04.Mai.1987
- 4 year old woman Trauzettel hid her son Mike was in a big shopping bag on a shopping scooter (the head of the boys with only a towel, cover). Both managed to escape to the West, because the woman had a permit for a short stay in the West and in these affairs, rarely controls existed. Later, they were no longer referred to in the West.
1987
- Helke Dittrich, 25, hid inside of two superposed inside hollow surfboards. Your friend Werner Ulrich, 27 years, drove the Renault Fuego, strapped to the rack, the boards were safely across the border. Flight was successful!
15.August.1961
- The First People's Army jumped across the border (barbed wire). He was shot accidentally and this photo went around the world (many East Germans were then to have border guards with the hope of greater opportunities to escape.)
23.November.1961
-. "Delay in Marie Born" A 20 year old jumped
and a U.S. Militärszug on, he smashed the Discs and asked other passengers for help and support. The Soviets realized this immediately and wanted to search the train. Only after 16Std. Stay at Marie Born gave the U.S. military commission after long discussions with the Soviets at the man them. The flight had failed.
18.April.1962
- Klaus Brüske wanted to drive through his truck loaded with refugees from the border. In the busy Kugelhag s, they were arrested.
1962 - A man was to send a friend a uniform from the BDR - it was perfect. He studied the Soviet greeting, until he also was perfect. Finally, he simply maschierte in the West.
12.Mai.1963
- 12 East Berlin, try a Berlin bus ride through the border. They come in a hail of bullets and stop - they give up. Four of them are seriously injured. The escape fails.
17.September.1963
- A postal worker flees with two friends in a truck. They rush through three barbed wire fences and crash into the door of a West Berlin hotel. This plan may fail.
1964 - In the smallest cars, "Isetta" hiding nine refugees, where else are heating and battery. Managed to escape, because nobody controls this type of car, because it seemed impossible for there to hide people.
1964 -1969
- Kurt Wordel smuggled in his three car `s the type of VW 1200 a total of 400 people enter. They held on in the trunk or in hiding since removed.
1964 - The largest mass exodus resulted in a self-dug tunnel, that was 45m long and 12m went in depth. The entry was a toilet house in the backyard of East Berlin and the exit was in the basement of a disused bakery (hired by the initiator) in West Berlin. After half a year of hard work, finally, 57 people escape through this tunnel.
09.September.1968
- Bernd Böttger, 28 years, builds from a bicycle auxiliary engine is a mini-submarine and was to move to Denmark across the Baltic Sea (25km in 5h.). From a West German company, the inventor immediately set to develop a production model that should be for emergency services revolution.
1970 - A Frenchman tinkers his bride a hiding place of two suitcases. The Frenchman and his friends took the train west. The girlfriend got out and crawled to her hiding place, where they 70min. had to stay until they were all in the West.
1971 - A 24-year-old girl climbed during a relocation of an acquaintance in the West, in his music chest. By happy coincidence it was overlooked at the border control. No one knew of her action, which succeeded.
1977 - The Dutch singer Theodorus Kerk, which was very popular everywhere, wanted to help his friend Renate Hagen to come to the West. He hid the artist in one of the speakers. The border guards paid no attention to the speakers, because the man was very famous, and managed to escape.
1979 - Two families fled in a hot air balloon in the West. The builder was suitable to all knowledge but through literature and even tested different materials and fuel materials. In 28min. put them back 40 kilometers, and reached their destination safely.
-just in a house in Bernauer Strasse to the border with West wants an old woman to flee out the window and it results in a scrum between East and West police, while the woman hanging in the air. A Ostpolizist fires a Rauchpatronesab, which the woman is dropped and the West dies.
-Dieter Jentzen, a 25-year-old People's Army, jumped from 8 m high in the West. He retired to serious foot injuries and was 2 years in the West in the hospital.
of herring-People's Army fled with her three armored cars. They were heavily armed. They knew where the bodies were in need of repair at the border and raced so through the barbed wire in the West.
-A Artist pulling himself with a wooden rack in a 11000V loaded transmission line
along the west. There sprang 12m height, and he broke both arms but was able to escape.
-Another man hid in the belly of a Plasikkuh, which was transported as an exhibit to the West. The man went unnoticed, was his escape.
-a 23 year old man smuggled his 17 year old girlfriend in a cable drum in the West. The flight was successful, but the girl returned to the pleas and pressure from his parents back in the East. For them, the incident had no consequences, but so was the means of escape revealed.
-When the flight waves got bigger, they let metal tip mats on the floor wall adjacent houses and water Who interpret which caused many serious injuries. A diver, however, "operated" just a piece of this mat out, so about 14 people managed to escape under water. was
prosecution of refugees The Penal Code (StGB) of 1975, there are three paragraphs that dealt with the problem:
§ 254 - desertion
- This was only for members of the military.
Man committed desertion, that leaving the service, the troops or another for the specific location or stayed away from him, in order to evade military service. The result was 1-6 years imprisonment, in particular serious cases, 2-10 years in prison particularly serious cases, if were conducted by at least two people deserting, they leave the GDR, or wanted to stay in it. Preparation and testing of desertion were punishable.
§ 213 - illegal border crossing
- The unlawful leaving the territory of the GDR was punished with 1-2 years in prison (on probation), a fine or a public censure. In severe cases, it was even 1-5 years imprisonment, but only if the border was damaged equipment, carried or used tools were forged identity cards or border if step documents or have been abused or if so already had a criminal record.
preparation and trial of this was punishable by law.
-1986 some changes in § 213
- It was considered a violation of law, if you passed the state border illegally or not in due time returned to East Germany. Preparation and trial were liable to prosecution. The result could have up to 2 years in prison and in severe cases, 1-8 years in prison, the preparation you will be charged when we played with the idea to leave the GDR and those held in some form / pronunciation, or if you were caught in the restricted zone . If you shot at one border or fought with other weapons against the arrest could lead to life imprisonment.
§ 105 - anti-state Trafficking
- Someone who helped citizens of the GDR in a State-lying areas to move, they displaced, is discharged or prevented their return, was punishable by a minimum of 2 years imprisonment, in serious cases you could also get a life sentence. All in all, many successful escapes, while many victims have been required.
A major problem was that when a failed escape the same time their method / means of escape became known and were therefore the safety system and controls at borders, but also strengthened in general, and it became increasingly difficult over time to escape. But in the emergency situation, people were most creative and courageous. But without the help and protection of West Berlin / - Police / - border guards would have failed more refugees. For no sooner had both legs in the West could now expect security and support.
Source: salvator.net (abstract)
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