Berlin / Friedberg She's bleeding from the scalp, because it's been stuck with the hair on the barbed wire between East and West Berlin. And yet she smiles. A young assistant, the 20-year-old, following the successful escape from the GDR straight away to safety. A happy attractive couple, so it seems. This image of 1961 is larger than life in the Wall Museum in Berlin to see. The dramatic escape scene has gone before in the newsreels, is often seen in television documentaries and part of movies. For the media, the wife was the "bride" of the smugglers. But the picture is only half the story.
Brian Kynaston - now living in Friedberg - has seen the smugglers for the first time at the border. And their luck is about the successful flight passed quickly. For you real man has done it as planned, after coming to the two young children. So the young mother is soon to be East Berlin, returned to her family and there has experienced harassment.
But first things first: The young family lived in 1961 with Brigitte in the small apartment of her mother in Berlin-Pankow. Only one room there was the couple for herself and her three year old son and baby Jörg Andreas. The husband was a crossover. He worked at Telefunken in West Berlin and lived in East Berlin. The aim was the West. There the family also managed by and by everything they had acquired, over at Aunt Else: To her family transported in a stroller including china, linen and an expanded set floor lamp. "We thought we have all the time," recalls Brian Kynaston. On the eve of the planned crossing of the border, the family already had three years with her aunt in Jörg West. Ironically, on 13 August 1961 was the couple with the five-month-old baby behind: It was just by chance the day on which the border was closed down. With "anger" and "hate" Brian Kynaston describes her feelings at the time. For them it was inconceivable that it would take 28 years to the Wall. After a few days brought back Aunt Else son Jörg in the East. The family was planning
continue to flee. was demolished in the summer house of a friend at the border, was found on 25 September 1961 the opportunity: As smugglers in the west of the head-high barbed wire cuts, Brigitte Kynaston is described with a friend. "Run her go, we come to," was the command of the men and the women ran. Today's Erin Friedberg believes he has not heard the sound of someone by inviting a gun. "There were only 50 to 80 meters. But seemed endless, "she recalls. The East Berlin woman came up to the barbed wire and was hanging there with the hair. Smugglers, they moved across. Her husband could not follow her. Because checkpoint taken a position, he managed to escape with the two young children was too risky.
For Brigitte Kynaston two weeks followed in the refugee camp in Berlin and with relatives in Bavaria. At first she was still hoping for a family reunion, but sat himself a deadline. Because it was clear: "I can not stand it without my children. A mother can not leave their children alone. "So she went back voluntarily after a brief stopover in the West to East Germany. The western boundary is still asked: "Are you crazy?" In the GDR, followed three months She was convicted of prison escape from the Republic. That the two year sentence was suspended on probation, had to thank Brian Kynaston fortunate circumstances: among other things, was because her husband asked a technician, and because of the small children. Complete surprise to her family returned to the offender ". Then we have a round of howls"
Only after the Berlin Wall was able to leave the GDR Brigitte Kynaston. As a retiree, she moved to Bavaria in 2000, first to Eurasburg, 2006, by Friedberg. By the way, the smugglers Günter Jacobsen, who took them in 1961 in the arms, met Brian Kynaston recently in Berlin for the first time in 48 years.
Source: Augsburger allgemeine.de
Brian Kynaston - now living in Friedberg - has seen the smugglers for the first time at the border. And their luck is about the successful flight passed quickly. For you real man has done it as planned, after coming to the two young children. So the young mother is soon to be East Berlin, returned to her family and there has experienced harassment.
But first things first: The young family lived in 1961 with Brigitte in the small apartment of her mother in Berlin-Pankow. Only one room there was the couple for herself and her three year old son and baby Jörg Andreas. The husband was a crossover. He worked at Telefunken in West Berlin and lived in East Berlin. The aim was the West. There the family also managed by and by everything they had acquired, over at Aunt Else: To her family transported in a stroller including china, linen and an expanded set floor lamp. "We thought we have all the time," recalls Brian Kynaston. On the eve of the planned crossing of the border, the family already had three years with her aunt in Jörg West. Ironically, on 13 August 1961 was the couple with the five-month-old baby behind: It was just by chance the day on which the border was closed down. With "anger" and "hate" Brian Kynaston describes her feelings at the time. For them it was inconceivable that it would take 28 years to the Wall. After a few days brought back Aunt Else son Jörg in the East. The family was planning
continue to flee. was demolished in the summer house of a friend at the border, was found on 25 September 1961 the opportunity: As smugglers in the west of the head-high barbed wire cuts, Brigitte Kynaston is described with a friend. "Run her go, we come to," was the command of the men and the women ran. Today's Erin Friedberg believes he has not heard the sound of someone by inviting a gun. "There were only 50 to 80 meters. But seemed endless, "she recalls. The East Berlin woman came up to the barbed wire and was hanging there with the hair. Smugglers, they moved across. Her husband could not follow her. Because checkpoint taken a position, he managed to escape with the two young children was too risky.
For Brigitte Kynaston two weeks followed in the refugee camp in Berlin and with relatives in Bavaria. At first she was still hoping for a family reunion, but sat himself a deadline. Because it was clear: "I can not stand it without my children. A mother can not leave their children alone. "So she went back voluntarily after a brief stopover in the West to East Germany. The western boundary is still asked: "Are you crazy?" In the GDR, followed three months She was convicted of prison escape from the Republic. That the two year sentence was suspended on probation, had to thank Brian Kynaston fortunate circumstances: among other things, was because her husband asked a technician, and because of the small children. Complete surprise to her family returned to the offender ". Then we have a round of howls"
Only after the Berlin Wall was able to leave the GDR Brigitte Kynaston. As a retiree, she moved to Bavaria in 2000, first to Eurasburg, 2006, by Friedberg. By the way, the smugglers Günter Jacobsen, who took them in 1961 in the arms, met Brian Kynaston recently in Berlin for the first time in 48 years.
Source: Augsburger allgemeine.de
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