Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Das Wachregiment in Aldershof 1990 (Stasi guard headquarters just after the fall of the Berlin Wall)
youtube.com/watch?v=0k08duVh0wY

How To Academy podcast interview with Philip Oltermann about The Stasi Poetry Circle
howtoacademy.com/podcasts/philip-oltermann-the-stasi-poetry-circle

Short history of the origin and eventual fall of the Berlin Wall. Not very nuanced, definitely a Western bias, but useful for a sketchy understandingof the history
youtube.com/watch?v=X3Xe4AdJaFQ

Berlin Channel - live footage taken in Berlin July 1945
youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A

A film by Beate Schubert New colorization 2024 by Jonas Hoge © 2004, Licensed by Pentagramm Filmproduktion, Berlin
Voiceover and interviewees' voices are dubbed into English
The film footage dates from the 1980s and this captures the reality of divided Berlin at the time
youtube.com/watch?v=GbbkhkVtGH0