Why is there a BLANK space in this map of East Berlin?

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This East German map from 1988 has a great gaping hole where West Berlin should be. Mark and Jay discover that this map with a gap is not "wrong", and it's certainly not unique.

Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN and MARK COOPER-JONES

Edited by
JAY FOREMAN

Directed by
PAUL KENDLER

Cameras and sound by
JESS LAMB
ROBIN KAY
MATT WARD
EMMA LANGLEY

Facilities provided by
SHIFT 4

[Daoibhéar]

Mark can draw a wizard, but not a rough map of Great Britain.

[AnonYmous-xsnx]

"The Berlin Wall came down in 1989 in a classic episode of news."
I lost it.
And I subscribed.

[casey]

For some reason I utterly lost it on "I've drawn a wizard"

[zachclayton]

"I've drawn a wizard" never gets old, even when I know it's coming 😂 you can tell they cut the video as fast as possible because they were holding back laughter

[gerdforster]

The one thing you wouldn't see in West Berlin before 1990, no matter whether you were from East or West Germany, were Lufthansa planes at the airports.
German airlines were not allowed to fly to Berlin (which is one of the reasons why East Berlin's airport was built outside the actual city).

[PHILTente]

a map that would contain all of the information of a place would be the place itselfe

[FUZxxl]

Interestingly, the map is actually wrong: Eastern German maps were always a bit distorted to make it hard for people to plan escapes into the West.

[theguyinthefunnyhat]

I completely lost it on the "I won't let the cartographers in!"

[thirdvectr]

Map men: "Now, all the people of the world can go wherever they please!"


Me, sat watching youtube in my underpants in quarentine: D:

[TRRailfan]

THE INTRO HAD 3 “MEN” INSTEAD OF 2
ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL US THAT YOU’RE BEING HELD HOSTAGE??

[jacefairis]

Rules of maps:

1) No map is wrong

2) No map is right

3) All map is map

[MrNUKECOW]

This channel is the most wonderful thing ever, never stop... Ever

[gruffyddgozali]

And this map makes it looks like there's nothing in Greenland... oh

[janwitkowsky]

As a Greenlandic person, I smile with glee every time you geographical gentlemen refer to my home country.

You cartographic chaps do have a wonderful sense of humor, to which I find myself chuckling from time to time.

[HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

I turned on English captions when he was speaking German and the captions were in...

German...

[mnmnmnmnmn]

“Today, all the people of the world can go wherever they please, and everything is fine”
As someone existing in April 2020, I feel attacked.

[LeaAddams]

"Oh! Whither are the buildings?"

"What? I have received a blue dot?"

Great German you have there. :P

[siddhartht]

"All the people can go wherever they please, and everything is fine"
2020: How bout NO?

[Syfoll]

"I won't let the cartographers in"

[alexandersmith]

Please tell the director that having Mark subtly re-join Jay after having "been in Berlin" so as to re-situate Mark's position in the viewer's mind is an invisible tour de force of direction. 👏