At the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated artifacts in the world, and today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii end ed, germany was divided between victors. Thats the united states, france, united kingdom, and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin, which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again, with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin, and the three western powers occupying the western zones of berlin. And this start of the division of germany, and the division of ber ly berlin after the war. Now, that division became concrete with the erection of the berlin wall in 1961. Now, the wall was put up by the eastern germans offensively to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin b
Berlin. Our guide is lead cure art alexis albion who explains, and shows us artifacts used by the east germans to spy on visitors and control their own citizens. Hello, im dr. Alexis albion and im a cure art here at the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated art facts in the world. And today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii ended, germany was divided between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. And this is the start of the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. Now that division became concrete with t
It was once the largest and most magnificent synagogue in germany. A palace of faith a temple of understanding. Beneath its gilded dome fragments of the past desecrated torah scrolls mysterious inscriptions. And charred remnants of darker times. The noir synagogue or new synagogue in the heart of berlin paris testimony to a bygone era. The shimmering dome is visible for miles around the synagogue on Iranian Border schussler is a magnet for tourists a landmark and a solemn reminder. Built as a house of worship more than 150 years ago its a jewel of the city. Yet it. Almost lost on november 1938 kristallnacht the night of broken glass when thousands of synagogues across germany were set ablaze. To mourn as on his way home near the station he sees the facade and the synagogue and claims. The administrative director of the preacher hospital rushes back to work. His hospital is directly next to the synagogue asa sure enough here to starting a fire. Calls the police and threatens to sue the
Thomas martins is showing his successor tom hooper the borough mocker quarry a fossil site close to the town tom bhakti tots who is taking over as the paleontologist at Clayton Stein castle in go top home to 290000000 year old treasures from the lower permian period martin spent 40 years digging through the earths history on the site and who know hopes his time will be similarly fruitful. The bone marker in the thuringia forest is a very special fossil locality. You could say the bra macher is the only lower permian locality in the world well track sprints and the track makers that is skeletons basically be found in one layer. To fit and this group used to be a common academic consensus was that no one would ever find body fossils in this kind of reddish brown vine green rocks. I guess some academic opinion shouldnt be written in stone. Of. Thomas martin showed the consensus to be mistaken with the help of a bone he found as a young geologist at the bro market quarry in 1974. We werent
A very special fossil locality. In the cities and you could say the brawl matter is the only lower permian locality in the world well track sprints and the track makers that is skeletons basically be found in one layer. So if it is going to be a common academic consensus that no one would ever find body fossils in this kind of reddish brown fine grain of rocks. I guess some academic opinion shouldnt be written in stone. Of. Thomas martin showed the consensus to be mistaken with the help of a bone he found as a young geologist at the pro market quarry in 1974. We werent actually looking for bones for execution it happened by coincidence one from the 1st i didnt recognise it as a bone i thought it was a part of the stone just by but then i repaired this white thing and saw it as a bone as. My then teacher and professor on know him on and 5 back wrote to me. Mr martins you didnt find that here it cant be funny so theres no such thing here services. Subsequently except that it gave me a sy