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Exploring the Soviet Memorials located around Berlin
Here we are going to talk a bit about the most famous Soviet Memorials in Berlin and some smaller ones as well. These three soviet memorials are mostly well known, and they were built to commemorate the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten was the first to…
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Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten
Soviet Memorial Tiergarten Exploring a piece of the Second World War in the heart of Berlin ; The...
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Vogelsang: Exploring an Abandoned Soviet Military Base
Vogelsang used to be more than just a Soviet military base. This place used to be a city filled with secrets and soldiers, but today it lays empty in Brandenburg while it rots away in the middle of a forest.
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Schöneberg Gasometer: Climbing the Skeleton of Abandoned Gasworks
Schöneberg Gasometer Climbing the Skeleton of Abandoned Gasworks ; Whenever we travel around...
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Checkpoint Bravo and the Teltow Canal Bridge in Dreilinden
Checkpoint Bravo was the name of one of three Allied checkpoints used by the United States in the divided Germany and Berlin during the years after the Second World War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Before 1969, this Checkpoint could be found on a bridge over the Teltow Canal. Still, it was moved to a different location called Albrechts Teerofen. In here, we will be talking about the original and abandoned Checkpoint Bravo.
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Berlin Soviet Memorial: Treptower Park
The Berlin Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is the biggest of the three war memorials the USSR left in Berlin after the end of the Second World War. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky as a memorial for 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin between April and May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949, and it used to serve as the central war memorial in East Berlin.
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All the locations that we found Lenin in Berlin
Lenin At 150 All the locations that we found Lenin in Berlin ; It started a couple of years ago,...
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Postcard from Berlin with Clive James
Clive James’s Postcard from Berlin was part of a TV travel documentary series that was broadcast in Great Britain in 1995. In this show, you can see Australian broadcaster and comedian Clive James exploring the German capital a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the country.
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