Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Tunnel. It was engineered by 30 volunteer workers, many of them university students, who had managed earlier to escape from East Germany. From the basement of an abandoned bakery at 97 Bernauer Strasse, in West Berlin's French sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times...
After nearly six months of steady work, the tunnel was completed. In three nights 57 East Germans-many of them relatives of the diggers who had been notified in advance by couriers-crawled to West Berlin. Just as the last group had entered the passage, two strangers came up to its entrance in East Berlin, pretending that they and some friends wanted to join the great escape. The "friends" turned out to be Communist cops who had been tipped off by informers. Four of the diggers who had guarded the tunnel entrance managed to get back to West Berlin-after...
...blocks west of the Bernauer Strasse tunnel, where 57 East Berliners crawled to freedom last week, an escape of another sort was taking place. Concocted of cigar smoke and the reek of raw schnapps, a blur of spinning spokes and the beat of a brass band, this form of escape goes by the name of "Sportpalast Fever," and can be indulged in once a year when Berlin holds its famed, phantasmagoric Six-Day Bicycle Race...
Coop spokesmen said that use of an existing tunnel under Palmer St. between the main building and the present annex would make the transfer of material difficult...
They explained that arriving goods would first have to be moved to the new annex's fourth floor for storage; then, when needed, the goods would have to be taken down to the basement, through the tunnel, and then back up to a higher floor of the main building...