1 July 1973 · Hidden in vehicles
Two Turkish West Berliners with an East German hidden in their car at Drewitz
Two Turkish citizens living in West Berlin were arrested at Drewitz trying to bring an East German into West Berlin hidden in their car.
At 11.35 p.m. on 1 July 1973 the GDR control at the Drewitz crossing arrested two Turkish citizens living in West Berlin, one born in Ankara in 1946 and the other in Karpuz in 1939, as they tried to take an East German to West Berlin hidden in their car.
They and the East German were remanded in custody. The report gives no further details.
Sources
Whose account is this? Told from a GDR record only: documents of the GDR’s police, Stasi or border troops. No other account of the event is cited.
GDR records
- Information Nr. 618/73 über die Verhinderung der Ausschleusung von DDR-BürgernDDR im Blick (Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv)
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