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
Washington d. C. If the largest collection of espionage, and intelligence related artifacts in the world, and today we are going to be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided, between victors, thats united states, france, united kingdom, and soviet union. Soviet union occupied east and other three countries, that included capital city of berlin. Which was also divided into four sectors, one per each of the victors, again with the soviets, occupying the eastern zone of berlin, and the three western powers, occupying the westerns of berlin. The start of the division of germany. And the division of maryland, after the war, at that division became concrete. With the direction of the berlin wall, in 1961. Now the wall was put up, by the eastern offensively to keep people out. In new years after world war ii, and with the occupation of east germany, and east berlin by the soviets, hundreds of thousands of people, in the east, had been fleeing to the west. Th
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
Im alexis, i am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. The united states, france, United Kingdom and soviet union. Soviet union again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of germany and berlin. That became concrete with the direction of the berlin wall with the berlin wall. The wall was put up by east germans of stents of late to keep people out. And with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of intelligence and skills in the east. The east germans called what we called the berlin wall the antifascist fork. It was to keep out the fascist, to keep out the west. It did keep millions of these ge
I am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. Have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. France,ed states, United Kingdom and soviet union. Soviet union again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of and berlin. The became concrete with direction of the berlin wall with the berlin wall. The wall was put up by east germans of stents of late to keep people out. And with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of skills in the east. The east germans called what we called the berlin wall the antifascist fork. It was to keep out the fascist, to keep out the west. Keep million of these germans in as well. The city of berlin was completely isolated