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On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of the German capital of Berlin awoke to find their city divided. At midnight, thousands of East German troops had fanned out across the city tearing up roads, erecting guard posts, and stringing barbed-wire barriers. The 43-kilometre border dividing communist East Berlin from the capitalist West had been sealed shut. Over the following decades, this temporary barricade would evolve into a formidable fortification of concrete, barbed wire, and armed guards. For 28 years, the Berlin Wall stood as a potent symbol of the Cold War, dividing families, shattering lives, and trapping millions in the oppressive German Democratic Republic. But many East German citizens refused to accept their fate. Between 1961 and 1989, some 5,000 people escaped over the border into the West, with 140 losing their lives in the attempt. Their methods were varied and frequently ingenious, reflecting the escapees’ unshakable will to find freedom and opportunity for

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