Berlin Wall Escape Sites — Outer Berlin

In March 1963, one of the most daring family escape tunnels was dug beneath a living room in Glienicke/Nordbahn, a small town on Berlin’s northern border. Eleven-year-old Detlef Aagard, his parents, and ten others crawled to freedom through the narrow passage.

Site of some of the earliest successful escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall. On 24 January 1962, 28 people escaped through a tunnel dug by brothers Günter and Bruno Becker from their basement – an event that inspired the film “Tunnel 28.” In May 1962, twelve senior citizens dug a 32-metre tunnel from a chicken […]