The hasty and fearful whisper code word "Tokyo" was the key concept of the successful escape tunnel project in the Cold War - the password for entry into the wild. Between 3 and 5 October 1964 and crawled crawled 57 people underground from east to west - 10 meters below ground and above all under the wall. 30 students had dug this 145 meter long tunnel.
was one of them Dr. Peter Schulenburg (70), then a 24-year-old law student. "As long as it stood, I felt the wall as a grave injustice," he says today. "Germany was for me one." With this motivation in Schulenburg involved in several tunnels - from idealism, without financial interests, just like all his colleagues. "Well," he says today with a smile. "A little adventure was also included." Recruited by a fellow student is Schulenburg. The company is perfectly planned. Wolfgang Fuchs, head of the group rented, to a vacant bakery in Bernauer Strasse 97th There, the men begin to dig. 90 centimeters high, 80 inches wide of the mines. "We have been lying on his back and pushed the spade with his feet in the concrete floor. It was hard work," says Schulenberg. They create only a few meters a day.
"We dug at the top. It was hard work."
The earth is stored in the premises of the bakery. For days diving from Schulenburg and his friends in the underground world. "The hardest part was always inventing excuses for my girlfriend. She could not hear of it, it was all very conspiratorial."
CDU finance-related stakeholders with the company. On 3 October - after a half year construction time - managed to break - in the outhouse in the backyard of the house Strelitzer 55th Street Couriers deliver the message to those who want to flee. 200 were on the waiting list, we now know. Exactly the right moment and with no luggage, not to attract attention, get people into the house in the street Strelitzer 55 and get to freedom - trembling, dirty, happy.
But even on 5 October by 0.07 clock appear GDR soldiers - the tunnel is blown. Pop shots. The East German officer Egon Schultz is hit in the shoulder - with a bullet from the rifle of the escape helper Christian Zobel. He crashed to the ground and is hit again, this time fatal - the bullets come from the weapon of another soldier. This is confirmed by the forensic autopsy report. But the East German propaganda ignored the truth, makes a very different story from them. "West Berlin front city bandits" Schultz had "treacherously murdered," announces the East Berlin news agency.
Egon Schultz is the state hero. Schools, children's and holiday homes are named after him, the road is renamed Strelitzer Egon Schultz-street, in front of the house number 55 will be held parades.
The lie of the East German soldiers assassinated
first with opening the files is in the early 90's the truth. Christian Zobel was there already dead - died in the belief that he killed a man.
Peter Schulenburg is also working to further discovery of the tunnel as a courier, travels again and again to East Berlin. On 25 February 1965 it is expected by the state security at the border crossing at Heinrich-Heine-street and arrested. The regime makes him the process. Judgement: six Year sentence for "incitement to escape from the Republic in coincidence with seditious acts of violence." He comes into the prison to Brandenburg. "Very depressing," he recalls, "was this time." But his friends in the West to drop him and to obtain as part of a prisoner exchange for his release. He returns to West Berlin, where he still works as a lawyer. His conclusion: "It was highly risky, we did that we have done the right thing, I am now convinced yet.."
Source: bz-berlin.de
was one of them Dr. Peter Schulenburg (70), then a 24-year-old law student. "As long as it stood, I felt the wall as a grave injustice," he says today. "Germany was for me one." With this motivation in Schulenburg involved in several tunnels - from idealism, without financial interests, just like all his colleagues. "Well," he says today with a smile. "A little adventure was also included." Recruited by a fellow student is Schulenburg. The company is perfectly planned. Wolfgang Fuchs, head of the group rented, to a vacant bakery in Bernauer Strasse 97th There, the men begin to dig. 90 centimeters high, 80 inches wide of the mines. "We have been lying on his back and pushed the spade with his feet in the concrete floor. It was hard work," says Schulenberg. They create only a few meters a day.
"We dug at the top. It was hard work."
The earth is stored in the premises of the bakery. For days diving from Schulenburg and his friends in the underground world. "The hardest part was always inventing excuses for my girlfriend. She could not hear of it, it was all very conspiratorial."
CDU finance-related stakeholders with the company. On 3 October - after a half year construction time - managed to break - in the outhouse in the backyard of the house Strelitzer 55th Street Couriers deliver the message to those who want to flee. 200 were on the waiting list, we now know. Exactly the right moment and with no luggage, not to attract attention, get people into the house in the street Strelitzer 55 and get to freedom - trembling, dirty, happy.
But even on 5 October by 0.07 clock appear GDR soldiers - the tunnel is blown. Pop shots. The East German officer Egon Schultz is hit in the shoulder - with a bullet from the rifle of the escape helper Christian Zobel. He crashed to the ground and is hit again, this time fatal - the bullets come from the weapon of another soldier. This is confirmed by the forensic autopsy report. But the East German propaganda ignored the truth, makes a very different story from them. "West Berlin front city bandits" Schultz had "treacherously murdered," announces the East Berlin news agency.
Egon Schultz is the state hero. Schools, children's and holiday homes are named after him, the road is renamed Strelitzer Egon Schultz-street, in front of the house number 55 will be held parades.
The lie of the East German soldiers assassinated
first with opening the files is in the early 90's the truth. Christian Zobel was there already dead - died in the belief that he killed a man.
Peter Schulenburg is also working to further discovery of the tunnel as a courier, travels again and again to East Berlin. On 25 February 1965 it is expected by the state security at the border crossing at Heinrich-Heine-street and arrested. The regime makes him the process. Judgement: six Year sentence for "incitement to escape from the Republic in coincidence with seditious acts of violence." He comes into the prison to Brandenburg. "Very depressing," he recalls, "was this time." But his friends in the West to drop him and to obtain as part of a prisoner exchange for his release. He returns to West Berlin, where he still works as a lawyer. His conclusion: "It was highly risky, we did that we have done the right thing, I am now convinced yet.."
Source: bz-berlin.de
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