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Radio 4,26 Jan 2014,15 mins

Tunnelling Under the Berlin Wall

Witness History

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In 1964 a group of West German students helped more than 50 people escape from East Berlin through a tunnel that they had dug under the Berlin Wall. Joachim Neumann and Ralph Kabisch were two of the students who did the digging - Joachim's wife Christa was one of the people they helped to flee.

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