The Berlin Wall: East Germany turned into a Prison State | Fat Electrician | History Teacher Reacts

hey there happy New Year I'm Mr Terry I'm a high school history teacher welcome back to another history teacher reacts video all right we're headed back to the fat electrician because he has uploaded his weekly video and it looks like he's continuing on his anti-communist Arc because this video is titled the Berlin Wall how communism turned East Germany into a prison State all right so I'm excited to learn more about the Berlin Wall in the way that only the fat electrician can by the way to all channel members you now have Early Access to videos because YouTube just launched a feature that can allow channel members to see videos before they publicly release so keep an eye out for that all right this original video is going to be linked down below fat electrician's a big friend of the channel so make sure you support him all right let's get started you know the Berlin Wall is such a fascinating thing for me to teach during the um you know Cold War unit because it kind of serves as this interesting like physical representation of the Cold War and then when it comes down it was like a physical collapse of what's going to be the col collapse of the Soviet Union as a whole anyway all right glad to hear or I'm happy and excited to hear his his uh telling of the story and hopefully I can add some stuff on the way people are probably going to get mad and call this video propaganda but in my defense it's not my fault the only thing you have to do to make anti-communist propaganda is to open a history book and start reading it out loud wallet is one of the greatest examples of capitalism versus communism East versus West hungry versus fed that the world has ever seen but first to word from our sponsor this video is brought to you by operation good boy it's a monthly subscription box it's got all kinds of good oh man Frankie needs that are you okay don't puke in my office please oh he's a good boy yeah you're going to get a treat in a second don't puke he's a good boy all I is 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pounds of Supply watch that whole video I'll have that linked right hereo that you need right after World War II Germany was basically split into two pieces you had the Western Powers America the UK and France important to note that that decision was made even before the war had ended um they basically don't want this to be this thing where it's like first to take Germany uh here in World War II gets to rule Germany they didn't want to do that so they split it up beforehand the Western half of Germany and he had the USSR controlling weird they did the same exact thing with the city of Berlin where the West controlled the Western half and the USSR controlled the eastern half except Berlin was 100 miles into the USSR territory and this is and it just because the Berlin had been the epicenter so it probably wasn't fair for one city or sorry one uh Ally to just you know totally control the epicenter of Germany although power is going to be shifting you're going to see to the West in places like Munich as time goes on because it's about to get nuts in Berlin why the block off West Berlin and tried to force them to join because they didn't want a little speck of capitalism in their communist Utopia but the West is about to back down from a challenge so America and the UK team up Wonder powers activate they launched the Berlin airlift they feed an entire city using nothing but cargo planes and after 15 months the USSR is finally forced to end the blockade because they can't afford to try to stop them anymore so in 1949 the roads and Railways to West Berlin open back up and everything goes back to working exactly how it was supposed to and this is where the story really begins from 1949 to 1951 we had what was known as a green border between East and West Germany basically there was a border there they're two separate countries however it was very very easy to go from one country to the other and back it was no big de at all which and that was necessary because people lived and you know worked on different sides of those of those borders right could cut people off from their careers and their families it was really important because you have to remember they just drew an arbitrary line right through the middle of Germany and were're like hey these are two separate countries now it was really complicated for a lot of people you had people that had family members that now live in a different country you had people whose home was in one country and job was in the other you had farmers and property owners that now owned property in a country that they didn't live in it was very very complicated and while the border is essentially open a ton of people from East Germany are Tak and it wasn't it wasn't supposed to necessarily be like that at least that was the impression the Western allies got from Joseph Stalin um from there but I mean it turned but very quickly you're going to see it with uh what's going to be happening is that military presence that Stalin had a had agreed as a part of this to vacate these these countries um maintained itself and then and eventually going to get political puppets and stuff like that and that that brought in the whole Iron Curtain idea the Soviet Union had put down this hard line through the continent of Europe that basically this Eastern side would be this communist Empire almost like the Soviet Union um and to rebuild it that way now Stalin's defense was uh well look at the last two Wars um we have a right to be able to defend ourselves right create a buffer zone if you will because these last two Wars Russ Russia has been invaded by the West so he had a strong point there and it definitely uh you know sold people on uh Soviets and stuff so anyway that was the defense for taking and migrating to West Germany because it's way way better to live in West Germany where the evil capitalist pigs from America atast have been funneling in billions of dollars worth of food money and resources helping to build W Germany back up as a country as opposed to the USSR over in East Germany who has done the exact opposite because they said hey we want our reparations and we want them right now the USSR now um one reason why the West Was building so fast was the Marshall Plan United States was pumping billions of dollars um into rebuilding Germany which also included Western Berlin um that the United States wanted to put a good face on Western Berlin because that's literally where you know they can go toe-to-toe with the Soviets here and defend this ideological battle that's now happening between capitalism and communism United States wanted to put a good face in there and were pumping insane amounts of money into the West way more than the Soviet Union could uh could do on their side which meant the economic growth job growth is all in the west and as you can imagine people from the East are going to be moving to the west and that doesn't look very good for um uh East East Berlin takes over 10 billion doll worth of hard assets and natural resources out of the East German economy and ships it back home that is a third of the working capital of the entire country quite literally just took a third of their economy got rid of it if that wasn't bad enough they also liquidated almost every Factory in East Germany they took all of the Machinery all the parts all the material that they had and shipped it back home to the USSR not only have they stripped East Germany of all of their product they've stripped them of their ability to produce they can't even work themselves out of this difficult situation this doesn't this sound so much like Treaty of Versailles and The Taking of the Rin land um the Western allies took the Rin land and made it a dilit Zone for the economic production because along the rine there is a ton of industrial production and it was seen as a form of reparation so the Soviet Union is doing the same exact thing the Allies did to Germany in World War I because of this I did not know to the extent though that he was talking about there that's so people start leaving East Germany in droves Now by 1952 the USSR identifies this problem understanding oh [ __ ] obviously our policies aren't very popular we should probably do something about that the only question is what are we going to do about it do we a come up with new policies that incentivize people to stay making them want to be there and making them want to be a productive member of the society well let's remember how much economic damage the Soviet Union had in their 20 million Deads their whole whole generation is dead um you could see why economically I guess they're going to you know stay in these regions again like like East Germany uh to rebuild and they're going to need to way more than other you know anyone else that fought in World War II in Europe no absolutely not we're going to go with option b Old Reliable good oldfashioned human rights violations okay so here's the plan we're going to shut down the border between East and West Germany we're going to build a wall or a fence and I know what you're thinking walls don't work well if the wall doesn't work you know what is going to work the landmines that we put on the other side of it and if that doesn't work we're going to get guard dogs and if the guard dogs don't work we're going to put up a bunch of guard towers and we're going to have over 20,000 men with guns watching The Border 24/7 all the time and they have the authority to shoot anyone try to escape on site now and I'm sure he'll get into it but the the fortifications of the wall changed a lot over time they became more fortified over time um at first it was a very well he'll get to it but you'll see it wasn't very strong I guess you would say obviously there's one glaring hole in this plan what if somebody is able to get past the wall navigate through a Minefield evade the dogs and they get seen by the guard but because the guard is an East German and he probably doesn't want to be in East German either what if the guard just doesn't shoot him and lets him go over to West Germany well that's where the giant sand pit comes in we're going to line the entire border between EAS West Germany with a 30 foot wide pad of sand Berlin not not all of Germany this way but Berlin yeah be able to see any Footprints when somebody runs out of East Germany into the West we're going to know that somebody escaped and we're going to hold the guard on duty for that sector responsible and then he's going to get in trouble having a very secure border isn't a h violation well right when you're using it to keep people out but when you're using it to keep people in it's absolutely a human rights violation according to the universal Declaration of Human Rights however the well yeah that that wasn't what they the the you know Soviet puppet puppets here were were saying the point of the wall was the point of the wall they said was for defense right um so that East Berlin doesn't get invaded they said it was a defense right not necessar about keeping people out or keep people in but keeping their enemy out but it did both let me just read that for you Article 13 section 2 quote everyone has the right to leave any country including his own and return to his country technically I guess he's not leaving entire country into a prison and refusing to let anyone leave while you oppress them is in fact a human right however to be completely intellectually honest I do have to tell you that the Soviet Union is one of only three nations that refused to sign the universal Declaration of Human Rights and they refused to sign it specifically because of Article 13 section two was was West Berlin technically considered Western Germany or just a western administered part of East Germany I actually don't know what the actual legal definition I guess was it it probably is considered like West Germany anyway help me out with that one which I just read to you they basically said that they would only consider signing it if this was added to the end of Article 13 quote in accordance with with the procedure laid down in each country end quote they were unanimously declined because that would ruin the entire point of Article 13 which would basically just mean that um yeah you have a human right to leave a country unless that country tells you you can't so what's the point of even having that as a human right so the border is pretty much completely shut down the only exceptions to that are the fact that you can apply for a Visa to leave East Germany however it's very expensive you get interrog by the government actually get these visas awarded to them are people are working on behalf of the Communist party or somebody that is obscenely Rich and is for sure coming back anyways which seems like a weird hypocritical policy for a Communist Regime whose ultimate goal is to have a moneyless classless society where everybody is treated equally to have but whatever and um okay so he was he was jumping back and forth between like Berlin and then Germany as a whole you know what a lot of people ended up doing was since it was hard to leave East Germany to West Germany what um countries would do or people would do was go to one of the other states like what maybe Czechoslovakia or something like that I forget which other ones where it was a lot easier to maybe like get on a plane or uh find a way out of you know out of uh across the Iron Curtain if you will I know that became very problematic but then of course they have to allow travel from West Germany into West Berlin and to do that there's very very strict routes anybody traveling from West Germany to West go straight from one straight to the other and they hit multiple checkpoints Ong the way and this is extremely important because it opens up the Berlin loophole because Berlin the city that's 100 miles into communist territory has that little speck of capitalism in it and there's no border between West Berlin and East Berlin so you can literally just walk from East Berlin right into West Berlin and it's not an issue at all so that becomes the only way to escape East Germany people travel to East Berlin and then simply walk into West Berlin and then they catch a car or a train or a bus from West Berlin to West Germany and and then they never go back and between 1952 and 1961 somewhere between 2 and 4 million people do this bear in mind East Germany only has a population of 17 million that's over 20% of the population walks into West Berlin and never comes back important to note that um among many of those people were a lot of Highly Educated and highly skilled professionals Engineers doctors and stuff like that some very important people that saw the economic growth happening in the West so you know they were losing essential absolutely like essential um high-skilled workers in that as well and of the people that did leave they were disproportionately young highly skilled highly intelligent people like doctors lawyers skilled Tradesmen engineers and because of this got the nickname the brain drain so 1961 the US this is a humongous problem all the young smart people are leaving we got to do something about this should we I don't know incentivize highly successful young people to want to stay here nah break out Old Reliable more human rights violations for everybody money resources middle of the night a bunch of East German construction workers and cops show up with guns and they put a fence all the way around West Berlin not to keep the West berliners in but to keep the East berliners out like I said though they what they said like publicly though is it was a defense against a western you know West Berlin AKA just Western in a way by the way West West Berlin was very much controlled by the Americans um the British and you know the French had in phon Slayer but remember they were so economically devastated from the war that United States definitely put in you know the big a lot of a lot of most of the work there so really it was like an inv preventing an invasion of the Americans East and West Berlin at this point in time were still very much interwined there were people that lived in the East and worked in the west and vice versa and there were people that had family members on one side or the other side and there were people that owned businesses and property there were people that were seeing relatives and got separated from their families and they weren't allowed to get back on the other side of the wall there were literally thousands of people in Berlin that woke up one day and it was just like congratulations you just lost your job you just lost your property you lost your business you're now separated from your family because of this people started trying to break into West Berlin or they were breaking out into East Berlin to get people and bring them back into West Berlin at first it was easy because it was just a fence and you could cut your way through it you could scale it but that fence rapidly turned into a 12T High concrete wall and then when people and they started doing it by the way um it was like cinder blocks at first and I believe they started doing it in the middle of the night I I don't remember the day exactly but I don't know if it was like a Sunday night I forget exactly what day be out was like in the middle of the night where people literally woke up to the wall probably did that on purpose too you know before the morning commutes and all that people started bringing ladders to scale over the top of it they added a gigantic round metal top to it so there was nothing to grip and pull yourself over and then they added barb wire and guard towers and guards that were allowed to shoot you on site and turned it into a full-on demarcation line around West Berlin and that is when the Escape attempts got incredibly creative one of the more popular ones at the very beginning was that somebody from West Berlin would remove the gas from their car and they would just have a little one gon jug for gas just enough gas to drive into East Berlin pick somebody up and drive back to the west and the person would be strapped up underneath the car where the G gas tank was supposed to be but figured that out and then they had the guards at every checkpoint before a car could go into West Berlin they would take a flexible metal wire and shove it down into where the gas tank should be to make sure it was in fact a gas tank so then that plan was out so one guy decided he was going to take his BMW ietta cut the roof off and then he was just going to drive right underneath the checkpoint going full speed and he was going to duck and that's how he was going to break into West Berlin and that's exactly what he did and because of this the East Germans added spike strips and Bar barricades to every checkpoint every time somebody escaped into West Berlin the Communist fixed however it was possible they made it more and more difficult and the Escape attempts got more and more creative some of my personal favorites include shooting a steel cable over the wall from a high building and then ziplining having some from W get a cow costume and tow a cattle trailer into e Berlin and then have two of his friends dress up in the cow costume and stand in the cattle trailer as they made it through the checkpoint stealing tank and trying to drive it through the wall and when you got away from the Berlin Wall itself and you actually went to the east and west German border the Escape attempts got even crazier one group of brothers took a farmer's crop duster painted it like a Soviet Mig plane flew it from West Germany into East Germany picked up their other brother and flew him back and my absolute personal favorite escape from communism was when two fathers got together and for a year and a half gathered Fabric and propane and supplies so that they could build a [ __ ] hot air balloon to escape to West Germany okay I'm going to say that again but a little bit slower eight people two families two fathers two mothers and four children it's like that wouldn't be hard to notice like look there they go we'll just shoot him down or what you know escaped communism using a hot airb you understand the gravity of what I've just told you because as a husband and a dad it speaks volumes to me that two men in my situation got together looked around and said these living conditions are so horrific that the best bet for me and you and all is to secretly gather up a bunch of cotton fabric AKA flammable [ __ ] sew it into a balloon attach it to a wicker basket more flammable [ __ ] and then Propel it with a [ __ ] flamethrower as we try to get away as fast as the wind will take us while the guards are shooting at us okay okay that's way down my list of like things that I would be trying to do okay I would rather do the the car thing that he was saying um they also try to build uh were digging tunnels under it too hey look all I'm saying is I've never seen anybody that determined to escape capitalism it's all I'm saying B but that's not real communism B of course it's not because it's never real communism whenever something goes bad but whenever something goes bad under capitalism it's 100% capitalism's fault and we should get rid of it and do communism instead granted communism every other time we've tried it's ended in genocide and murder and human rights violations but hey I'm feeling it this time guys we're just like we're this close just one maybe two more genocides and we're going to have that communist Utopia we should keep trying I can't I need a beer Jesus sorry I got carried away I apologize anyways the wall around Berlin gets more and more impenetrable and eventually the only way to actually Escape into West Berlin is to dig a tunnel and crawl your way out which a ton of people did now obviously this is a PR nightmare the Communists have to explain to everybody why on Earth they block walked off West Berlin and they're not letting anybody through and because of that they decide to give the Berlin Wall their name the anti-fascist ram party obious they were so good they were so good the Soviet Union is is like top tier like propagandists they are top tier they know how to name something and defend it and rationalize it it's like yeah you just throwing a word fascism right we just got invaded by fascism to protect future invasions right now like I said before the strongest argument they ever had to defending you know militarizing their borders right was World War I and two right so now we're just adding on top of it referring to Nazis which makes this I believe one of the first historical appearances of the unfortunately still prevalent line of thinking that anybody that disagrees with me or how I live my life or my politics must be a Nazi yeah that was the official stance of the Soviet Union basically accusing every Western power of being a fascist saying they buil toote protect against fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people despite the fact that the apparent will of the people was to leave their Communist Regime but whatever just excuse me one more time I'm so sorry I just have to Google something real quick um how to recognize a cult absolute authoritarianism without accountability check uh zero tolerance for CR communism as a cult now like getting arrested for political joks uh lack of meaningful Financial disclosure Budget Check unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions check okay sorry anyways back to the video despite all the propaganda saying the West was lit think bring and a ton of them still tried to escape to the West over the duration of the Berlin Wall over a 100,000 people would be captured and imprison for either telling political jokes criticizing the government or attempting to escape in just a couple years by 196 notorious for anything Soviet controlled was um control of uh media um newspapers you know everything was was nationalized that way political prisoners were starting to stack up really really quickly and the USSR had to do something about it because it was costing the money and the prisons were full and they had to get rid of all these people so I mean what's a Communist Regime to do well that's easy we've got all these prisoners that we don't want they don't want to be here let's Ransom them over to the west and that's exactly what they do they ransomed 33,000 police itical prisoners to the west and the West paid on average 4,000 deut marks per person I say on average because it wasn't a static price the USSR put different values on different people based on their skills and job set for example a general labor might only that's that's not class L if they're all the same if they all different prices not class L 100 D marks whereas a doctor could bring 15,000 now granted I'm probably reading way too far into this but I do find it tiny bit hypocritical that the communist government the same government that supposedly is striving to create a moneyless classless society where everybody is equal is also taking political prisoners assigning different values on their life based on their ability to produce an economic output because they know that's not what the capitalists would say the capitalists would very much um uh divide them by their economic value and a capitalist system that's the thing though almost like they might say well we believe they're equal but it sure doesn't seem like you guys are so you guys would you're the ones that uh are going to be dividing people so you know they're trying to make money where they can they're putting them into separate classes implying that some people are worth more than others and then they're turning around and trying to sell them to another government for money which is allegedly something else they don't want which is you know weird it's almost like it's all a bunch of talking points and [ __ ] so they can have a bunch of control I can do this all day how how long what is it going to take to convince you that communism is [ __ ] tell me I'll do it your hon I object and why is that Mr re because it's devastating to my case do we give the whole marks would not have liked stalinism thing do we have to go down that overruled good call in addition to the 33,000 lennin didn't like Stalin remember that deathbed he's like hey whatever you do don't let Stalin get into Power political prisoners at the USSR essentially auctioned off for money they also agreed to release 215 for the low low price of 2.3 billion deuts marks between 1945 and 1989 over 600 Germans were killed either trying to cross the border from east to west Germany or from east to west Berlin and that is considered to be a very low very conservative number because the USSR didn't want to release the actual numbers or ad because every single person they killed trying to escape communism was was a huge political hit to them which raises the question what happened in 1989 well that's the best part of the whole story by 1989 the Soviet don't want to interject I want to step on his foot corrupt they were beginning to crumble they were losing their sphere of influence and more and more civil unrest started to occur and by November of 1989 in East Germany there were protests people demanding that they had the freedom of speech the freedom of expression the ability to critique their government without getting arrested and most importantly the freedom of travel the let's talk 80s um ' 80s was interesting time for the Soviet Union um the arms race heated it up again when Reagan came into um the presidency in 80 he really tried to amp that up and one of the things is the arms race uh started ticking up again so more like Atomic weapons are being uh are being built and that was a financial strain you know U especially for the Soviet Union the Soviet Union just didn't have the GDP and stuff that that like the United States had and they were spending the Soviet Union was spending a higher percentage of their income on Atomic weapons to be able to keep up and even though for a long time they actually had more of those weapons than the United States that was economically bad um also Chernobyl 86 right Chernobyl disaster was a PR nightmare um for them as well and the E economic uh cost of that was massive um we still don't know really a lot of the effects of that both economically and environmentally that actually happened in the death of people and all that that stuff has been very much locked down starting to get out a little bit more more and more details coming out but those were a couple events just by the way um before that then these to add on to what he's saying which is there's protests in all the different satellite States and uh Eastern Europe so you know the 80s was a very transformative time plus you're going to get the Gorbachev stuff so uh ending uh you know trying to reform the Soviet Union while trying to keep the sense of of of Soviet communism was the goal of mik Gorbachev but he also was a reformist right so big thing was ending censorship right uh glass no um openness as it was called and kind of lifting the lid of censorship to let the opinions of the citizens come out more which ended up being kind of a can of worms once it was let out people wanted more and more of those you know freedoms and then uh the parist the restructuring of the government um the command economy of the Soviet Union was so inefficient to have everything run by the strict government structure of ruling over everything and actually doing that the antisocial stuff which was take away the power of the workers and the factories and all that stuff you know trying to to do that but what that ended up doing is just leading to people wanting more and more reforms and more dissent and then also the hardcore communist Soviet Union are going to not like Gorbachev but then then there's the people that thought he wasn't going far enough so basically nobody liked him and people wanted him out and you know the rest is history so government give the people an inch before the people turned around and took a mile and the one inch they were willing to give them was they were going to get rid of the travel ban and finally start granting people visas they weren't going to charge them money they weren't going to have to have some special circumstance to do it and most importantly they were actually going to approve people and they were going to do it quickly these new travel regulations were drafted on November 8th they were going to be announced to the public on November 9th on live TV and on November 10th they would go into effect and people could show up to the passport office apply and ideally get accepted and have the freedom to travel West and that's kind of what happened November 8th the new regulations get drafted that's fine November 9th they hand the new regulations to a government spokes Shi and he's going to read them on a government press conference on live TV he didn't have time to read through all the papers nobody took the time to explain it to him so on live TV he just kind of wings it do it live just here the new rules that we're living by and everybody's like pretty happy about it and one journalist asks when does this go into effect and Gunter not having time to have read through all the papers kind of shuffles through them real quick looking for an effective date and which he doesn't see one it's there he just doesn't see it so he just kind of shrugs and he's like as far as I know quote immediately without delay I knew it was before like it was supposed to I don't know like so and with that going out on TV East Germans got up and started going to the wall now this announcement was at the and what's great is I'm sure you'll get to it the people are like we're not just going to like go to the wall and try to find checkpoints like we're going to break them mother down so let's bring our sledgehammers it sounds like a storming of the bastile from the French Revolution kind of thing like they want a piece of this as end of a boring government press conference so not a lot of people saw it but then the news outlets started picking it up and they started airing it both in East and West Germany and then even more people started showing up on both sides of the wall and then even though the all the date was supposed to be the next day um the guards there I believe just were like whatever we not going to enforce this this would be stupid within just a few hours tens of thousands of people had shown up to Checkpoint Charlie one of the main checkpoints for the Berlin Wall to go from east to west and they demanded to be let go because they had just been told by their government on live TV that they had the freedom of track and the guards had no idea what was going on and they were outnumbered tens of thousands to one and eventually the guards were forced to Simply let people through and then words spread that they actually let them through and all of Berlin both East and West came out and had basically the biggest block party the world time City that divided in half for 28 years was finally reunited this is one of those moments where like when this came down if you're my age right um and you know your parents lived through the entire Cold War right the entire thing and their whole lives was about communism and its threat and the Red Scare and all that stuff this was such a huge moment was one of those things like I think this is a memory of mine right uh been very young but like it's one of those things where your parents are like you go get the kids and watch this cuz it was on news that night like because it was you know night our time it was in the day their time like bring in the kids and I feel like I have that memory I hope that's not something I made up but of like like seeing that and it may have been true um as an early memory but anyway it was it was people then around the world knew that this was a big moment right and people saw that right around the corner here this is this is going to be the end of the Cold War and it was true within the next year or two it's officially over the uh dissolution of the sov and then they celebrated this reunification by tearing down the wall that had separated them for so long in conclusion Germany after World War II is the closest thing to a controlled experiment that you can have pitting capitalism against commun to see which one would Triumph in real life they took one country with one people divided it down the middle and gave each a set of rules to live by and while capitalism is far from perfect and it has a ton of things that we can improve upon I think the results of this experiment speak for themselves thank you for watching best way to support the channel is go by some merch at the fat electrician. comom quack bang out out all right final thoughts before we head out so again I like to I like to say in my classes that you know Berlin is a microcosm of the Cold War as a whole so where the two sides put their best foot on you know put their best foot in not the right terminology but you know what I mean put their best face on for sure um to try to show the best of this philosophical battle that's going on here so anyways I I I was of course able to learn a bunch of new things hope hopefully I was able to add some other things thanks again to Fat electrician for being so supportive of my channel came on to my charity stream made a donation been helping me out with other stuff we've been talking uh good friend of the channel so please make sure that you are subbed over to him um over there this video is linked down below and with that we'll see youall next time [Music] bye