Part of my Cold War series: is a sort of "Battlefield Tour".. by using present day and archival footage, also British Army Information films. In this video I'm going to reconstruct of the experience of using the Transit West Berlin Corridor across the Inner German Border and the Berlin Wall from the BDR to West Berlin during of the last years of The Cold War (1987-1989) before the Soviet union collapse of 1991.

Soviet Union and East German nostalgia for veterans, education for millenials... Europe really was like this once!!

The West Berlin Transit Corridor was the only authorised route the Soviet and East German Authorities permitted for Allied Military and vetted West German to citizens travel between West Germany and West Berlin during The Cold War and Division of Germany. It was a nerve racking experience passing through a the Communist Totalitarian state of East Germany, and for military travellers, being on your own travelling through "enemy territory"

The journey starts off in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, with a visit to 246 Provost Company Royal Military Police, AutoBahn Control Detachment. Entering East Germany via Allied Checkpoint Alpha near helmstedt, then across the fearsome Inner German Border Death Strip. It covers the actions at the DDR/Soviet Border station at Marienborn. The threats encountered from The Stasi and the DDR VolksPolizei.

Finally arriving at Allied Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden in Berlin, with its famous WW2 Soviet War Memorial (Panzerdenkmal)

Chapters:

3:40 Helmstedt
4:29 RMP ACD Visit
5:16 Soviet Contacts Security Brief
8:20 Checkpoint Alpha
14:50 The DDR Marienborn Border Station
22:43 The Stasi / VoPo
29:41 Checkpoint Bravo

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