Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

Me too. Was surprised how janky the new behaviour was. New OS feels like change for the sake of it - or for the marketing dept. I guess

Screenshot behaviour was changed in the new iphone OS, which has made it difficult to take and share multiple screenshots. If you’ve also noticed this and find it annoying, you can change it back to the old method by switching “Full Screen Previews” off👇

List of researchers focusing on the German Democratic Republic
go.bsky.app/drcrDK
#DDR #GDR #RDA #EastGermany

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YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours The WWI memorial Hitler used for Nazi Propoganda: The Neue Wache

My latest long format video is all about the Neue Wache. Enjoy!

Yes, the thumbnail is… a choice… but you’ve got to fight for clicks over there! There’s a LOT more to the place (and the video) than him.
youtu.be/-IGMBXSDnCs

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His wife and daughter would be killed in Theresienstadt. They’re buried together in the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery in Lichtenberg.

Friedrich Simon Archenhold, born in 1861, founded the Archenhold Observatory in Treptower Park in 1896, home to the “Celestial Cannon,” the world’s longest moveable telescope - it’s still there today! He died #otd 1939 after being forced out of his career under the Nazis.

In my experience it’s interchangeable with test

Perfect update. Enjoyed that!

Dropping soon 👌🏻 Shoot me a DM if youre interested, though a page will be up on the website soon.

Oooooooh!

My review of autumn: fuck yeah!

Good morning from the Prinzenstrasse Frog Prince 👋

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12 October 1988: in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Erich Honecker opens the 3 millionth new flat to be opened in East Germany since a housing policy decision was announced by the SED in 1971 (via Bundesarchiv)

😬 that queue is sometimes huuuuuuge - what I find weird is the automatic machines are never on for the EU passport people.

“Many of whom are now dead” is the part that always gets me.

I didn’t think the queues at BER could get worse 😬 good luck, mate!

Glad you’re looked after. I try to not remind mine that I exist 🙃

Thousands of job losses I guess is the reason. It really irks me that we pay for all of the various marketing departments, offices etc. of all these krankenkassen wherein none of the workers do a single thing to improve our health. Awful. Best not to think about it I suppose.

Would’ve been so much better if it was where they’d made Nazis fight bears (no weapons, one on one, naked)

😂 fair enough!

I have not once engaged with a part of the healthcare bureaucracy in this country that I think makes sense. So much of it is keeping people in pointless jobs, which is why it is eye-wateringly expensive.

…are you a (fellow) King Gizzard fan??

Two of the original bears were gifts from Bern!

Thank you!

Berlin’s Nazi-era bear pit saw live bears on display in a public park until 2015. The Bärenzwinger opened in 1939 with four bears, was damaged in the war, and rebuilt in 1949. When the last bear, Schnute, died in 2015 the former pit was converted into an art space.

Also, dead goat

Nice day out in Potsdam. The ‘Roman ruins’ in the distance are a folly masking a reservoir. Water was supposed to flow from there into the fountains of the Sans Souci gardens, which didn’t really work. A pumping station (designed to look like a mosque) was later built to solve the problem.

I’ve never known anyone to be so excited about… Lichtenberg

Oh nice one, but as always I'm in a rush. No time for coordination of that sort, much too quick and freewheeling for this town haha