KASSEL, West Germany: ‘A young east German couple escaped to west Germany over the heavily fortified inter German Frontier, a Federal Border Police spokesman said.
He said the couple, who lived in a village close to the frontier, had managed to scale the border fortifications and barbed wire barricades.
The couple then found a telephone box to contact Local Police Central State of Hesse, the spokesman said.
They told police that they had fled cast Germany because they were dissatisfied with their standard of living as well as the political climate, he added.
Earlier, an east German family escaped to west Berlin by driving a truck through the barriers at checkpoint Charlie, the main crossing between the east and the western halves of the city for allied military Personnel, diplomats and non-Germans.
To family a man, woman and child were later interviewed by United States officials responsible for security in that sector of west Berlin and were expected to be given emergency accommodation at a reception center.
Article extracted from this publication >>September 5, 1986
