In Search of Clues
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A 301
After August 13, 1961, people from East and West Berlin came to the Wall again and again. They wanted to see this...
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A 302
Early in the morning on March 17, 1964, an unidentified person succeeded in fleeing to the West at Gartenstraße. Either...
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A 303
Horst Walter K. approached the border strip early in the morning on September 13, 1966. After reaching the inner wall,...
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A 304
On October 26, 1962, two young men in their early twenties managed to flee over the Wall at the Sophien parish...
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A 305
The only building between Bergstraße and Gartenstraße to have survived the war was already evacuated of its residents...
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A 306
East German border guards arrested Erich-Klaus D. on Gartenstraße on September 22, 1970 as he tried to escape.
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A 307
Graves on the Sophien parish cemetery were continually moved to make room for the border fortifications. The first...
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A 308
On October 29, 1966, Siegfried J., who had just moved from the West to East Berlin in 1965, tried to enter into West...
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A 309
On April 2, 1977, an unknown person was arrested at Gartenstraße while trying to flee.
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A 310
Bodo H. was arrested on April 15, 1966 for “violation of the border regulations” because he had entered the Sophien...
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A 311
On February 16, 1962, border guard sergeant Egon Z. succeeded in fleeing to the West with his sister and her friend...
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A 312
On January 18, 1974, Karl-Heinz M. was arrested by border soldiers within the border strip while trying to escape. He...
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A 313
On December 29, 1961, the border guard Alfred Sch. was assigned with two other guards to keep surveillance on the...
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A 314
Not all fugitives who had to give up their escape attempt were arrested. A man on Gartenstraße was observed by border...
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A 315
Uwe W. observed the border fortifications from the building at Gartenstraße 26 in preparation of his escape. He worked...
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A 316
For different reasons, a number of people from West Berlin also tried to get over the Wall. On February 29, 1964, an...
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A 317
On New Year’s Eve 1965, Hartmut B. and Günter M, two border soldiers posted at Gartenstraße, decided to flee. They ran...
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A 318
Helmut P. tried to reach the West through the Sophien parish cemetery because the cemetery offered him cover. Two...
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A 319
Wolfgang A. was arrested while tending to a grave at the Sophien parish cemetery because he did not have a “grave...
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A 320
An unknown person was arrested by border soldiers while trying to escape.
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A 321
Winfried T. was arrested when he wanted to visit his girlfriend at Gartenstraße 85. The building was situated within...
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A 322
On October 22, 1961, the private Werner K. was assigned as dog handler to the Sophien parish cemetery where he was...
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A 323
Karl-Heinz Br. and Gerd W. tried to flee across the Sophien parish cemetery in October 1969. They had already passed...
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A 324
Jörg H. climbed over the cemetery wall onto the cemetery grounds at Ackerstraße and was approaching the inner wall in...
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A 325
From December 1964 to November 1965, just in the area between Bergstraße and Gartenstraße, nine people were arrested...
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A 326
On his birthday, May 19, 1966, Peter St. tried to reach the West from the Sophien parish cemetery. He lost his wallet,...
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A 327
Private Manfred H. was arrested by his own comrades late in the evening of June 20, 1963 because he entered the grounds...
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A 328
On June 18, 1985, three people were arrested by the East German police on Gartenstraße near the border strip because...
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A 329
On November 21, 1966, Dieter D. was observed by border soldiers as he climbed over the first barrier fence. He was...
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A 330
Jaschkowitz family gravesite.The family residing at Rosenthaler Straße 19 included two Jewish men, Max und David. Their...
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B 331
The construction of the Berlin Wall evoked anger and outrage among residents on both sides of the city. In West Berlin...
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B 332
At around 1:30 a.m. on August 30, 1961, Hannelore B., Margot St. and Ursula S. fled from an apartment at Bernauer...
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B 333
At midday on August 19, 1961, two unknown persons slid down a rope from the first floor of the corner building at...
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B 334
Bernd B. tried to climb over the Wall near the Reconciliation Church on the night of July 7, 1968.
He approached the...
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B 335
A family fled from the first floor of the building at Bernauer Straße 10, probably on August 24, 1961. A couple and...
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B 336
On January 29, 1962 a young man fled from the attic of the building at Bernauer Straße 13. Dressed as a chimney...
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B 337
At midday on December 6, 1961, Private K. was on duty at Strelitzer Straße. He stood directly in front of the Wall. His...
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B 338
Hildegard K. worked as a singer for East German radio. The religious mother of four children risked losing her job...
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B 339
Gerd Sch. almost succeeded in fleeing to the West on August 17, 1962, but was apprehended by border guards just before...
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B 340
On August 13, 1961, the border fortifications on Ackerstraße consisted only of loosely laidout rolls of barbed wire. A...
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B 341
Heinz V. had just about completed his doctorate degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin by summer 1961. He had...
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B 342
Border soldiers arrested Martin M. during an escape attempt on April 25, 1980. He had climbed over the inner wall on...
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B 343
At around 4 a.m. on August 30, 1961, five people escaped through the window of the building at Bernauer Straße 2.
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B 344
A few days after the border was closed, the first building entrances were blocked off on Bernauer Straße to prevent...
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B 345
Following a fight with a party secretary on the evening of September 22, 1961, Horst K., who lived at Bernauer Straße...
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B 346
Following a fight with a party secretary on the evening of September 22, 1961, Horst K., who lived at Bernauer Straße...
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B 347
Wilfried K. was arrested by border guards right in front of the Wall at Ackerstraße at around 1:15 a.m. on September...
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B 348
On August 26, 1961, a woman jumped to the West from the first floor of a building at Bernauer Straße 2. The West Berlin...
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B 349
On October 17, 1961, Rudolf K., a transport worker, was assigned to assist in the apartment evictions on Bernauer...
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B 350
Monika Schaar, who originally came from East Berlin, got married on September 8, 1961. Because of the border closure,...
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B 351
Mrs. K., her daughter-in-law and her grandson fled to the West from Mrs. K.’s apartment on September 19, 1961 at...
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B 352
On September 22, 1961, the F. family fled from their third-floor apartment at Bernauer Straße 7 into the rescue net of...
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B 353
On December 5, 1961, a 27-year-old man was able to flee to the West from the first floor of the building at Bernauer...
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B 354
On the night of October 26, 1961, two men crept onto the roof of the building at Ackerstraße 41. They climbed over to...
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B 355
On the morning of October 25, 1961, residents of the building at Ackerstraße 42, which did not stand directly on the...
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B 356
In May 1962, Dieter T., who was only 18 years old, and four friends tried to flee to the West from the apartment...
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B 357
Karl-Heinz S. fled through the window of his apartment at Ackerstraße 43 around 3 a.m. on September 5, 1961, along...
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B 358
The border policeman Lutz M. fled to the West through a window at Bernauer Straße 1 on October 23, 1961. Serving duty...
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B 359
A newspaper from the West reported that in 1984 two teenagers were able to escape to the West near the Reconciliation...
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B 360
On the evening of September 25, 1961, Rudolf B. fled with his wife and son from their secondfloor apartment at...
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B 361
On the evening of August 22, 1961, a young woman, pretending to be paying a visit, was able to finagle past the...
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B 362
Border guards apprehended the apprentice Michael B. from Freital on June 9, 1981 during an escape attempt on...
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B 363
At midday on September 19, 1961, residents of the building at Ackerstraße 42 informed the border guards that they had...
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B 364
On October 7, 1961, border guards apprehended Klaus Sch., a resident of Swinemuender Straße, in the building at...
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B 365
On the morning of September 23, 1961, border guards on Ackerstraße observed a person jumping from a border house into...
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B 366
On October 15, 1961, at around 9 p.m., the nextdoor neighbor Richard S., a voluntary assistant of the East German...
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B 367
On September 19, 1961, a person fled across the rooftop of the building at Ackerstraße 42.
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B 368
After the Knittel family decided to flee from Bernauer Straße 8 on September 19, 1961, they notified the West Berlin...
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B 369
On August 11, 1971, the border troops arrested a person on Ackerstraße who was trying to escape.
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B 370
The evacuation of the border houses on Bernauer Straße began on the morning of September 24, 1961. When the eviction...
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B 371
Just after midnight on September 20, 1961, border guards watched as five fire trucks drove up to Bernauer Strasse 10...
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B 372
Heinz K. worked as a truck driver for the Murante company at Strelitzer Strasse 53. After the Wall was built, the...
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B 374
In September 1962, a border troop patrol discovered a hole in the signal fence between Ackerstrasse and the...
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B 375
Werner U. was arrested in the border area at Ackerstrasse on November 30, 1974. He was suspected of wanting to pass...
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B 376
After the Wall was built, a few people tried to escape to the West through the sewage system. On October 4, 1961,...
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B 377
Irma B. fled to the West from her apartment at Ackerstrasse 43 at about 2 a.m. on September 23, 1961. Irma B. had...
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B 378
On May 5, 1980, East German police arrested a person at Ackerstrasse who was suspected of trying to escape.
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B 379
Günter Tr. worked for the Murante company in the border area. On the morning of September 6, 1961, he arrived at work...
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B 380
Private Klaus Sch. was assigned duty at Ackerstraße on the morning of January 16, 1962. When his squad leader left to...
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B 381
Between December 1964 to November 1965, 19 people at Ackerstraße alone were arrested in connection with the border...
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B 382
When Anni M. returned from vacation on September 27, 1961, the evacuation of the border houses had already begun. She...
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B 383
On October 19, 1979, border guards arrested a person in the border area at Ackerstraße.
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B 384
To prevent further escape attempts from the border houses, the windows facing West Berlin were gradually bricked up. On...
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C 385
Gerd L. attempted to flee to the West near Brunnenstraße on January 15, 1966. He lived near the Wall on Strelitzer...
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C 386
While thousands of people in East Berlin were demonstrating for freedom and reforms in the center of East Berlin on the...
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C 387
With the help of a West Berlin fire brigade, Ella K., 69 years old, fled from her firstfloor apartment at Bernauer...
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C 388
On the evening of September 17, 1961 three people fled to the West by sliding down ropes from the corner building at...
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C 389
The East German policemen Rudolf K. and Reinhardt R. had just joined the Berlin riot police in the spring of 1961 and...
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C 390
A second wall made of concrete plates was built on September 4, 1963 to reinforce the Berlin Wall between Bernauer...
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C 391
An unknown person used a ladder to flee over the Wall at Strelitzer Straße on September 22, 1961.
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C 392
The D. family fled to the West from their firstfloor apartment at Bernauer Straße 23 on October 16, 1961. The decision...
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C 393
In the area of Brunnenstraße alone, eight people were arrested between December 1964 and November 1965 in connection...
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C 394
Just past midnight on September 23, 1961, an unknown man jumped to the West from the second-story window of a building...
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C 395
For ten days after the Wall was built, Brunnenstraße was still a border crossing. An ambulance traveling from east to...
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C 396
Max W. slid down a rope from his first-floor apartment at Bernauer Straße 24 on August 24, 1961. When the rope broke,...
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C 397
In 1962 and 1963, side and back buildings adjoined to the border houses were torn down. Border soldiers kept...
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C 398
On the evening of March 21, 1970, a 22-year-old man climbed over the inner wall on Strelitzer Straße to get to West...
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C 399
After the Wall was built, renovation work begun in the border houses was continued. A painter working at Brunnenstraße...
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C 400
On September 24, 1961 a man was able to escape from the second-story of the building at Bernauer Straße 16. The man...
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C 401
After the Wall fell on November 9, 1989, the borders to West Berlin were open to all citizens. But for a time the...
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C 402
Frank K. applied for an exit visa in March 1984. But he continued to look for ways to escape. He had been working in a...
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C 403
Bernd Sp. fled in the evening or night of November 22, 1961, unnoticed by the border guards. He approached the border...
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C 404
On the evening of November 19, 1986, Dieter H. was able to flee to the West from Brunnenstraße. The toolmaker had made...
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C 405
An unknown man was able to escape to the West at Brunnenstraße on July 24, 1984. He used a ladder to climb over the...
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C 406
A man was arrested while trying to flee at Brunnenstraße around 3:20 a.m. on July 23, 1971. The border guards were able...
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C 407
On November 4, 1961, three bor der guards assigned to duty at Brunnenstraße stood together approximately forty meters...
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C 408
After the Wall was built, a border crossing continued to exist on Brunnenstraße until August 23, 1961. Two men wearing...
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D 409
At about five o’clock in the morning on January 4, 1965, a man, approximately 25 years old, succeeded in fleeing not...
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D 410
On the evening of September 7, 1966, the border guard on Swinemünder Strasse noticed a man climbing over the inner...
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D 411
Klaus-Peter K. was arrested by border troops on December 14, 1973. He had tried to flee to West Berlin from...
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D 412
Frieda Schulze had lived at Bernauer Strasse 29 since the end of the war. In late August, just after the Wall was...
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D 413
At about one o’clock in the morning on October 27, 1968, a man used a folding ladder to climb over the inner fence that...
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D 414
Renate L., a secretary for the East-Berlin housing construction administration, was accompanied by an East Berlin...
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D 415
Ulla D. and Hans K. fled to the West on the evening of September 3, 1961. Under false pretences, they managed to pass...
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D 416
Selma P. and her son Peter W. had lived on the third floor of Bernauer Strasse 35 since the end of the war. They began...
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D 417
After the border closed on August 13, 1961, the residents of the border houses were not permitted to maintain relations...
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D 418
On the evening of September 29, 1961, a resident of Bernauer Strasse 30 reported that West Berlin police were loading...
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D 419
On the evening of August 24, 1961, Detlef M. and Herbert Z. attempted to climb over the Wall to the West at the corner...
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D 420
On June 19, 1962, West Berlin police heard three shots fired at Ruppiner Straße. Shortly thereafter cries of pain,...
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D 421
Juergen B. had already climbed over the wire fence when border guards arrested him on Ruppiner Straße on the night...
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D 422
On the morning of September 8, 1961 the photographer of an East Berlin magazine took pictures of the Wall on...
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D 423
Three young men were able to escape to the West at Ruppiner Straße on the evening of August 17, 1961. Using a truck,...
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D 424
Jan-Michael G. wanted to flee at Ruppiner Straße where gates in the inner wall and signal fence allowed border troops...
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D 425
On the afternoon of March 29, 1962, Johannes M. offered the border guard at Ruppiner Straße a thousand marks to let him...
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D 426
On the evening of May 24, 1973, Juergen B. approached the gate of the inner wall at Ruppiner Straße. He shook the gate...
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D 427
On the morning of October 3, 1962, 200 teenagers of a tour group were viewing the Berlin Wall. Six of them climbed onto...
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D 428
To create a pathway behind the border houses, border troops tore down the side wing and rear buildings along Bernauer...
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D 429
The border troops set up an observation post at Bernauer Straße 44 to enable the guards to observe activity on Bernauer...
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D 430
On the morning of September 29, 1961, Ms. K., 89 years old, was waiting for two people whom she didn’t know, who were...
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D 431
On the evening of October 6, 1961, border police arrested Anita L. and Erna M. in the attic of the building at...
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D 432
On the evening of November 10, 1983, border soldiers arrested Ronni S. in the border strip as he was trying to escape...
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D 433
On October 18, 1961, construction workers were monitored as they bricked up the windows of the building at Bernauer...
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D 434
Jörg S. decided to flee with his friends Erich E., Gerd Sch. and W. in July 1962. At the time Jörg S. was serving as a...
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D 435
On May 12, 1987, a person was arrested by border soldiers in the border strip at Swinemuender Straße after he had...
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D 436
Erich B. lived with his wife, two children and his mother-in-law at Swinemuender Straße 23. After the Wall was built,...
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D 437
In the early evening of September 2, 1961, about 200 people gathered at Swinemünder Straße and waved across the Wall to...
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D 438
Just past five o’clock in the morning on September 19, 1961, four men and a woman slid down a rope that they had...
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D 439
On August 9, 1986, to acknowledge the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall and to commemorate the division of...
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D 440
Mario E. tried to escape at Wolliner Strasse at about two o’clock in the morning on November 30, 1979. He was able to...
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D 441
Rainer P. and the former border officer Uwe W. planned their escape in May 1977. They had inspected the situation along...
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D 442
On December 16, 1966, construction workers were being monitored as they tore down the building at Bernauer Strasse 48....
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D 443
Following a fight with his wife on the evening of January 28, 1966, Manfred B. made the spontaneous decision to flee....
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D 444
According to the border troops, 31,500 people visited the viewing platform at Schwedter Strasse in 1986, an average of...
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D 445
On the afternoon of February 19, 1962, border troops discovered a hole in a bricked-up window on the first floor of the...
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D 446
The military conscripts Udo S. and Burckhardt B. were on duty at Eberswalder Strasse on March 23, 1966. They were both...
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D 447
On the afternoon of September 12, 1961, an unknown man managed to escape to the West. He had broken into the...
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D 448
On the evening of August 28, 1961, Dieter R. managed to enter the apartment of Bruno P. at Bernauer Strasse 47b without...