Swimming, surfboards, homemade submarines men who aimed to cross the border from the Berlin Wall

Between 1961 and 1989 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall, more than 5,600 East Germans aimed for the coastline of Denmark and 40 km from the Baltic Sea. There are fewer than 1,000 people succeeded in exile, and other exiles are considered dead. Although the story of digging a tunnel to go through the wall of Berlin is famous, the story of the people who aimed at transcending the border from the Baltic Sea, such as swimming, kayaking, surfboards and homemade submarines which had not been talked so far, It is spelled on.

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Since the construction of the Berlin Wall, it has been known that many victims came out as a result of trying asylum, and 138 people who tried to cross the border from Berlin were killed were recorded in the record I will. However, it is said that the number of people who tried to cross the border in Germany as a whole has not been known exactly how many people were killed.

Meanwhile, in BerlinCheckpoint · Charlie MuseumWe have calculated the number of victims independently, and as of 2015 we have created a list of 1720 victims. In addition, the research team of Professor Krauss Schroeder of the University of Berlin is trying to find academically certain numbers by checking records that remain in the east and west of Berlin Wall from 2012, and the two institutions in Berlin By the way, the back side of history is gradually becoming known.

While continuing the survey, the outcome of the East Germans who have followed the harsh exile route is being revealed though it was not reported so far. At that time exiles chosen the route to avoid the cruiser rather than take a straight route so nearly 1000 people escaped across the Baltic Sea. The low salinity Baltic Sea is prone to high waves when bad weather, the number of people drowned in the Baltic Sea is known to be at least 174, but nearly 900 people have successfully exiled across the Baltic Sea Did.


◆ Man exiled after 24 hours swimming
In July 1971, Mr. Peter Dabler swam over the distance of 48 kilometers from Culungsborn of East Germany to Fehmarn's Island of West Germany swimming without rest 24 hours. He seems to have had only the diet tablet and the chocolate bar for nutritional supplements.

◆ men who exiled by rowing a surfboard
In November 1986, Eastern Berliners Karsten Klunder and Dirk Deckert entered the sea on a surfboard with homemade sails from Hiddensee Island. When I got off the coast, I was drunk in a rough sea and the two were separated, but Mr. Klunder reached the island of Denmark and Mr. Deckert was rescued by a Danish fishing boat 24 hours later.


A man who invented homemade submarines
In October 1969 Manfred Burmeister played the most exotic escape. Mr. Burmeister, who was an engineer,Prague springEver since receiving the news, I decided to escape from the East Germany. But Burmeister, who was working at the Berlin radar factory, knew that the sea route was a tough route. So he travels through the ocean, exhaust pipe · car heating and cooling unit · oldMopedWe made a homemade submarine able to breathe with snorkel, which combined a motor of a few months, and completed it.


After successfully testing at the lake he packs the submarine into two suitcases and travels to the westro at the coastal resort area. Mr. Burmeister started diving early in the morning, arrived safely in Gedser Rev in Denmark and was convinced that he got his freedom with his invention.