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Thank you for the video. The Germany that was.

Just beautiful. Calm, tranquil. Spent a lot of time there in the late 70's - early 80's. Those were the days!

Contra Dance & Music is Fantastic & Wholesome for All ages & abilities!!

Faszinierend, das wieder zu sehen. Ja, viele Ecken sind mir aus Kindertagen noch so in Erinnerung. Und ich war erst Mitte der 1970er das erste Mal in Berlin-O. Hat sich also in der ganzen Zeit wenig verändert, scheint mir. Auf jeden Fall Danke für die Bilder.

The thing that always gets me with the GDR is that it's so odd to see a large european city with NO advertisements of any kind. Kind of nice tbh

This is real hisory through the eyes of your camera. Unlike the censorship and disinformation we get from our USA goverment today.

This all looks like 8mm footage to me. Home movies.

I was an exchange student in Berlin in 1970, and went across to East Berlin many times. This is exactly how I remember it.

The leftover rubble in East Germany had to break any man's heart. Old Man Russ made no effort to even fix that.

For those of you who are thinking of going back to visit Berlin, I highly recommend the Berlin Underground Tours that tell the story of Berlin University students who tried to get their fellow students out of East Berlin by digging tunnels, once the Wall had gone up, as well as the numbers of U-Bahn employees and border guards who used the U-Bahn to flee westwards. There's also the Espionage Museum which gives you a very good idea of what was going in and around Berlin at that time.

Trabi, Trabi, Trabi ... !❤

Amazing, William ... respect!

1:07 sometime the soldiers are so smart, use a mirror to disturb filming... These soldiers didn't accept, when grandfather said about WW2 "I had my orders", but after 1990 they tried the same.

Very interesting,thank you for this good video

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Ah yes, 1969 in Geneva changed my life. Only issue was the traumatic culture change in coming back to the States! Don’t show all this to an impressionable teenager and then take it all away, I was never able to come back home to this and that fact ruined my life, really. Can’t go back!

I remember when I walked across Checkpoint Charlie in 1977, as soon as I crossed into East Berlin, I could see very close by, some buildings that were clearly bombed in WW2, that still hadn't been repaired or demolished. I believe eventually they were demolished to clear the way for a wider "no man's land" on the border with West Berlin. There were lots of other buildings further deep into East Berlin that still looked bombed. I remember walking past the famous Jewish Synagogue, still totally bombed out, that just had a fence around it, no signage, just a bunch of rubble.

So amazing. I miss the polar bears . I wonder which polar bear that was

Miss my hometown so much since leaving eight years ago so appreciate these films. Was in the parade from the very beginning 1974, thank you

I danced in the parade since the very beginning 1974, lived in Santa Barbara for 60 years. I miss my hometown since I had to leave eight years ago. So I appreciate these videos thank you

This is very interesting. I never got to go see Berlin at all. I wish I could have seen the 2 Berlions to compare them. A lot I do not know. I am surprised they allowed tourists to take cameras at all into East Berlin. Did they allow the good cars, like Mercedes and Porsche to go into East Berlin? Was anyone allowed to have cars like that if they lived in East Berlin? Or were they only allowed to have those crummy little Trabant cars? Did everything shut down real early, with no night life or rock and roll clubs at night? I would like to know exactly how it really was, what was allowed, what was not, what was common, etc, beyond just hearing about the wall and the Stasi agents. I bet they had almost no street crime or shootings with all the Stasi and military everywhere.

Ich muss schon sagen: "Alle Achtung! Da hat sich aber jemand was getraut! Einfach so am Grenzübergang zu filmen. Das wäre mir im Traum nicht eingefallen, das so ohne weiteres zu tun. Am Ende hätte man mich nicht in den Osten reingelassen, oder mir den Film weggenommen, oder mich gar verhaftet wegen Spionageverdacht, oder so. Junge, junge...

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Я появился на свет в 1969 в гор. Schwerin.

Thanks for the video! Do you have any resources (or suggestions) for how to learn this kind of dance?I have some ballroom waltz background but all the tutorial videos I've found are ballroom steps.

I was in West Berlin in 1969 !!!!!

At what height/footage is it too high of a tide to get around the bend to Hendry’s without getting too wet?

Magical vibes…The Boathouse is great restaurant/bar too! At what tide (height/feet wise) is too high to get around the bend to Hendry’s and without getting too wet?

Ost und West Berlin

And in the "Bridge of Spies" everything was black-white, faded and destroyed... Hollywood once again deceived us!

Such cool movies! Love the live mermaids at Disneyland ;)

Back when you saw mostly Germans in Berlin...

Schade, bin nicht zu sehen, habe damals an der Mauer damals als 8 Jähriger Grünzeug für meine Meerschweinchen gezupft.Als die Mauer fiel 1989 war ich genau wie die Mauer 28.

1:40 Who is the bourgeoisie with the convertible car ?

Prekrasno Pozdrav Od Makedonija !

This is where the Unix time has started

2:30 on the right side you might have seen me, 10 years old playing soccer with my friends.

I remember, when I was standing on the East side of Berlin and was looking through Brandenburg Gate to the West, that suddenly I recognized that I am the red slave and prisoner of the Red criminals. And that I am to young to be a subject of their insane experiment. And five years after that I escaped with my young family to the freedom. Lost everything. Just to be free.

Świetny film

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Looking at the shot of the B-burg gate; there is the wall, and a few feet before that the sign saying your are leaving the American Sector, and a lot of space before that until another smaller barrier with a tourist getting his photo taken, so where was the border exactly? I could imagine the Communists building the wall a few inches inside their borders, but was there some sort of DMZ on the western side too ? Although in other places I've seen graffiti on the wall so I'm guessing there wasn't a buffer between the free people of West Berlin and the wall itself in some places....anyone ?

I'm seeing quite a bit of cars that aren't Trabbants

Fantastic video footage -- even with the antiquated footage quality you can see the beauty of much of the more Democratic half of Germany.

Not a migrant to be seen☝️😊

What a magical lovely video I'm gonna watch 2 or 3 times

What´s the official explication provided by communist (aka totalitarian) regimes to keep very strict control of their boarders? The real reason we all know.

Even though its unified politically I have read that there are massive cultural differences between east and west even to the point of type of light is used . A sattelite map confirms this showing the old border and the different colour of light .

0:48 so El Chapo was an East Berliner?

Lovely footage, truly amazing. I was wondering. Would it be okay to use some of this footage for a music video?

3:38 what is the function/name of this building?