Tour M Special – Underground to Freedom with Contemporary Witness Burkhart Veigel

About this Event

Since the SED regime erected the Berlin Wall in August 1961, there were repeated attempts to cross the deadly barriers underground — either through the city’s sewer system or via self-dug tunnels — in order to reach freedom. The first tunnel project “ran” in October 1961, and the last one failed in 1982. In total, more than 70 escape tunnel projects were actually started, but only 19 of them were successful. There were spectacular successes, acts of betrayal, and bitter failures.