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NEW - The Zipline Escape East German Guards Mistook for a Spy Mission
Berlin Wall escapes required impossible choices between safety and freedom. You're standing in East Berlin, 1965. Your family is hiding in a ministry bathroom with an out of order sign on the door. In a few hours, you'll tie a nylon rope to a flagpole, throw it 120 meters over armed guards, and zipline to West Germany. If the guards realize what you're doing, you go to prison. If the rope fails, you fall to your death.
The border guards watched the entire zipline escape happen. They saw the rope thrown over the wall. They saw bodies sliding across above their heads. They never sounded the…
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