Divided Berlin: Ghost Stations

When the Berlin Wall was erected, what happened to the train stations? After all, the lines had been built well before the concept of the Cold War, much less an East Berlin and West Berlin.
Thank you to Jonny, ‪@whitlamsberlintours‬, for providing me with b-roll used in this video!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Background
1:12 Security and Preventing Escape
2:39 The S-Bahn
4:12 The Weird Status Quo
Sources used in this video include:
- Bernd Kuhlmann, “Deutsche Reichsbahn in West Berlin,” Transpress, 2020.
- Sälter, Gerhard, and Tina Schaller, “Fluchtversuche durch die S- und U-Bahn-Tunnel,” in Grenz- und geisterbahnhöfe im Geteilten Berlin. Ch. Links, 2013.
- Christoph Gunkel, "Berlins verbotene Geisterbahnhöfe," Spiegel Geschichte, 15.01.2014
- "Einweisung von GM "Otto Bohl" in die Benutzung einer "Materialschleuse" am S-Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, " Stasi-Mediathek, BStU, MfS, GH, Nr. 2/70, Bl. 212.

[@gabby.rockwell]

Great video - informative and funny. Personally a fan on the beach ball globe in the back too

[@deniz6358]

I expect it to have a way bigger amount of views

[@sonjamikaela1277]

i expected this to have way more views, what the heck