There were numerous escape attempts and victims of the inner German border during its 45 years of existence from 1945 to 1990.
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| - There were numerous escape attempts and victims of the inner German border during its 45 years of existence from 1945 to 1990.
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| - Boot modified with metal hooks to enable the wearer to climb the border fence
- East German Army diagram detailing numbers of escape attempts on the inner German border, 1974–1979
- West German memorial to Helmut Kleinert, shot dead on the border on 1 August 1963.
- Ladder used to climb the signal fence on the inner German border near Hötensleben
- Failed escapees: two men captured at Ahrenshoop in 1981 while attempting to swim across the Baltic Sea.
- The body of Peter E., killed by an anti-personnel mine on the inner German border near Unterweid in 1968.
- The driver of this car was killed when he attempted to ram through the Marienborn border crossing point in the 1980s.
- East German memorial to border guard Waldemar Estel, killed by "imperialist agents" on 3 September 1956.
- Failed escapees: a man and a woman captured in a car boot at the Marienborn border crossing point.
- Home-made submarine used in an unsuccessful escape attempt in August 1979
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- Damaged metal plaque reading "Am 3.9.1956 wurde WALDEMAR ESTEL Getreiter der Grenztruppen der NVA in Ausübung seine Dienstes an der Staatsgrenze von Agenten des Imperialismus ermordet. Sein Tod ist uns Verpflichtung."
- Photograph of a ladder standing on bare earth next to a stretch of fence topped with barbed wire. A second ladder lies beside it on the ground.
- A badly mutilated corpse lying on its back in a field, with debris from a mine explosion in the foreground.
- Schematic diagram of the East German border fortifications with annotations on the number of people getting past each layer of the fortifications.
- Close-up view of a boot which has been modified with a hooked overshoe, shown on a section of border fence to demonstrate how it would have been used to climb the fence.
- Two young men dressed in wetsuits with masks and snorkels.
- Stern of a submersible vessel showing the propeller and a circular opening or hatch for the occupant.
- A man and a woman look out from a car boot as their escape attempt is discovered by East German border guards.
- A Lada car embedded in a border crossing barrier, which has ripped off the bonnet and crushed the front portion of the passenger compartment as far back as the driver's seat.
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- Helmut kleinert memorial.jpg
- Waldemar estel memorial.jpg
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| - There were numerous escape attempts and victims of the inner German border during its 45 years of existence from 1945 to 1990.
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