bkxxhhdd out difficulty. The border soldiers on the watchtower at Ruppiner Strasse did not notice him until he was on the Wall. They wanted to fire at him, but were unable to get the window open. By the time they had broken the window pane and fired a salve, the man was already in the West. D 414 Renate L., a secretary for the East Berlin housing construction ad- West min istration, was accompanied Representation Mauerpark D 409: Bullet holes in a West by an East Berlin police officer of the border wall Berlin apartment, 1965 when she inspected the building Representation of the border wall at Bernauer Strasse 31. When she D 409 D 411 briefly found herself alone and Commemorative column At about five o’clock in the morn- Klaus-Peter K. was arrested by unobserved in the backyard, she Representation for Olga Segler Commemorative Commemorative column of the border wall column for for Ida Siekmann ing on January 4, 1965, a man, border troops on December 14, seized the moment. She fled Bernd Lünser approximately 25 years old, suc- 1973. He had tried to flee to West through the front door that had Berlin Wall Memorial ceeded in fleeing not far from Berlin from Brunnenstrasse. He not yet been sealed up and ran to Ruppiner Strasse. He had a wire was apprehended along the West Berlin. M 10 cutter with him, as well as a rope patrol road after having gotten Area D: M Bernauer Strasse Location of “Tunnel 29” Bernauer Strasse M M 10 D 417: Contacts after the Wall was Wolliner Strasse ladder and a heaving line, when past the inner wall and the signal D 415 erected, Bernauer Strasse 34, U2 D 427 D 429 D 430 D 439 D 443 he entered the border area un- fence. Ulla D. and Hans K. fled to the August 29, 1961 D 418 D 417 D 415 D 423 D 422 D 441 Eberswalder Strasse Everyday Life at the Wall D 412 D 414 D 416 D 409 D 434 D 433 D 445 D 447 D 448 D 442 D 446 noticed. The border guards did West on the evening of Septem- D 436 D 438 D 444 U U8 D 413 D 419 not detect him until he set off the D 412 ber 3, 1961. Under false pre- D 417 D 420 Orientation model alarm on the signal fence. They Frieda Schulze had lived at Bern- tences, they managed to pass After the border closed on August Orientation map U Bernauer Strasse Patrol road Patrol road C currently not currently not D 424 D opened fire, but the fugitive had auer Strasse 29 since the end of through the security and enter the 13, 1961, the residents of the bor- accessible accessible taken cover behind a screen and the war. In late August, just after border house at Bernauer Strasse der houses were not per mitted and incident markers D 411 D 421 Patrol road D 431 D 410 Representation was not hit. He managed to climb the Wall was built, she was forced 37. They broke into the apartment to maintain relations with people over the Wall to West Berlin un- to move from her ground-floor of family M., which had already on the west side. But con tact con D 435 D 432 D 440 Patrol road of an escape tunnel, 1963 - Building facade D 425 D 428 harmed. A number of bullets, apartment into an apartment on left for the West, and jumped out tinued to exist never the less. D 426 D 437 Exhibition Relics of the Building however, flew into West Berlin the first floor. The 77-year old the window. Food and gifts were ex changed Representation Building facade Building console Relics of the Oderberger Strasse territory. Some entered the bed- widow fled when the large scale through windows or using ropes. inner wall of the signal fence Building Station: inner wall facade facade facade room of a resident who was building evacuations began on D 416 If the transaction was noticed, Representation The Wall in Politics Station: asleep in bed at the time. September 24, 1961. The firemen Selma P. and her son Peter W. had however, residents had to reckon of the signal fence Schönholzer Strasse Station: The Border Soldiers The Cold War and the Media Kremmener Strasse Station: spread out a rescue net beneath lived on the third floor of Bernauer with a punishment or in some The Berlin Wall and its Fall D 410 the window. Frieda Schulze first Strasse 35 since the end of the cases an eviction. Station: Station: Representation Station: at Schwedter Strasse On the evening of September 7, threw her cat down, along with a war. They began to think about The Wall and West Berlin Escape Agents and Tunnel of the patrol road Observing, Helping, Protecting. 1966, the border guard on Swine- few small possessions. She leaving East Germany after the D 418 Builders The Western View of the Wall münder Strasse noticed a man climbed onto the window sill but Wall was erected. They informed On the evening of September 29, climbing over the inner fence at was too scared to jump. West relatives in the West that they 1961, a resident of Bernauer Schönholzer Strasse. His super- Berlin teenagers climbed up the were planning to flee on the night Strasse 30 reported that West Kindly supported by visor chased after the man and facade and tried to help her. In the before September 22. Peter W. Berlin police were loading objects fired at him. The fugitive, Klaus N., meantime, East Berlin policemen barricaded the door of the apart- onto a car in front of her building. took cover behind an anti-tank had broken into the apartment ment. Then they waited for the East Berlin police discovered an obstacle. The border soldiers and were trying to pull her back firemen, who arrived at 2:30 in the opening in the bricked-up base- Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung Wolliner StrasseWolliner Brunnenstrasse Strasse Ruppiner Strasse Swinemünder der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur (GRW)“ assumed that he had been hit and inside. They also threw teargas morning. After throwing their pos- ment window of family D’s apart- Rheinsberger Strasse Rheinsberger Strasse wanted to arrest him, but he grenades at the West Berlin fire- sessions out the window, Selma ment. Gerhard D., his wife and Schwedter Strasse mana ged to climb over the inner men. Frieda Schulze finally fell P. jumped into the rescue net and both daughters had fled through wall unnoticed and escape back into the rescue net. injured her lower back. Neighbors the basement window to the into East Berlin. An East German who had observed the escape West. policeman who had watched the D 413 alerted the nearby border guards. escape attempt from his apart- At about one o’clock in the morn- But before they were able to D 419 ment arrested Klaus N. on Brun- ing on October 27, 1968, a man break into the apartment, Peter W. On the evening of August 24, nenstrasse. used a folding ladder to climb jumped, injuring himself only 1961, Detlef M. and Herbert Z. at- East over the inner fence that stood slightly. temp ted to climb over the Wall to Kulturinvestitionsprogramm next to the building at Schön hol- the West at the corner of Schön- zer Strasse 8. He crept along the holzer and Ruppiner Strasse. 29.9.1961 Berlin Wall Memorial gable wall until he reached the They were arrested by border N Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin signal fence, which he was able to D 418 guards and handed over to the www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de climb over without triggering the Flucht Familie D. East German police. [email protected] alarm. He pulled the ladder be- Telefon 030 467 9866-66 hind him and ran to the border Telefax 030 467 9866-77 wall, which he also climbed with- 60 m D 420 D 424 D 429 D 431 knocked him down with a shovel. had reached the building by D 441 D 443 Escape Tunnels Three more escape tunnels were On June 19, 1962, West Berlin Jan-Michael G. wanted to flee at The border troops set up an On the evening of October 6, Then Jörg S., Erich E. and W. ran cross ing over rooftops from Rainer P. and the former border Following a fight with his wife on At least seven escape tunnels built on the northeast end of police heard three shots fired at Ruppiner Strasse where gates in observation post at Bernauer 1961, border police arrested Anita towards the Wall. When the head Rheinsberger Strasse. The officer Uwe W. planned their the evening of January 28, 1966, existed in exhibition area D, but Bernauer Strasse in 1962 – 1963. Ruppiner Strasse. Shortly there- the inner wall and signal fence Strasse 44 to enable the guards L. and Erna M. in the attic of the guard recovered from the blow, woman lost her footing as she escape in May 1977. They had Manfred B. made the spon tan- only one of them was successful. In late 1962, escape helpers after cries of pain were heard, allowed border troops to pass to observe activity on Bernauer building at Swinemünder Strasse he set off a border alarm by firing passed by the third floor. She inspected the situation along the eous decision to flee. He first West Berlin students dug “Tunnel stopped working on a ten-meter- presumably from a wounded through.