then down here on the floor of one of our signs, again from east berlin, west berlin, saying that no photographs were allowed for the united states military liaison mission. the missions were allowed to be in the foreign countries, but they would always do a cat and mouse game and try to chase them out before they could take pictures. we're going to start to get into some civil defense. the cold war museum back in about 2000-ish or so. we saved and salvaged the civil defense headquarters for washington, d.c. this headquarters was located in lorton, virginia, 20 miles outside of the washington, d.c., area. in the event of a nuclear war with the soviets, this would have been the communication headquarters for civil defense. and this is a schematic we drew up of the inside of the civil defense headquarters. and it has little cubicles here on one of the walls with gsa. with washington gas. with pepco, energy supplier. department of transportation. fire, d.c. fire. u.s. park service. and all of them would have to be coordinating together to broadcast out the signals to their receivers, le

an assortment of east and west stamped. on top there are berlin east and west german signs. they said halt, it is a border, you can't go past this and letting them know it was a dangerous area. here we have an original border marker. they are close to a border and they're not dropping over the border. down here on the floor is one of our signs from east berlin, west berlin, saying no photographs were allowed for the united states military liason mission. back in 2000ish. we saved and salvaged the civil defense head quarters in washington dc. it was 20 miles outside of the washington dc area. in the event of a fair lar area, there was four civil defense. this is a keymatic that we drew up of the inside of the defense head quarters, and there was some with washington gsa, pepco energy supplier, the department of transportation. fire dc, letting people know what is going on. is it safe to come out of your fallout shelters, trying to help them in the event of a nuclear war. what we have behind are actual items from these headquarters. it is picking up the radiation signals. the

berlin 1960 through one huge wall runs through the heart of the city separating east and west and east german residents are strictly forbidden from crossing the border at the risk of being sunk due to virtual history allows me yours to experience life in the divided city firsthand and to see how young west berliners helped those in the east. this man in this picture is those measures and clothes that he's my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel under the burden ball. b.r. goggles bring on tons family legacy to life to let him descend into a virtual shaft like the one his grandfather and other estate agents had built from east to west berlin. 12 meters underground the 145 meter long tunnel under the berlin wall took 6 months to complete its super uncomfortable here. to be our director for sending this is a perfect example for how virtual reality can bring history to life. things have progressed in a way that we now are starting to see historical material processed in a whole new way suddenly old scans can be displayed in a 4 k. or even 8 k. in the are we have th

berliners helped those in the east escape. this man in this picture is also measured from clothes that he's my grandfather and in this picture you see them building a tunnel under the bird and ball. we are goggles bring on tons family legacy to life they let in descend into a virtual shaft like the one his grandfather and other estate agents had built from east to west berlin. 12 meters underground the 145 meter long tunnel under the berlin wall took 6 months to complete its super uncomfortable here. to be our director for sending this is a perfect example for how virtual reality can bring history to life is that. things have progressed in a way that we now are starting to see historical material processed in a whole new way suddenly old scans can be displayed in a 4 k. or even 8 k. in the are we have the opportunity to expand these world. making it possible to step into historic scenes we've otherwise only known from pictures were newspaper articles with can or other one was. gripping tales from the past reconstructed up clos

down here on the floor, one of our signs from east berlin, west berlin, saying no photographs were allowed for the united states military liaison mission. the missions were allowed to be in the foreign countries, but they would do a cat and mouse game. we're going to get into some physical that some defense. the cold war museum, we saved and salvaged the civil defense headquarters from washington dc. this was located in lorton, virginia 20 miles outside of the washington dc area. this would have been the communications headquarter. this is a schematic we drew up of the inside of the civil defense headquarters. it has little cubicles on the walls with washington gas, pepco energy supply, department of transportation, d.c. fire, u.s. park service, and all of them would have to be together to broadcast out the signal to their receivers, letting people know if it was safe to come out. trying to help them in the event of a nuclear war. this is the schematic for the civil defense headquarters located in lorton, virginia. will we have behind our actual items from this headquarters. we have the ge

berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin as arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the eastern european communist regimes that was decision he took in june.

berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin is arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the eastern european communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the jangling of keys in wenceslas square in prague the the torch is the candlelight the songs and so on all that was nothing but operetta it was political operetta it was froth on the tidal wave of history but it was not the cause of the tidal wave of history the cause i'm afraid was much more basic and much more realistic it was the decision as i say of the soviet union no longer to support. those regimes and once the support of moscow had been withdrawn they collapsed so it was not the triumph of people in the streets of berlin or whatever it was instead it is jus political decision taken by moscow wh

the icon of the cheap for the west berliners and older berliners the american jeep is a symbol of freedom. i've experienced it myself when driving through town and. the tires make the singing noise an elderly woman was standing by the road looking in my direction but she couldn't see me with the light in her eyes you see my face is but when she heard the tires singing she lifted her cane and way i'm stuck on thinks. the 1000000000 patrol commemorates berlin's liberation from the nazi regime and recalls the and i'd occupation. funny original vehicles join in some of the participants even with historical uniforms but i must know not past. but it just goes together the right car with the right outfit. if they were 958 cadillac i'd have my hair grease back right now. i may be a girl in a petticoat at my side to go out on the way to go with the car so it's. the participants come from all over germany all the fans men of a dignified age play soldiers on patrol and on site. from 945900 90 american soviet british and french troops were present in their lives. their vehicles had 1st aid kits but t

berlin, a city that was threatened to be cut off from the west. kennedy did not want to get into a game of tit-for-tat with the soviets because that could escalate to nuclear war. but he wanted castro gone. since he had one for president criticizing eisenhower about castro, he needed to do something. if he canceled the plan, he would lookhypocrite. worst he would look soft on communi communism. conventional wisdom has it that the cia misled kennedy about the essentials of the operation. that they really tricked him into going ahead by misleading him, for example, about the chances of the cuban population rising up against castro. i don't think the cia was totally up front, in fact richard bissell later admitted they sold too hard. i don't believe kennedy was fooled either. i think he knew more or less what he was getting into. he got into it any way because he didn't know into it anyway b didn't know how not to get into it. he painted himself into a corner during the campaign. and by the way, most americans are in that same corner with him. everyb

as to pair bond was born in 1975 in west berlin and grew up there she studied fashion design before spending time in paris and moscow in 2004 she launched her own label. has long been known factor in germany she has designed a stage outfit for the internationally known dance metal band harlem shine she also did the costumes for a video shoot for the metal project with them on the bouncer for berlin is legendary bare kind techno club it's another client heard. that haven't look as. the typical is to paragon look is a very strong and it vulnerable feminine look by you can look as if this studio is radiates strength and pry the must dos hours. it's what i'd call and then shell. a uniform and an outfit. also. stay true to her black and draw jenna's style on making the cut as well. and in the course of the show she won over the jury. time. is quite simply my universe. and i wanted to show that to the world so more people would understand what the work of esther perel banty's about so i could all my energy into it so i always remain true to myself. from the very start heidi klum and naomi campbell

it was shown in west berlin before the berlin wall came up. many east germans came over and saw the exhibition, had political overtones. guatemala city had a major coup in the 1950s where the cia intervened and over threw somebody they saw leaning towards communism. the show was there. so it's no accident these shows went to contentious political sites, even in moscow a little bit later. maybe emphasizes or shows us the politics of the family of man. any more questions of family man before we move on? the catalog is circulating so have a look when it gets to you. one artist that is in the family man, at least from my estimation doesn't quite fit in to the show and here's his photograph from a page of people eating. have a japan woman eating, drinking tea or having some sort of rice bowl something right here. something about in the congo drinking out of the coconut. american photograph of someone, a group of patrons at a hamburger joint. right here the caption, new york is taken by robert frank. for me this photograph is different. it suggests

but in 1909 the wall came down in berlin and the border between east germany and the federal republic was opened for the past 30 years now and begin has been at the heart of germany. today i want to take you on a little tour along the border between has said and well visit places that still bear witness to the cold war division of germany and that's a victim's and we'll find out what has changed since reunification turning a once heavily fortified death strip and so unattractive tourist destination. we'll visit a small town torn apart in the cold war. we'll check out bob bullock castle one of the symbols of german reunification. and globe trotters steve painter sends us regards from durban in south africa. i'm heading south all the way along the border between hess and tooling and until i reach the. thursdays in towns meadows and feels quite unimaginable that this region was once marred by the cold war and cut into by the iron curtain i want to find out what things were like back in the day and head over to point alpha a former u.s. observation post at the inner german border. danny t

when the berlin wall fell, everything changed. within a year, east and west germany had reunited. moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. anton was the commander at wunsdorf. now he's back from moscow. for an official event commemorating russia's withdrawal. the general tells me he was the last russian soldier to leave germany. the fall of the wall didn't only have consequences for soviet soldiers, but soviet spies, too. in the first file, there is the pass of vladimir putin. with this pass he could go in the stasi building here in dresden, because he was officer in the kgb and the stasi. in dresden, this archive keeps the records of east germany's secret police, the stasi, and the documents of kgb officers who operated here, like vladimir putin. in here, we've got a photo where you can find vladimir putin. where is he? 0h, on the end. yes. wow, it's amazing to think that this grey figure at the end went on to become president of russia. astonishing. in december 1989, a crowd stormed the stasi offices in dresden and took control. a small group of protesters moved away from the stasi

after 4 days soviet forces had cleared the way to berlin. the situation for german defenses in the west was equally precarious after crossing the rhine allied forces fanned out eastwards capturing one town after another. in. the cruft over my february and march of 45 the van marked was spent it no longer had the strength to maintain an orderly defense line now everything began to collapse its priest was. like the red army in the east allied troops advancing across germany now discovered evidence of the nazi atrocities that had claimed millions of lives in the preceding years. in mid april a british unit reached the bag and bells in concentration camp. for years and maids here were tortured abused and murdered the soldiers had seen their fair share of death and destruction but nothing prepared them for what they found inside. so doc knew it was an army british soldier has recounted how they had expected to be greeted with cheers of joy well coming to liberate his status and. instead what they felt at fag and bells and was shocking and they se

were underway in the german capital ahead of the final battle for berlin. berlin had been declared a defense own on february 1st throughout the weeks of spring berliners erected barricades to fortify the city as best they could in anticipation of the red army onslaught. a few tile undertaking. to come from delhi and this is it's on the let's stop just the battle for berlin was the final act of the war you could say one has to remember that this was a city that is 939 still had more than 4000000 residents it was even now some 2 and a half 1000000 remains in this densely populated area was about to become a single battlefield so i'd say that on april 21st the 1st soviet ground forces penetrated berlin's enter defensive ring. amid a barrage of artillery fire and raids by soviet fighter jets red army units advance through the city suburbs. in a radio address yosef goebbels reminded berliners of their duty to fight to the end i haven't got that. i would be pretty well and. would i like people give it to. god and i would be been you know going to get a good don't

this is d w news live from berlin a coronavirus outbreak in the white house those working at president trump and the west wing are told to wear face masks this after 2 stuff numbers test positive for covert 1000 sending top officials into quarantine goes to washington in a moment also coming up. france visas one of europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns most shops and businesses are reopening for the 1st time in 2 months but some restrictions remain. instead of cash this a.t.m. dispenses rice to indonesian struggling because of the coronavirus restrictions there have cost millions of people their livelihoods. and east africa battles the pandemic and a plague of locusts are devastating crops across the region experts warn that this 2nd wave this year poses an unprecedented threat to food security. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program the coronavirus has reached one of the most secure complexes in the world the white house people working near u.s. president donald trump have been told they need to with face masks after 2 aides tested positive for covert 19 a number of top o

this isn't enough the news live from berlin a coronavirus outbreak in the white house those working near president trump in the west wing are told to wear face masks this after to stop numbers test positive folk over 1000 sending top officials into quarantine will go to washington in a moment also coming up. france eases one of europe's strict just coronavirus lockdowns most shops and businesses are reopening for the 1st time in 2 months with some restrictions remain. and germany 5 a flare up in infections as it eases lock down controls further frustration builds in some circles over the government's handling of the crisis. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program the coronavirus has reached one of the most secure complexes in the world the white house people working near u.s. president donald trump have been told they need to wear face masks after 2 aides tested positive for covert 19 a number of top officials including the vice president are in self isolation the virus has so far killed about 80000 people in the u.s. the outbreak at the white house could undercut a push by pres