Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is a national symbol and one of Berlin's best-known landmarks. Like no other structure, it reflects Germany's turbulent past.
Why does this edifice captivate Germans? This History Stories Special delves into the gate's eventful history and reveals its innermost secrets. We feature people whose lives on both sides of the Iron Curtain were connected to the Brandenburg Gate in a special way.

00:00 What is the Brandenburg Gate?
03:35 The Gate during the cold war
09:05 How the Gate came to be in the 18th century
11:20 The Gate from the inside
13:30 How Napoleon took the Quadriga to France
15:50 The Gate between Emperors and Revolutionists in the 19th and 20th century
19:20 The Gate during the Nazi Era and the second world war
23:32 The Gate during the cold war part 2
35:40 The Gate during the fall of the Berlin Wall
39:40 The Gate gets renovated
40:58 The Gate today

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