Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

Love that

Hahaha bless her. I’m there!

It’s so good!

Go check out the History Flakes pod for the whole story! 🙌

New podcast episode out this morning! Pip told me all about the life and crimes of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.

Many people know he was brought to the US and helped them get to the moon, but just how deeply involved was he was the Nazi system of terror?

Spoiler: a lot!

Berlin folk - I'm organising a trip for a group of Scottish folk (mainly pensioners) next year. Any tips on things they might not find in traditional guide books? Good restaurants, cafes, biergarten etc?

We've already got a tour with @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social on our list.

Kommunistischer Hit der DDR: "Die Partei hat immer recht" Es ist eine Hymne auf den Kommunismus: "Die Partei hat immer recht" oder auch "Das Lied der Partei" des böhmisch-deutschen Dichters Louis Fürnberg.

July 1950: the Communist hymn „Die Partei hat immer recht“ is performed for the first time in East Berlin www.deutschlandfunk.de/24-07-1950-l...

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

You were watching closely!

The algorithm gods are giving this one a good run - people like it, I think! It’s a mix of history and looking at ruins and new apartments and there’s some sock-in-sandal action too

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Schade!

Ever wondered what I’d sound like if I were a German robot?

*Sound on*

There’s a new auto-dubbing feature feature on YouTube… 😬

Yes!

S3E8: Klaus Fuchs: WW2 Nuclear Weapons Physicist and Spy - History Flakes - The Berlin History Podcast Excellent at mathematics, physics, and possibly even better at being an all round nice guy. Jonny tells us about the life of Klaus Fuchs and his roll in the melodrama of THE BOMB in 1945. Fleeing the ...

Link for you: www.buzzsprout.com/2333641/epis...

New History Flakes pod out today. Nazis, Commies, WW2, nuclear weapons, spies, and even QUEBEC. Klaus Fuchs’ story
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Inside a private apartment building no less!

Black Sabbath’s last ever show in Germany (I think?), June 2016.

Watched the stream of his final ever-ever show the other day.

That concerted raised over £100m for Birmingham. Amazing. What a way to go.

Not unexpected, but still shit.

RIP Ozzy.

YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours Inside Hitler’s 1936 Olympic Village (Then and Now)

Check it out in my latest YouTube video here: youtu.be/ANfAoNOGppU

Did you know that there’s an entire secret museum at the old 1936 Olympic village?

I sure didn’t.

I came across it by complete chance A couple of weeks ago.

The site is constantly changing. A few years ago it was all abandoned, now there’s modern housing there among the ruins…

That performance with 11 players would be no problem

ENG-GER final? 👀

Was absolutely amazing!

An arbitrary rule and a chance to ruin someone’s’s day: jackpot for this chap. Hope you had a nice time regardless.

Germans miss no opportunity to be angry and give shitty service. As a bathroom attendant why on earth would you care?!

I’m not sure if you’re serious or not, but I’m a tour guide, you know that, right?

Why the one window? Maybe *they* get bathrooms and we don’t?!? Turns out Honecker’s daughter’s bathroom window is nothing more than a rumour.

I knew the story but it wasn’t until I found @iamkosmonaut.bsky.social’s blog that I found out what’s behind the window… just a different floor layout 😅

History Flakes: Live at Berlin Fringe - Comedy Café Berlin The Life and times of Wilhelm II, Kaiser Bill, Wilhelm, von Gottes Gnaden König von Preußen, Old Iron Bollocks. (One of these has been made up, but can you spot...

🎟️ Get your tickets here! 👇

Plans this Sunday evening? Like to both laugh and learn?

Pip and I will be hosting a live recording of our Berlin history podcast, History Flakes!

Would be cool af to see you there 🙏

🎟️ link to tickets below 👇

Victory by technicality 🙏