A fiancée in a suitcase on a motorcycle at the old Drewitz crossing
Around 1968 a young man from West Germany brought his East German fiancée across the old Drewitz crossing into West Berlin hidden in a suitcase on his motorcycle. The suitcase is now in the collection of the Checkpoint Bravo memorial at Dreilinden.
This is a reported escape. It appears in a reputable publication, but its key details could not be checked against a second source. See the note below.
The Checkpoint Bravo memorial at the former Drewitz–Dreilinden crossing keeps an 'escape suitcase'. According to its catalogue entry, a young man from West Germany carried his fiancée from the GDR across the border into West Berlin in it, on a motorcycle.
The escape succeeded at the old Drewitz crossing, before it was replaced by the new checkpoint building on 15 October 1969. The catalogue dates the object to about 1968 and names neither of the two.
Sources
Whose account is this? Told from historical research only.
Historians and memorials
- Fluchtkoffer (museum-digital:brandenburg, object 45838)Checkpoint Bravo – Erinnerungs- und Begegnungsstätte Grenzkontrollpunkt Drewitz-Dreilinden
Facts checked against the sources: November 2026
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Berlin Experiences, “A fiancée in a suitcase on a motorcycle at the old Drewitz crossing”, Berlin Wall Escapes, 2026, https://berlinwallescapes.com/escapes/drewitz-motorcycle-suitcase-fiancee-1968/ (accessed [date]).
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