File Canal – Escape Across The Inner-German Border
A family flees across the inner-German border 20 years fall of the wall. A very exciting escape story in which three generations were involved. In a sewer fled, the 58 year-old Grandpa, his son and daughter-in-law 32 years and his granddaughter, ten years, through the approximately 800 metre long sewer. A test flight was performed before then to get the whole family in the West. In the book will be published Stasiakten which shows the approach of the Stasi and their informants. File channel: A family flees across the inner-German border February 1988. The German Democratic Republic staggers toward their economic and political end, but the intimidation of the people by the State security are unbroken. This book tells the story of a young man of who does not return from a trip to West of Germany, in the hope that you also soon leave his family leaves.
But harassed as he realizes that the authorities demonstrate all their power and the West German policy only helpless can watch as his family in the East due to his flight is, he takes up all his courage. In last despair he plans the biggest thing”his life: the breakthrough of the winner border strip on the East-West German border to reunite his family. What no one suspects at this time: In November 1989, the wall falls! A compelling story of a German reunification with insight into the original Stasiakten. Book recommendation for file channel ISBN-9 783000 268977