60+ Berliner Mauer Tunnel

The cold war in the underground.

Berliner mauer tunnel. It was finished in january 1964. Berliner mauer pronounced bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ ɐ listen was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided berlin from 1961 to 1989. There was a shaft it was maybe three meters deep and then a tunnel began that was braced by a triangular profile with inserted nuts. The tunnel was a 90 minute black and white documentary film that chronicled how three west berlin university students organized the escape of 26 friends and family members by digging a tunnel underneath the berlin wall from a former factory in west berlin into the communist east.

In 1961 jutta witt lives next to the s bahn line in prenzlauer berg. Berliner mauer was a wall that separated the city of berlin in germany from 1961 to 1989. It was replaced by new buildings in the 1970s. The berlin wall was taken down on november 9 1989.

It separated the eastern half from the western half. From germania to the downfall. Reunification and tunnel opening. West berlin students have dug a tunnel to east berlin at bernauer strasse.

The first tunnel took five months to build. Many people thought it was a symbol of the cold war. A spectacular mass escape. It is one hundred and forty five metres long and goes as deep as 12 metres below the earth.

It might have been seven or seventeen. When she wakes up on 13 august everything seems just a little too quiet. Die berliner mauer 1988 duration. The tunnels began in the basement of a bakery at bernauer straße 97 located on the west side of the city.

The berlin wall german. When we joined the tunnel was just a few meters long i can t recall anymore how long maybe ten meters but i can t say for sure. She soon realises that the s bahn station schönhauser allee has been closed overnight and turns on the radio to discover that east berlin has been sealed off. Construction of the wall was commenced by the german democratic republic gdr east germany on 13 august 1961.

Jutta quickly heads to the nearby gleim tunnel her usual route over to the. Produced by reuven frank and narrated by piers anderton it was an nbc white paper installment that was broadcast. The berlin wall german. Einer der letzten ddr fluchttunnel wurde vor kurzem in berlin wiederentdeckt.

Tour m under the berlin wall.