Theres no recollection of those news events, so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like feels quite special. By 1989, the Berlin Wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. Travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. But im heading down into the U Bahn, berlins underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. Ooh now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the U Bahn three stops in that direction had