white house said he was fatigued but in good spirits and experiencing mild symptoms before takeoff the president assured his supporters he was doing ok. Thank you everybody for the tremendous support. I think. You make your. First lady is doing. So thank you very much appreciated. Here. The white house had been on high alert after news that a top aide was diagnosed with the virus on thursday. Hope picks seen here in the brown coat often travels with president trump. Now the race is on to trace and test the people who might have come in contact with the president and the potential pool of people is huge with an election to win trump has been on the road addressing voters and he hasnt always won a face mask or followed social distancing god lights outside of walter reed Trump Supporters gathered to show their support for the president. But with a month until the election trumps illness has thrown the campaign into uncharted territory. If donald trump sustain office hes going to have to beat the coronavirus 1st. Joining me now is our correspondent myer schwager in washington my i have to assume that the net for the next several days the 1st question out of the gate is going to be what do we know about the president s condition and the treatment hes receiving. Well from what weve heard so far he has what have been described as moderate symptoms theres been a little bit of news very early this morning that hes doing very well we know that hes on a cocktail of drugs its actually not approved by the food and Drug Administration and yet its an experimental treatment but his doctors have said in a few statements that hes taking to it well the 1st lady has also tested positive and she has quote a mild cough and a headache now the white house has been very careful to put out information to really downplay any idea that there might be severe symptoms that hes in really any kind of danger trying to project him as being you know in good spirits having a lot of energy that hes still working while hes in the hospital but there is a bit of a gap here between what the white house is putting out and what the public is really believing though this white house has not been very forthcoming in the past about the president s full medical history and we have to remember this is an administration that has spent the past 9 months of this pandemic downplaying the severity of kovac and there is now a very bright contrast between what the white house is saying and what the public seems to actually be believing what can you tell us based on your learnings about how serious this situation is. Well it seems to have quite a big splash zone or a blast radius the show always say we are up to about 8 people now who have been in contact with the president in the past week who have also come out as having tested positive for covert and we are expecting possibly more throughout the weekend that includes 3 reporters 2 different g. O. P. Senators also former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie his former aide Kellyanne Conway his Campaign Manager all people who are very close to the president but its not just these top d. C. Politicos who are being infected trump in the past week has done events in 7 different states including one in pennsylvania which is an extremely important state for the election and now state Health Authorities are pleading with the that was ins of people who went to this trump rally last saturday to please go get tested so its not just the d. C. Elites it is possibly thousands of people around the country have been affected by this. With the latest on whats been an extraordinary political season in washington d. C. Thank you maya. And a reminder of our top story at this hour germany has been holding an official ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of its reunification president. Event and cost him the describe the past 30 years as a triumph of democracy over oppression. This is news from berlin dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website. Dot com. More news as always at the top of the. Homey pushed home right now climb a tree keep it off the store this is my place to way from just. How much were going to get. We still have time to