Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t.

it says. Alexandra Hildebrandt runs the Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin which tells visitors about people who escaped from the former East Germany and how others demonstrated ...

Helena Merriman tells the extraordinary true story of a man who dug a tunnel right under the feet of Berlin Wall border guards to help friends, family and strangers escape.

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their ...