Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1962 archive footage

Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1962

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Germany in 1961 and 1962. It contains stock footage of West Berlin, both the western part of the city and eastern one shot from behind the wall: GDR soldiers surveying the death strip (the part of the city between the two walls built to separate the […]

Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1965 archive footage

Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1965

Archival footage shot by an Italian film maker while visiting West Germany in March 1965. It contains stock footage of East and West Berlin: the western side of the city (Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten, the Kurfürstendamm) and the eastern side of the city (Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden, guards marching in front of […]

Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1961 archive footage

Berlin (East and West Berlin) 1961

Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Berlin a few weeks before the wall was built. West Berlin: traffic in front of the Tiergarten, the Victory Column, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and Kurfürstendamm, the Telefunken-Hochhaus, Charlottenburg Palace, the Brandenburg Gate. East Berlin: the […]