It got demonetised because of this 100+ year old sketch showing BOOB. I assume you’re too titillated to function after seeing it.

Unfortunately this got marked by YouTube as unfit for monetisation, even after human review. Such a shame because I think it’s packed with really solid information, and you’d have to be quite foolish to find anything unpalatable in there. Anyway, hopefully it now has some forbidden fruit appeal 😉

Take a look at the Krolloper, a beautiful entertainment venue from the 1840s that became an emblem of Weimar culture before suffering the indignity of becoming the Nazi’s ‘parliament’ and being blown to bits by the RAF youtu.be/3RI3V_kzqWY

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Amazing work 👇

📍 This year we launched a new digital archive putting collections from our archive at the hands of researchers worldwide For the past 8 months we have continued to add new collections to the site, now totalling 215,000 pages of crucial evidence from the Holocaust and the Nazi era... buff.ly/TVeLPnv

Guys I’ve made it

What now?

Former Stasi foreign intelligence chief Markus Wolf took to the stage and admitted the East German state was guilty of much, and that reform was needed. The crowd weren’t exactly thrilled to hear from an establishment figure at this juncture. He was met with boos.

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As I saw it in 1964, when it was nearing completion ...

Good morning! It’s Sunday, time to relax. Why not take a tour of some lost East Berlin sights from the comfort of your sofa/kitchen table/toilet? This one features angry Honecker, Mexican Honecker, and, no joke, hot & young Honecker 👇

Unter den Linden

The Nazis extended Germany’s national bank and used it to store gold stolen from holocaust victims - including wedding rings and fillings - formed into gold bars. The gold was then moved to a mine in Thuringia as the Soviets approached the capital in 1945. It was discovered by US forces.

Happy #Halloween! A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

Note: don’t rely on lactose intolerant 6 year olds in war.

It’s a glorious morning in the Hauptstadt. I’m off to show a gang of 10 pals the sights!

Just in time for spooky season!

Bit ostentatious tbh. I’ll keep my flat. Humble.

Skive work, watch this 👇

The Staatsratsgebäude, built in 1964, served as the official seat of East Germany’s head of state, housing the offices of the State Council and its chairman.

Latest YouTube is out and importantly features Ulbricht and Honecker in their sombreros. More importantly, I take a walk through 1989 East Berlin (as it were) and tap away about a few buildings on a walk you can just as easily take yourself on - there’s a map in the video description.

27 October 1971: the Interflug office, ‘Haus des Reisens’, in East Berlin (via Bundesarchiv)

I am once again asking Deutsche Bahn to turn the heating DOWN. We are, every single one of us using the S-Bahn, already dressed for outside. @deutschebahn.com pls 🙏

Okay now I need to go back to Berlin. I've been to the Bundestag twice but have never noticed this piece of the wall!

A little bit of bonus Cold War history behind the Reichstag. Part of the Gdansk Lenin Shipyard wall where the Solidarność movement started to gain traction in 1980. August protests that year were the beginning of the end for Poland‘s communist regime.

The grave of Willi Schulz, 1881-1928, Oberförster of the Grunewald, buried in the forest cemetery.

Further evidence that Germans should be banned from making sandwiches. I’m not even talking about mixing breads, I’d give that a go, but they each look drier than the Sahara. The filling on the left looks like it can only be described as “meat product”.

My theory is that every household has one piece of cutlery that its occupants hate. For me it’s this odd-shaped spoon. I hate this spoon.

Why am I only just learning about this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidar...

Perfect light in the cemetery by Hallesches Tor the other day. Thinking of blocking next October entirely for filming 👀

This morning’s task was filming some additional footage of a book for my next YT video. Local dog wanted very much to be on the show 😂👇

Spotted in the skies over Kreuzberg 6 years ago today

Hallo from Berlin Mitte 👋

It’s not only the Louvre that gets robbed in comedic fashion, you know? In 2017 a baffling 100KG €1m CAD coin was robbed from the Bode Museum. The thieves here too stuck a ladder up to a window. In this case though, 99.9999% pure gold loot was easily sold on…

Interesting logo choice here

Another beautiful autumn morning. Time for a Ku‘damm tour!

Brick Expressionism in Wedding. Will have to do a deep dive on Berlin‘s many beautiful buildings in this style one day!

A Berlin ‘rubble woman’s’ boots, ca. 1945 Museum Ephraim Palais

Excellent weekend watch as voted for by a panel of independent judges and definitely not made up by me, honest 👇

East Berlin tour in glorious autumn sunshine this morning 👋

#Berlin Hier 1931 Friedrich Simon Archenhold am Okular seines Teleskops in Treptow !

Screenshot behaviour was changed in the new iphone OS, which has made it difficult to take and share multiple screenshots. If you’ve also noticed this and find it annoying, you can change it back to the old method by switching “Full Screen Previews” off👇

List of researchers focusing on the German Democratic Republic go.bsky.app/drcrDK #DDR #GDR #RDA #EastGermany

My latest long format video is all about the Neue Wache. Enjoy! Yes, the thumbnail is… a choice… but you’ve got to fight for clicks over there! There’s a LOT more to the place (and the video) than him. youtu.be/-IGMBXSDnCs

Excited to announce that we've finally printed a small run of our newest photo book "Faces From The East" - a 32 page documentation of soviet faces left behind after the military withdrawal of the Soviet Union from East Germany. Grab your copy now! -> digitalcosmonaut.com/faces-from-t...

Friedrich Simon Archenhold, born in 1861, founded the Archenhold Observatory in Treptower Park in 1896, home to the “Celestial Cannon,” the world’s longest moveable telescope - it’s still there today! He died #otd 1939 after being forced out of his career under the Nazis.

Dropping soon 👌🏻 Shoot me a DM if youre interested, though a page will be up on the website soon.

My review of autumn: fuck yeah!