Name: Berlin – Fateful Years of a Metropolis
Uploaded: 2021
Description: A Berlin chronicle of superlatives: six decades, from the 1950s to the 2000s, when Berlin is once again the capital of a united Germany.

A Berlin chronicle of superlatives: six decades, from the 1950s to the 2000s, when Berlin is once again the capital of a united Germany.

The Berlin blockade ends, the 1950s begin with the founding of two states in 1949 which tears the city apart into East and West. And yet the economic miracle emerges from the ruins of the war. The existential question that looms over everything: “socialism or capitalism”?

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1950s

The 60s - in Berlin they are marked by the building of the Wall and everyday life in the shadow of the Wall. Successful escape attempts and Wall deaths. Short hours of shared happiness, when passport agreements made the Wall more permeable for a short time.

1960s

The 1970s are a special decade in Berlin as well. The euphoria and revolutionary mood of the sixties change into a colorful, hedonistic state. New paths in politics: change through rapprochement - also in East and West Berlin.

1970s

Cheap, trashy, creative - that's Berlin in the last decade before the fall of the Wall. Poppers, punks, and new wavers were having a rendezvous. While freaks, rockers and peepshows spread out on the Ku'damm boulevard.

1980s

The Wall comes down, Germany and Berlin are reunited. Now what belongs together grows together - or does it? Berlin becomes a workshop of unity and a playground for artists and party people.

1990s

A new millennium - Berlin is poor, but sexy. Terror in New York on September 9, 2001, Berlin is in shock. Rejoicing over the Euro; grumbling about the Teuro. Problem neighborhoods and parallel societies. The Hatun Sürücü case - an honor killing shakes the city.