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102/210 Bereiche.Indd bkxxhhdd B 337 At midday on December 6, 1961, Private K. was on duty at Strelitzer Strasse. He stood directly in front West of the Wall. His guard leader was monitoring Strelitzer Strasse, sixty meters away. A screen posi- tioned between them prevented the squad leader from seeing K. when he climbed over the Wall shortly past noon. Private K. had been transferred from the riot police to border duty and was Station: Station: Station: B 331: Protest rally, 1962 B 334: Report on Bernd B.’ escape attempt. critical of the Wall because it sep- The Reconciliation Church The Suffering of the People Escaping to the West arated families. His brother and sister lived in the West. B 331 B 334 B 335 The construction of the Berlin Bernd B. tried to climb over the A family fled from the first floor of B 338 M10 Documentation Center Wall evoked anger and outrage Wall near the Reconciliation the building at Bernauer Strasse Hildegard K. worked as a singer Gedenkstätte among residents on both sides of Berliner Mauer Church on the night of July 7, 1968. 10, probably on August 24, 1961. for East German radio. The reli- Commemorative the city. In West Berlin the ongo- He approached the border strip A couple and their 14-year-old gious mother of four children Berlin Wall Memorial M column for Representation of border houses Bernauer Strasse B 379 Bernauer Strasse Representation ing resentment was specifically from the Elisabeth parish ceme- daughter slid down a rope from risked losing her job because of B 366 Rudolf Urban Representation of the border wall B 372 of border houses expressed by attacks on the for- tery and got past the signal the window. her criticism of the propaganda B 333 B 363 tifications and guards. On April 10, fence and anti-vehicle obstacle. in songs. For this reason she Section B: B 331 B 365 B 358 B 343 B 338 B 384 B 352 B 371 1962, teenagers at Acker strasse Shielded by the Reconciliation B 336 de cided to flee in summer 1961. B 340 B 344 B 336 B 346 B 357 B 348 B 332 B 359 B 360 B 382 B 349 B 350 B 351 B 345 threw stones at border guards, Church, he crawled within five On January 29, 1962 a young man She had already brought some The Destruction of the City B 380 B 367 B 377 injuring one. They reacted by meters of the Wall at which point fled from the attic of the building of her belongings to West Berlin. B 339 B 354 B 353 B 337 B 334 B 341 B 361 B 370 B 368 B 335 throwing smoke grenades over he was noticed by the border at Bernauer Strasse 13. Dressed On August 12 she sent three of her Orientation map B 347 B 364 the Wall to scare off the youths. guard on the watchtower at Acker- as a chimney sweeper, he was children to friends in the West. B 356 strasse. The guard called out to able to approach the border hous- When she learned of the border Bell Tower B 332 him and fired a warning shot. When es from the Elisabeth parish closure the next morning, she tried and incident markers Memorial A B At around 1:30 a.m. on August 30, Bernd B. responded by trying to cemetery without difficulty. The to find a way to flee with her eldest B 1961, Hannelore B., Margot St. jump onto the Wall, the border border soldiers thought he was son, Klaus-Peter. Hildegard K. Patrol road Archeological window and Ursula S. fled from an apart- soldier fired at him. Bernd B. was working there. From the attic knew that the Reconciliation ment at Bernauer Strasse 2. critically injured and dragged of Bernauer Strasse 13 he broke Church stood directly on the bor- Representation The border guard observed ob- behind the church – out of view of through a window that had al- der. After trying several times B 355 of a watchtower BT 9 jects being thrown down to the Cross of the old church C the West. After undergoing an ready been walled up and used unsuccessfully to get past the B 342 Patrol road pave ment from a window, but emergency operation in the his chimney-sweep rope to let many obstacles on the way to the B 374 was unable to see more because Police Hospital, he was handed himself down to Bernauer Strasse church, they waited in a building the West Berlin police glared over to the secret police. The uninjured. The border guard on Strelitzer Strasse for nightfall. flood lights at him. An investi ga- border soldiers involved in the posted at Bernauer Strasse 6 did They worked their way through tion found that the tenant had arrest were honored with medals not notice the escape until the backyards to the Elisabeth parish B 376 Building facade Field of rye slid down a rope with two friends. and awards. man was running across the street. cemetery. Shielded by the Field of rye Building facade Disciplinary action was taken gravestones, they crawled to the Chapel of Reconciliation B 333 against two squad leaders. Reconciliation Church, whose Watchtower Building facade Kindly supported by At midday on August 19, 1961, gate was still open to West Berlin, Column capitals of the church Border light B 383 Station: two unknown persons slid down and were able to pass through it Ackerstrasse in Divided Berlin Relics of the inner wall a rope from the first floor of without being noticed. the corner building at Acker- Ackerstrasse Representation of the signal fence Representation of “Tunnel 57”, 1964 Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur (GRW)“ strasse 43. B 339 Representation of an escape tunnel, 1964 B 336: The chimney sweeper’s escape route Gerd Sch. almost succeeded in Representation of the inner wall Representation of a “Stasi-Tunnel”, 1965 fleeing to the West on August 17, 1962, but was apprehended by border guards just before he reached the Wall at Ackerstrasse. 19.8.1961 Relics older inner wall East B 333 Strelitzer Strasse Kulturinvestitionsprogramm Flucht, zwei Personen B 362 Berlin Wall Memorial B 369 Elisabeth parish ceme tery N B 375 Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin Sophien parish cemetery B 378 www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de B 381 [email protected] Telefon 030 467 9866-66 Telefax 030 467 9866-77 30 m B 349 B 353 B 355 Strasse. When East Berlin police B 360 edge of the roof and tried to get a B 369 B 374 B 378 Escape Tunnels On October 17, 1961, Rudolf K., On December 5, 1961, a 27-year- On the morning of October 25, stormed the apartment, all they On the evening of September 25, foothold on the window below. On August 11, 1971, the border In September 1962, a border On May 5, 1980, East German Two escape tunnels were located a transport worker, was assigned old man was able to flee to the 1961, residents of the building at found was a rope hanging from 1961, Rudolf B. fled with his wife But he missed the window cross troops arrested a person on troop patrol discovered a hole in police arrested a person at Acker- in exhibition area B. Both were to assist in the apartment evic- West from the first floor of the Ackerstrasse 42, which did not the window that had been used to and son from their second-floor and fell down three floors to Ackerstrasse who was trying to the signal fence between Acker- strasse who was suspected of dug beneath the street from the tions on Bernauer Strasse 8. East build ing at Bernauer Strasse 2. stand directly on the border, were drop possessions down to the apartment at Bernauer Strasse 5. the pavement. The man suffered escape. strasse and the Reconciliation trying to escape. basement of a bakery on the west German policemen monitored He managed to reach the border evicted from their apartments. west side. The family slid down a rope from sev eral broken bones and was Church. Footprints led up to the side at Bernauer Strasse 97. The the workers to prevent escapes. houses, most of which had been The curtains were left hanging on their apartment. The border re trieved by a West Berlin ambu- B 370 next fence obstacle. Evidently B 379 first tunnel took five months to Rudolf K. was able to sneak evacuated, by crossing through the windows to cover up the ex- B 358 guards did not notice the escape lance. The evacuation of the border the person had given up there Günter Tr. worked for the Murante complete, but it ended in a coal unnoticed into a room facing backyards unnoticed. He tent of the evictions. The evac u a- The border policeman Lutz M. fled until a group of spectators had houses on Bernauer Strasse because the tracks led back into company in the border area. On depot located directly behind the Bernauer Strasse. He called West knocked a few bricks out of a tion of all buildings on Bernauer to the West through a window gathered and the firemen arrived. B 364 began on the morning of Septem- the rear border area. the morning of September 6, 1961, border fortifications. The tunnel Berlin policemen over and they walled-up window, squeezed him- Strasse that were lo cated directly at Bernauer Strasse 1 on October On October 7, 1961, border guards ber 24, 1961.
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