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Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t.

Jay Kinra and Tunnel 29, the famous escape route built under the Berlin Wall. Courtesy/bild via Getty Images ...

After the wall was erected, Joachim Rudolph made a daring escape from East Berlin. Then he went back to save his friends.

After the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, desperate Germans trapped inside East Germany tried many creative ways to escape to the West, often with deadly consequences — the guards shot to kill. But ...

Joachim Rudolph fled East Berlin himself, but wasn't content: He dug a massive tunnel to help free 29 more from the Soviets, including his future wife, a new book reveals. Joachim Rudolph; Getty ...

A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall, helping 29 people to escape. Images from the daring project became world-famous.

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public this month for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s ...