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Escaping from East Berlin

How a young West German student helped East Berliners escape communism in the boot of a diplomat's car.

How a young West German student helped East Berliners escape communism at the height of the Cold War. Volker Heinz told Robin Lustig how he worked with a Syrian diplomat to smuggle people across the Berlin Wall in the boot of the diplomat's car. From March to September 1966 the pair managed to help more than 60 people to make the crossing.

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(Photo: East German border guards in 1966 scanning the Berlin Wall. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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