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09-22-2012 , 09:40 PM

monarco

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post videos/audio files/text passages from historic events that have had an emotional impact on you. I hope the mod(s) will allow stuff at least from 9/11/01 since it's probably the one 'historical event' everyone has experienced regardless of age.

To get the ball rolling here are 2 clips on the fall of the Berlin Wall, first maybe the most iconic:

[Until the edge of the 30th September 1989]

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4500 East Germans had taken refugee on the area of the West-German embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, with a view to be permitted to leave for West-Germany []. The video shows the West-German foreign minister at that time, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, standing on the embassy's balcony and telling the refugees that their departure permission had been negociated.

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"We're trying for a solution, but I don't want to give a statement now. First I'd like to speak to the Germans from the GDR who are currently at the embassy."[B]

"We have come to you to tell you that today, your departure..." (rest is drowned in cheers)

The iconic part being obviously the 2nd, starting at about 0:10. Being German I love the '(rest is drowned in cheers)', obviously. I cannot help but smile at it.

The 2nd video is German too, obviously, the opening of the inner-German border after the mistaken announcement of Günther Schabowski (whose wiki-article is worth reading for this - very important - mistake alone:

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09-22-2012 , 09:54 PM

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and a picture from June '89 (just a few months/years before the breakdown of the GDR/USSR):

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09-22-2012 , 10:57 PM

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I was a young boy at the time and coming home from school to find out which ships had been sunk and battles had taken place seemed pretty exciting. A young guy who went to my school fought and died over there in what was really a needless conflict (the falklands)

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09-22-2012 , 10:59 PM

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Im likely turning this into a German history thread but this might seriously be the most remembered, most important picture in its history after '45:

to grasp its full meaning read the wiki entry on Willy Brandt's 3rd Reich history, particularly the bolded part:

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Kniefall von Warschau (German for "Warsaw Genuflection") refers to a gesture of humility and penance by social democratic Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[1]

The incident took place on December 7, 1970 in what was then the communist People's Republic of Poland during a visit to a monument to the Nazi-era Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After laying down a wreath, Brandt, very surprisingly, and to all appearances spontaneously, knelt. He remained silently in that position for a short time, surrounded by a large group of dignitaries and press photographers.

Brandt had actively resisted the early Nazi regime, and had spent most of the time of Hitler's reign in exile.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warschauer_Kniefall

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09-22-2012 , 11:24 PM

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Obligatory Dan Carlin video/podcast - Ghost of the ostfront, episode 1. The dramatic pictures of the german advances in russia.

One thing is that i always asked myself what a medieval or antiquity battlefield looked like - this gives me a good idea

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