Berlin Wall Escapes1961–1989

14 December 1973 · Over the wall · Bernauer Straße

Klaus-Peter K. is caught on the patrol road

Klaus-Peter K. got over the inner wall and the signal fence at Brunnenstraße but was arrested at the patrol road.

Sunny street corner with a grass strip and path in front, low apartment buildings behind, and on the right a white gable wall labelled 'Bernauer Straße' with a large black-and-white mural and a row of photo panels.
The corner of Bernauer Straße and Brunnenstraße in April 2022, now part of the Berlin Wall Memorial Photo: Francesco Adami. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

On 14 December 1973 Klaus-Peter K. tried to escape to West Berlin at Brunnenstraße.

He got over the inner wall and past the signal fence and reached the Kolonnenweg, the patrol road the guards used inside the strip.

Close-up of a pavement: a double row of cobblestones set between grey paving slabs, with a metal plate in the row reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961 - 1989'.
A double row of cobbles with a plate reading 'Berliner Mauer 1961–1989' marks the line of the Wall across Brunnenstraße (2018) Photo: Andrzej Otrębski. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

There the border troops arrested him.

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