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  2. Escape from East Berlin - Wikipedia

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    Escape from East Berlin is a 1962 American-West German thriller film that was directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann and Werner Klemperer. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Dieter Bartels and Ted Haworth.

  3. Unternehmen Reisebüro - Wikipedia

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    The Unternehmen Reisebüro, also known as the Girrmann Group, was one of the first and most influential groups helping people escape from East Berlin during the Cold War. It was started by students from the Free University of Berlin, and located in the "House of the Future". The founders of the group were three law students, including Detlef ...

  4. Escape attempts and victims of the inner German border

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    In 1961, 8,507 people fled across the border, most of them through West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall that year reduced the number of escapees by 75% to around 2,300 per annum for the rest of the decade. The Wall changed Berlin from being one of the easiest places to cross the border, from the East, to one of the most difficult. [1]

  5. Killing of Peter Fechter - Wikipedia

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    Fechter's body lying next to the Berlin Wall after being shot in 1962 while trying to escape to the West. On 17 August 1962, around one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik attempted to flee from East Germany.

  6. Wolfgang Engels - Wikipedia

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    Wolfgang Engels (born 1943) is a former civilian employee of the East German National People's Army, employed as a car mechanic and driver, who in 1963 used a stolen BTR-152 armoured personnel carrier to escape to West Germany by breaking through the Berlin Wall. [1]

  7. East Germany balloon escape - Wikipedia

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    On 16 September 1979, eight people from two families escaped from East Germany by crossing the border into West Germany at night in a homemade hot air balloon.The unique feat was the result of over a year and a half of preparations involving three different balloons, various modifications, and a first, unsuccessful attempt.

  8. Rudolf Urban (Berlin Wall victim) - Wikipedia

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    On the evening of August 18, five days after the erection of the Berlin Wall, the entrance door, and the escape route to West Berlin was bricked and sealed, with alternate entrances established but leading to East Berlin. According to his wife Ilse, this was the deciding factor for her husband, who was previously hesitant about leaving East Berlin.

  9. East Berlin - Wikipedia

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    East Berlin (German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ⓘ) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin .