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Seb Downie-Blackwell @downieseb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Follow Jonny for all things Berlin history as it's as important as ever in Germany to understand our present by understanding our past x

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The (kind of) hidden grave of one of history’s greatest monsters, Reinhard Heydrich 👇

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How to flirt like it’s the ‘20s… Guest star Podcast Pip and I had a bit of fun with this one 😇

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today’s warning was for lightning. Fair. When the weather can zap you to death, a warning is ok.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s now 2 warnings. 31°. Hot yes, but also…. August?!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another day, another warning. I don’t think we need warnings for 32.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Deutsche Wetterdienst have a severe weather warning every single day. Today, there is a bit of drizzle.

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deedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Lovely surprise this morning when I heard Pip and @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social discussing the Rosa Luxemburg tour we arranged for the Book Club! Have a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5lJp...

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S4E9: Rosa Luxemburg Part 1. From Warsaw to Zurich.

History Flakes - The Berlin History Podcast · Episode

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Weird thing is I looked for this recently and didn’t find it 😂

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The square square named “square” and why the square isn’t called “square” anymore 👇

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Some emails hit harder 😅 2x 250kg WWII bombs are being detonated outside Oranienburg on Wednesday 🤯

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fasho refreshment? Karl Flach tried to convince Germans Coca Cola was run by Jews in Nazi Germany. Patriotic Germans would drink his Afri Cola brand instead. …well, it didn’t work out like that for Mr Flach in the end.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Early morning heron action yesterday. Getting a jog in before the 29° hit. Glad it’s over for a couple of days!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Is it ever ok to pretend to need a wheelchair? Well, maybe…

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De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Third time’s a charm - Aller guten Dinge sind drei 😊 Unser Autor Ilja Nieuwland erneut im Gespräch mit #Youtuber @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbe7... Für alle die Lesen möchten worüber beide sprechen, hier geht's zum Buch: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

37 today! After spending 3 years building my one man show I’ve been taking it a bit slower this year. While I’m proud of what I’ve built it took a lot of work, and I let my fitness go by the wayside for a while. Since November I’ve lost over 8kg and got into both weights and running.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Quite surreal to walk past Dussmann and see my own book in the window!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

How Germany came to be: Bismarck, war, war, another war, and a great big stick covered in gold 👇 youtu.be/m9ggKDvvqb4

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Why Berlin's Golden Column Exists

YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

On this day in 1936, German troops marched into the Rhineland. This was celebrated by Hitler in his fig-leaf parliament inside the Krolloper, in one of the few times it would meet. Here’s my video on the Krolloper for (a lot) more: youtu.be/3RI3V_kzqWY?...

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Hitler's Illusion of Democracy

YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Bullet hole Tuesday 💥 I mean, that’s not a thing, but I can’t always think of something to say

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Look I’m as happy to catch up on curling once every 4 years as the next person, but 4 concurrent curling streams is just too much curling no offence to your national sport @downieseb.bsky.social 🥌👈

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I had to add the arrow because otherwise you’d just say to yourself “well, not that handsome man?” and not realise I’m talking about the building 👇 youtu.be/7E1yMLPP9iw

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East Berlin Was Beautiful, Actually

YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

15 February 1950: the removal of the monument to Kaiser Wilhelm from in front of Berlin's Schloss (via Bundesarchiv)

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I was invited on @lbc.co.uk with Matthew Wright this morning to chat about the IOC’s baffling decision to sell t-shirts commemorating the 1936 Olympics. I suggested it was weird to make, sell, buy, and wear them. Crazy, I know.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Had no idea, but am not surprised, that the bicycle food delivery business completely stinks. If you order from Uber Eats, Wolt or the like, watch this so you're at least informed.

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How Indian students end up exploited in Germany | Business Beyond

YouTube video by DW News

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Talking Stasi with Stasi expert Stasi Steve 👇 According to one commenter, Keir Starmer's government is *exactly the same* as the Stasi. So, you know, there's that. (in case it's not abundantly clear I do not endorse that viewpoint)

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Were one in six people somehow working for the Stasi? No. But the myth persists. I talked all things Stasi with expert Steve Ewin in my latest YouTube video.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Privately, Kennedy accepted that the Wall stemmed the refugee flow from East to West, and he chose not to challenge it militarily despite public condemnation. Two years later, to raise morale in Germany during the Cold War, Kennedy made a visit to West Berlin that became one his defining moments 👇

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A few dozen people were born in the Reichstag in 1943 - their mothers walked from the Charité maternity ward, over the river, and into the (relative) safety of the Reichstag’s cellars during a time when Berlin was being bombed often & heavily by the RAF.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

People chilling on top of the Berlin Wall right next to the Reichstag the day after it came down

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Did you know? The statues that decorate Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Schlossbrücke tell a little story 👇

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