had to wait on board while they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station. they were manned, guarded you definitelyjust could not get off. athena kerins leads tours for a group called berlin underworld, which explores the tunnels and passageways underneath the city. so alexanderplatz would have been a ghost station, pretty eerie. what would that have been like? so, for the west berliners coming through, it would have been dark, a little bit eerie, withjust the glowing emergency exit signs, maybe a bit of light creeping in from the tunnel itself. for the east berliners, it would have been completely different, because they weren t allowed to know about this at all. if they knew that it was coming through here, they might be tempted to get into the train station
this was effectively a ghost station. they were manned, guarded you definitely could notjust get off. athena kerins leads tours for a group called berlin underworld, which explores the tunnels and passageways underneath the city. so alexanderplatz would have been a ghost station pretty eerie. what would that have been like? for the west berliners coming through, it would have been dark, a little bit eerie, withjust the glowing emergency exit signs, maybe a bit of light creeping in from the tunnel itself. for the east berliners, it would have been completely different, because they weren t allowed to know about this at all. if they knew that it was coming through here then they might be tempted to get into the train station or the tunnels and use them to escape. but even before those 28 years of division, the tunnels down here harboured secrets. athena is taking me to one
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1989: Some 12,000 US troops arrive in Panama to overthrow the Government of General Manuel Antonio Noriega.