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so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i'm heading down into the u—bahn, berlin's underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u—bahn three stops in that direction had to wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station.

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but from berlin's vast central station, i'm taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we're doing it — we're crossing the tramway. ahh! fabulous! oh, it's beautiful. i can see the tv tower on my left. and it's so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexanderplatz is, these days, the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. so, i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself — and i'm sure for generations younger — there's no recollection of those news events,

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but from berlin's vast central station, i'm taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we're doing it — we're crossing the tramway. ahh! fabulous! oh, it's beautiful. i can see the tv tower on my left and it's so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexanderplatz is, these days, the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. so, i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself — and i'm sure for generations younger — there's no recollection of those news events, so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it

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the u—bahn network. oh, wow! welcome to our bunker. how long would they have stayed down here? as the war progressed, and especially as the americans joined the war, the americans bombed in the day, the british bombed at night, and towards the battle of berlin, when there was also street fighting, people were down here days on end. it's quite interesting because you can hear rumbling going past. they get that big rumbling, passing noise all the time. would they have been aware that this bunker was here? you mean the passengers? the passengers, yeah. yeah, for sure, because this place was used primarily for people who were in the transit system and, during a bombing raid, had to come somewhere. the people in here were lucky. as we go a few stops up the u8 line, athena takes me forward in time to a later shelter — a symptom of berlin's position

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regional public transport network. it was a cost—of—living measure introduced in 2023, initially at just nine euros each. i do love a train — who doesn't? — so i'm planning to take them to crisscross the country and get a better look at the close relationship between germans and their railways. from berlin's iconic u—bahn to the incredible hanging overhead railway of the industrial west to the makeshift island trains of the northern coast... we've got the birds flying, the water, the light — this is stunning! ..i'm here to see how engineering and a bit of imagination have led to a network like no other. doors beep with almost 40,000km of track, germany's rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train.

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it was a cost—of—living measure introduced in 2023, initially at just nine euros each. i do love a train — who doesn't? — so, i'm planning to take them to crisscross the country and get a better look at the close relationship between germans and their railways. from berlin's iconic u—bahn to the incredible hanging overhead railway of the industrial west to the makeshift island trains of the northern coast... we've got the birds flying, the water, the light — this is stunning! ..i'm here to see how engineering and a bit of imagination have led to a network like no other. doors beep with almost 40,000km of track, germany's rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train.

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might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years, with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i'm heading down into the u—bahn, berlin's underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u—bahn three stops in that direction had to wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station.

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but from berlin's vast central station, i'm taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we're doing it — we're crossing the tramway. agh! fabulous! oh, it's beautiful. i can see the tv tower on my left and it's so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexanderplatz is, these days, the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. so i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself — and i'm sure for generations younger — there's no recollection of those news events, so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it

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might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i'm heading down into the u—bahn, berlin's underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u—bahn three stops in that direction had to wait on board until they got safely four stops down that way. this was effectively a ghost station.

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shelters built into the u—bahn network. oh, wow! welcome to our bunker. how long would they have stayed down here? as the war progressed, and especially as the americans joined the war, the americans bombed in the day, the british bombed at night. and towards the battle of berlin, when there was also street fighting, people were down here days on end. it's quite interesting because you can hear rumbling going past. they get that big rumbling, passing noise all the time. would they have been aware that this bunker was here? you mean the passengers? the passengers, yeah. yeah, for sure, because this place was used primarily for people who were in the transit system and, during a bombing raid, had to come somewhere. the people in here were lucky. as we go a few stops up the u8 line, athena takes me forward in time to a later shelter — a symptom of berlin's position

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