Archive footage from 1961 and 1989 shows the construction and collapse of the Berlin Wall. The video captures dramatic scenes of residents attempting to cross the wall through tunnels and barriers, and later, crowds celebrating its fall by climbing atop the structure and breaking it apart.
The Berlin Wall, erected in August 1961, became a symbol of the Cold War and the division between East and West Germany. Its demolition began in June 1990, with German reunification on October 3, 1990, and the wall’s removal completed by 1992.
00:17The GDR government decided to build a wall between the western sectors and its capital.
00:25The Berlin Wall.
00:30It went up on the night from Saturday to Sunday, August 13, 1960.
00:35A world of universal human values from a world of inhumanity until the first year.
00:43For the east, a wall of millions of people, one-sixth of the entire population.
00:48For almost three decades, the wall was stormed by those who felt stifled in the GDR, who could not come to terms with the division of Germany.
01:03The crisis of east German society, this caste of the Soviet command system, is already erupting in the streets.
01:21The so-called peaceful revolution has begun, and far from peacefully.
01:27This materialized image of the Iron Curtain has been dismantled for souvenirs.
01:33And perhaps, at this turning point in history for the entire world, the key to everything happening should be sought in that distant meeting place at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
01:44That night, the wall with a capital W, the Berlin Wall, fell.
01:52Professional understanding, and paved the way for a new world view.
02:06Few could have predicted such a course of events, and even fewer could have foreseen that the Soviet-American change would signal a monumental global change.
02:22According to legend, the walls of biblical Jericho collapsed at the sound of a trumpet.
02:29That night became the prologue to a unified Germany.
02:32And perhaps someone is behind.
02:36The
02:37Stories of pensioners who were eligible to leave the country.
02:55Almost the entire country suddenly made a pilgrimage to the previously forbidden Mecca of capitalism.
03:06academician Stube never lived to see the day when the first holes appeared in the hated wall.
03:25And in the GDR, the novel, Zuber, was finally published.
03:29It is very important for people to exchange everything good they have.
03:43Today it sounds like a joke.
03:46Today, the wall.
03:59It's very important.
04:00It's very important for people to make fun of the game.
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04:08I love both Jesuits.
04:08My day is on the low feet.
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