GDR - Escape Attempts

31.07.1961 - GDR citizens carry only few belongings as they flee to West Berlin after it became known, that GDR is separating East Berlin from West Berlin with barbed road blocks and walls sinc...
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12.05.1963 - GDR border police forces carry off an injured person fthat failed to escape in a bus through the Berlin Wall, GDR, 12 May 1963. The bus got stuck just before the border bar as bord...
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12.05.1963 - GDR border police forces eye a bus that failed to escape through the Berlin Wall, GDR, 12 May 1963. The bus got stuck just before the border bar as border police forces had opened...
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12.05.1963 - GDR border police forces eye a bus that failed to escape through the Berlin Wall, GDR, 12 May 1963. The bus got stuck just before the border bar as border police forces had opened...
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31.07.1962 - Five defendants, three West- and two East Berliners, sit in the dock of GDR's supreme court in East Berlin, GDR, ini August 1962. They are accused of having prepared the escape of...
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05.10.1964 - Blick in den Tunnelschacht im Keller eines Westberliner Grenzhauses im Bezirk Wedding, aufgenommen am 05.10.1964. Links im Schacht ein Luftrohr, oben eine Flaschenzug mit Seilwinde...
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31.07.1967 - Map of the Czechoslovakian-Austrian border river March in 1976. Three GDR refugees escaped to Austria, together with fourth Richard Schlenz who was fatally wounded, via Czechoslova...
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22.05.1964 - West German Wolfram Bickerich (R) and his East German fiancee Hanna Vogel (L) smile at each other in West Germany, 22 May 1964. Bickerich has brought his fiancee to West Germany in...
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05.12.1961 - Reporters interview some of the refugees at the police station in Berlin-Spandau, Harry Deterling can be seen in the back corner. East German train driver Harry Deterling broke th...
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29.08.1986 - The lorry of Martina Ley and Hans-Joachim Pofahl pictured at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, 29 August 1986. The two of them and their child smashed with a gravel lorry thro...
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29.08.1986 - Martina Ley (L) and Hans-Joachim Pofahl (R) pose at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, 29 August 1986. The two of them and their child smashed with a gravel lorry through the b...
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29.04.1982 - Three GDR citizens escaped with a bulldozer from Magdeburg, GDR, to Grasleben, Germany, 29 April 1982. They smashed through a fence of the GDR border installations standing the fir...
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29.04.1982 - Three GDR citizens escaped with a bulldozer from Magdeburg, GDR, to Grasleben, Germany, 29 April 1982. They smashed through a fence of the GDR border installations standing the fir...
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06.12.1968 - GDR refugee Bernd Boettger poses in his diving-suit and his mini submarine in Schoeneberg, Germany, 06 December 1968. The 28-year-old swam in the night from 08 to 09 September 1968...
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17.09.1979 - (L-R) Doris, Andreas and Hans-Peter Strelzik, Frank Strelzik and Petra and Andreas Wetzel pose in Naila, Federal Germany, 17 September 1979. The two families accomplished a daredev...
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31.08.1961 - An elderly woman tries to escape through her window to reach the street underneath, which is part of West Berlin in Berlin, GDR, 31 August 1961. Some men try to pull her back into...
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14.08.1961 - Menschen, denen am Wochenende des Mauerbaus die Flucht geglückt war oder die sich in West-Berlin aufgehalten hatten, stehen am 14. August 1961 im Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde Schla...
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30.11.1999 - The undated picture shows Michael Gartenschlaeger, who was gunned down by GDR broder forces on 30 April 1976.
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17.08.1962 - Peter Fechter bleeds to death next to the Berlin Wall after being shot by GDR border troops in Berlin, on August 17th 1962.
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15.08.1961 - A couple arrives wet and with no belongings but happy to have fled from the GDR to West Berlin, Germany, 15 August 1961. Supervised by armed forces of the GDR, the errection of roa...
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26.05.1989 - West German police officers strip down a microlight that landed in front of the Reichstag building in West Berlin, Germany, 26 May 1989. The mysterious escape of a GDR citizen with...
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31.12.1962 - View from a cellar on a tunnel that West Berlin escape agents digged under the Berlin Wall in November 1963. A group of people digged a 145-metres long tunnel under the Berlin Wall...
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25.10.1979 - The hot-air balloon that two GDR families fled with to Naila, Germany, in September 1979.
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31.12.1963 - West Berlin escape agent Wolfgang Fuchs pictured while digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in November 1963. A group of people digged a 145-metres long tunnel under the Berlin W...
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30.11.1960 - Two West Berliner helpers carry one of the escaping women to safety in Berlin, 1961. Three East Berliners had broken a hole into the walled up cellar door of their house which stoo...
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12.05.1963 - ARCHIV: Der in der Mauer steckengebliebene Bus. Am 12.05.1963 scheiterte der Versuch, mit einem Bus die Sperrmauer an der Sandkrugbrücke im britischen Sektor von Berlin zu durchbre...
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29.04.1982 - Three GDR citizens fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in a bulldozer on 29 April 1982. They broke through the GDR border fortifications near the village of Grasleben near Helm...
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29.04.1982 - Three GDR citizens fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in a bulldozer on 29 April 1982. They broke through the GDR border fortifications near the village of Grasleben near Helm...
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16.05.2022 - Gedenkort für Mauertote, Ebertstraße, Tiergarten, Mitte, Berlin, Deutschland
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06.12.2021 - Grafik-Illustration Nr. 103441, Querformat 135 x 110 mm, "Illustration des Fluchtautos mit Versteck für Flüchtling"; Grafik: A. Brühl, Redaktion: M. Lorenz
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01.03.1962 - Gedenkstätte für einen unbekannten Flüchtling aus der DDR am Kiehlufer in Berlin, Deutschland 1962. Memorial for the unknown refugee from GDR at Kiehlufer street in Berlin, Germany...
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29.09.2005 - Visitors to the Berlin Wall memorial of Marie Elisabeth Lueders House eye a body count in Berlin, Germany, 29 September 2005. Photo: Felix Heyder
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21.04.2011 - A commemorative plaque in the ground of the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin is reminiscent of an attempt to escape over the Wall on August 19, 1961, taken on 04/...
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17.08.1962 - On 17 August 1962, two policemen of the People's Police of the GDR (Vopos) carry the corpse of Peter Fechter away from the Berlin wall crossing the Zimmerstraße. The People's Polic...
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