get across the berlin wall in total more than 600 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall its did for 28 years until 1989 that famous day when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the frontier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents activists in east and west germany that helps local thousands of people across the in and german border our reporter christina custer caught up with one of them the best thing about jail which to says was being left out of a so once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german secret police the stasi for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind through hyper control isolation this information on the cusp of the worst 11 months of my life here after a while as you start to long to be sentenced pledged to never accepted l

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from east berlin is very much all of that and for the fans. in the club needed to expand that stadium a decade ago the fans rebuilt the place themselves. only on maybe 4 financially but rich in community commitment and culture. on sunday they hosted logic the only other club for eastern germany and a world away in terms of money and heritage. from kick off the home fans normally a vocal crowd staged a 15 minute silent protest against the visitors perceived commercialism although many found it hard to startle their cheers and soon on gone off to a lively start. whom you all must just buy matches last season but now up against champions league qualifiers it's a whole other thing. after a quarter of an hour in their home state folk were back at full volume. but fortunately that failed to help their team parcel house to their pitch passing the month of july heat with. all the time in the world to pick a spot. bad luck from the boycotts or just poor defending. aside from new players what's it also recorded bewley are not the smartest coach arguably

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are joined in the bundesliga for the 1st time ever by rivals union own after the east berlin side were promoted by a playoff. it's been a summer of ecstasy for. the arrival of top flight football at the outer 1st i means that 2 historic capital city darby's are on the horizon. has to be there with both clubs in the 1st league and also real proud of this because we can play against their visibility in the big big derby and that's what we look for this season. and rising in the east means that heter have a challenger for the capital city crown it's the climax of an unlikely success story. journey to the bottom is eager has been a long and arduous 120 years ago the club was on the brink of bankruptcy and extinction now they've got a freshly renovated stadium plans to expand it even further and have just become the 1st club from the old east german leagues to make it to the bundesliga. in 2009 but out west ham have long been at home in the upper reaches of german football very accustomed to having the bondeson eager to themselves this year they've got company. a hatter star and current gen

all eyes will be on berlin for the east/west capital city derby . with the city about to starar, e countdown iss on. it will be the first time everr that these two sidides meet in e german top-flight.t. it is a historic occasion. it will be a m msive footbalallg occasion for both teams. berlin's bragging rights are on the line. >> they certainly are. we are all very excited for berlin's teams. before i let you go, a reminder of the top stories we are tracking or you -- for you this hour. pro-democracy protesters halted lights for a second consecutive day. hong kong chief executive carrie lam warned the city could be on a path of no return. you are watching "dw news" from berlin with me, laila harrak. i will be back with "the day," the news in review. don't forget you can always get the latest t news by heheading o our website, dw.com.. see you in a couple minutes. . right please clashed with protesters in hong kong as the international apples is cruel to a stand still for a second day violence has escalated barras demonstrate to target people they b

as i was working in east berlin, because berlin is no longer divided like it used to be before, with the wall. now you can go to east berlin from west berlin. there's no problem. i was walking in a big avenue. it's like the champs-elysees in paris. and on the side, i see a museum dedicated to villabont. villabont became the mayor of be bergmeister, they called it, of berlin, in the '60s. but during the war, he fled. he went to norway and eventually to sweden when norway was invaded, and he didn't want to have anything to do with the germans. he was an anti-nazi. and they have a museum dedicated to villabont who is, to me, one of the person i have the most respect for, actually. he was a very decent man. a good man. so i saw all that, and that i realized that you cannot -- you know, people are, you know -- generations follow generations and they're not fenecessarily t same. and the germans, today, i think are not the germans of yesterye yesteryear. and we can see that with angela merkel who is opening her borders and receiving all these immigrants now. you know, it's a totally differe

reporter: this is east berlin. alexander likes this historic area where hisis grandmother lived. >> this is my home. i grew up here. this is where i went to school. about a kilometer away is where i graduated high school. this is what i know and love. phil: he received a letter informing him that all the units in his apartment building will be sold. there are already potential buyers. >> they were foreigners from south germany, not from berlin. the potential buyers were friendly, but made it clear that they plan on living in the apartments themselves. reporter: the other renters are fighting back. if the apartments are sold individually, almost all the tenants cocould be given noticeo leave. most of them can't afford to relocate in the same neighborhood, so they y decidedo jojoin forces and find a buyer r the entire building. they are looking for an investor with a big heart. >> we want to find someone who says, i don't want the renters to have to move to the suburbs. someone who wants to give berliners a chance to

barrier was intended to stem the population drain from communist east germany to west berlin and west germany the wall formalized west berlin situation as an island in otherwise communist territory the enclave was now surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications yet west berlin remained a magnet for those wanting to escape east germany at least 136 people were tried were killed trying to cross that wall in total more than 600 people were killed trying to flee east germany the berlin wall stood for 28 years until 1909 when a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the front tier and the end of communism in central and eastern europe. during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people across the inner german border sometimes through tunnels a reporter christina caught up with one of. the best thing about jail hartmut says was being let out of his cell.

here in the city itself it proceeded to divide berlin into communist east and capitalist west and for 20 years it was the most tangible symbol of the cold war and during that time author and journalist peter schneider was one of the 1st west germans to write a novel about it 30 years ago i could have been shot to death just for standing here for space on the east side of the berlin wall it was called the death street. people risk their lives. trying to escape from the communist east so the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. the wall is about germans from both sides trying to overcome the border. mr who was in his mid forty's and on welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumps the wall heading east the guards of the other german states arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right across the way and had taken the only direct path over the wall when the b

this is style spec of plots in the fleetly signed neighborhood of east berlin alexander pushkin like this historic area the same area where his grandmother lived. from the shops this is my home because i grew up here and this is where i went to school about a kilometer away from here is where i graduated high school so i want to stay here the idea because this is what i know and love is mock the few weeks ago he received a letter informing him that all the units in his apartment building will be sold now push is afraid he will lose his home they are already potential buyers. financing is the kind of you know they were foreigners were from south germany not from berlin the potential buyers were nice and very friendly but made it clear that they plan on living in the apartments themselves. pushed and the other renters are fighting back if the apartments us sold individually almost all of the tenants could be given notice to leave most of them can't afford to relocate within the same neighborhood so the tenants decided to join forces and find it by a for the entire apartment building th

down on human rights but now we are similarto crack down on human rights but now we are similar to east berlin in the last century and the need to work to support ourselves, and people around the world might be afraid of whether beijing will decide to send the liberation army declare the protests, we need a world leader to speak up and pay attention to hong kong. the need to put the focus on hong kong and urge beijing do not send pla to clear our peaceful protest. just briefly, remind us what your demands are? you want to see the extradition bill completely removed, not just see the extradition bill completely removed, notjust suspended, you wa nt to removed, notjust suspended, you want to see the resignation of carrie lam. a major demand is clear. we wa nt carrie lam. a major demand is clear. we want the government terminated and withdrawing the extradition bill in the legislative programme. at the same time, we demand the hong kong government to stop police totally —— allergy. finally, the other me up is to have free elections, we need to elect our own government, the leader of ho

in fact in 1953 communist poland renounced reparations from the then communist east germany so berlin suggested symbolic gestures instead here for example in the middle of the city there are plans for a memorial site for polish victims of the german occupation during world war 2 to be built later mousepad the young german living in warsaw actively supports this idea he believes that such political gestures could make the upcoming historical debate easier on guns which do you think this would be a very important sign of compassion. it would be a symbol of empathy for the poles and a sign that we as germans should never forget what happened. and this is why i will be here on sunday when the presidents of poland and germany remember the 80th anniversary of the german invasion. as a latin america in the struggle to deal with the high rates of violence against women that in some countries more than 50 percent of married women say they have suffered violence perpetrated by their husbands one city in northern mexico is responding with special police teams d.w.i. the sirens visit their dad th

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of the civil rights movement in former communist east germany berlin grand coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. especially are looking to the state elections with apprehension the s.p.d. is suffering from dwindling support and membership. and the c.d.u. is no longer getting through to their core voters in the east not a good sign for on the american grand coalition. the likely winners of the state elections apart from the f.t. will be the greens their forecast to get record results in both saxony and brandenburg. with just 2 days to go until those state elections that bring in our chief political editor now michelle occur finishes in the state of brandenburg for us in the small city of conics vista house and is the final day of campaigning and she's been keeping a keen eye on the a.f.d. activities michela what's going on there. oh right where i'm standing in a couple of minutes we'll see prominent figures from the f.t. get to the stage and speak to a couple of 100 people gathered here but a significant proportion of them are actually from the media the f.t. is certainly getting

it has taken on the slogans of the civil rights movement in former communist east germany berlin grand coalition partners the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. especially are looking to the state elections with apprehension. the s.p.d. is suffering from dwindling support and membership and the c.d.u. is no longer getting through to their core voters in the east not a good sign for angela merkel's grand coalition. the likely winners of the state elections apart from the f.t. will be the greens their forecast to get record results in both saxony and brandenburg. or they'll use chief political adviser become a curfew has been brandenburg dating the mood in the small city of koenig's best the house on the final day of campaigning. the latest poll suggests that it will be a triumph for a victory for the far right a.f.d. it triumph if it manages to beat the social democrat s.p.d. party which has been in government here since reunification for the past 3 decades a victory and it is literally anywhere near what is being addicted roundabouts 20 percent that makes it much harder to form a coalition here of

side of the berlin wall was called the street. people risk their lives trying to escape from the communist east so the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. the wall is about germans from both sides trying to overcome the border. mr cobb who was in his mid forty's and welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumped the wall heading east the guards of the other german state arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right across the way and had taken the only direct path over the wall when the book came out in 1902 the wall was already part of people's d.n.a. hardly anyone here believed that east and west germany would agree unified and most people didn't even want them to win the war. weaves together political analysis and report taj with his own youthful adventures and his complicated friendships with germ

side of the berlin wall was called the street. and. people risk their lives trying to escape from the communist east to the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. the wall is about germans from both sides trying to overcome the border. mr who was in his mid forty's and on welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumped the wall heading east the guards of the other german states arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right across the way and had taken the only direct path over the wall when the book came out in 1902 the wall was already part of people's d.n.a. hardly anyone here believed that east and west germany would agree unified and most people didn't even want them to win the war. weaves together political analysis and reports with his own youthful adventures and his complicated friendships with ger

trip told hakeem east in berlin sharon shows away says. she comes here to go for walks and relax. in the german capital she switched professions and has no desire to return to her former life as a teacher it's never you see when you take what you know the most in life and you make it that's your job because of the way you pay your bills sometimes do. you know you are not feeling like you want to play and you have to do it you know you do feel sometimes you feel that you don't want to travel then you have to do it and you have to give your best at some point i wonder through do this work in the nightlife. get to know what sharon said replace so now she also says the movie at a kiosk in bed inspected districts but has stunned that the mile apart free market has a special place in our heart because it was here tonight because before after a day i also had that interaction but through music no i was going to try to play in with that technique and wow what music i'm going to play next and what struck. me here i got. to interact more with people not and it's amazing because i give peopl