Berlin 1945–1989 in 16 Minutes

Berlin 1945–1989 in 16 minutes, told in real archive footage. A city in ruins, split into four sectors, fed from the sky for almost a year, walled in for 28 years, and opened again in one night. Potsdamer Platz was the busiest square in Europe. Then it was rubble. Then it was a death strip with floodlights and anti-tank obstacles. Now it's an office district. One square, one city, a hundred years. The rubble hill built from a flattened city, the four sectors, the airlift that fed two million people from the sky, the night the border closed, twenty-eight years of two Berlins, and the badly briefed press conference that opened the Wall. Chapters: 0:00 One square, four times 1:17 May 1945 3:01 Lines on a map 4:45 1948: The Airlift 8:13 1961: The Wall 10:36 Two Cities 12:07 November 1989 13:52 The Building Site 15:05 Today Archive film: U.S. National Archives and Universal-International News (1961, 1962) · public domain. Photographs via Wikimedia Commons and Flickr: · U.S. Air Force / U.S. Department of Defense (SSgt F. Lee Corkran, SrA David Minor) · public domain · Waldemar Titzenthaler (1932); Michael M. Dean, Canadian Department of National Defence (1945) · public domain · Albert Speer at Nuremberg (1946); rubble railway (1945) · public domain · Vietinghoff, Leonhard Lenz, Wschmock, Singlespeedfahrer · CC0 · pictures Jettcom · CC BY 3.0 · Gerd Danigel · CC BY 3.0 · Willy Pragher · CC BY 3.0 · Roland.h.bueb · CC BY 3.0 · Aad van der Drift · CC BY 2.0 · Eric The Fish · CC BY 2.0 Licenses: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 · creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); Berlin district boundaries: Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg via daten.berlin.de. Modern footage: Pexels License. Music: YouTube Audio Library and Pixabay. Sound effects: Pixabay and Freesound. #Berlin #History #BerlinWall